Anyone else seeing a radical increase in Sobig?

From: Chip Mefford (cmefford_at_avwashington.com)
Date: 08/19/03

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    Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:49:22 -0400
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    As of ~0930 GMT -5, we started seeing a large
    group of emails containing Win32/Sobig.F@mm
    more in the last 2 hours than we've seen in the
    last 4 months. Comming from different netblocks
    as well.

    Anyone else seeing this?

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