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Sobig II?

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Since 7am, I've received at least 200 Sobig induced messages. They are coming in at a rate that exceeds what I was seeing last week.
Is this a second wave?
[Update: 10:22am - I've received well over 500 now! No sign of slowing down.]

See this post as it first appeared on Blogware.

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  1. (name not saved), August 28, 2003

    Hope you got your spam filter set up to filter them away, that's what I did ;-)

  2. (name not saved), August 28, 2003

    Uggh. Looks like another wave. I just added four more "big offenders" to my block list. These are machines that have sent 100+ infected messages since midnight. I'm blocking them at the firewall to try and take some load off the mail server, which is still gasping for air. So far today I've trapped over 3,000 infected messages (compared to about 50 on a normal day).