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Article: Fast-Growing Sobig Computer Virus Causes Massive Hassle.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- August 22, 2003
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By Reid Kanaley, The Philadelphia In...uirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 22--Brian Clarke fired up his laptop yesterday and got buried in an avalanche of 414 email messages -- most of them generated by this week's latest computer virus, the "Sobig" worm.
"This has just been the biggest pain in the world," said Clarke, who travels the Mid-Atlantic region representing the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity on university campuses. "I like using email, but this makes it ridiculous."
So, how big is Sobig?
Since Monday, the virus has sent itself millions of times over as an attachment to emails with subject lines such as ...