Hi EQF. I would help if you give information as to what the problem is or what this virus/worm is supposed to do. The message you posted doesn’t tell anyone anything. Take Care…Don in creepy town

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Security experts race to beat Sobig

Reuters
August 22, 2003, 9:02 AM PT

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Computer security experts raced to beat the clock Friday as the super-potent Sobig.F e-mail virus threatened to unleash a crippling barrage of data across the Internet.
A frantic global hunt was under way from the United States to South Korea to find and switch off 20 home computers with high-speed broadband connections that were due to be targeted by hundreds of thousands of computers infected by Sobig.F at 12 p.m. PDT Friday.

Security experts discovered only late on Thursday that the Sobig.F virus, which has sown panic since Monday by infecting Windows systems and using them to send a deluge of junk mail, was harboring a sinister secret.

Hidden within the virus is an instruction to the infected machines to make contact at 12 p.m. PDT with the 20 computers, which host an unidentified program.

"The problem is, we don't know what that program is. It could mean a smiley face dances across your screen or it could be something massive," said Carole Theriault, an antivirus consultant at Sophos. "It's still under the control of the virus writer."

Even if the mystery program is a harmless gag, the sheer volume of Internet data converging on the 20 computer targets could slow the Internet to a crawl.

The time trigger is set to be activated again at the same time on Sunday, Aug. 24.