Not so big

20 Aug 2003

After my rant against white-lists, I’ve since become a victim of the SoBig.F mail virus - someone out there with a Windows machine and me on their mail list is infected (the joys of a mac mean that I’m not in danger of this infecting me), and I’ve been getting between half a dozen to a dozen of the mails an hour at the moment. Unfortunately Apple’s Mail.app won’t let you filter on attachment name, otherwise I’d filter it out. Gah.

Update (11:35 21/8/3): and still they come. I’m sure this is Jamie extracting his revenge for the white list complaints :) Below is an image of my junk folder after about 18 hours, and that doesn’t include the ones that still got through…