The good news is, is that SoBig will stop running on September 10th.
The bad news is, this means that the virus creator(s) know there stuff and are working on even bigger plans.
There using viruses for spam warfare now.
If the user(s) that got infected have you in their address book, or what have you, it does not matter if your on a Mac, Amiga, Linux, Windows, whatever. As long as you have email access, your going to get flooded with random emails from the infected user(s).
So this is not only a virus. But this is taking it to a whole new level of disaster.
The only thing that I can tell is this. The people that are mostly getting affected are the ones that share jokes and hoaxes and files back and forth to eachother via emails.
I have one other solution besides keeping yourself protected with Anti-Virus software, the latest virus definitions and a firewall. If your receiving alot of these emails with purported viruses. Email everyone in your address book and tell them of the situation, tell them that if they go to
www.symantec.com or another site they can download the removal tool for the sobig virus. And they can run it to see if there infected. And then tell them all to install virus scan software on their systems and update there definitions.
