Okay, so let me make sure I understand- the six or seven emails in my inbox
titled Postmaster are likely the result of a worm, as are the emails from MS
Corporation Tech. Assistance that claim to have a security patch?

I haven't opened any of them, because I was suspicious. I only use that
address for USENET, and I have no one in my address book. Also, the address
is very new, and I was wondering how on earth Microsoft got a hold of it so
fast.

Jake.


"jamie" wrote in message
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Would everyone who uses Outlook please patch up their systems, and every
Windows user who is not *absolutely* sure that their antivirus is up to
date, please get an update and scan your machine.

I received more than 200 copies of SWEN worm/virus emails in the last
24 hours, coming from about twenty infected PCs, all coming to the
email address I use only for newsgroups.

Fortunately, I don't use Windows, so I don't have to worry about
infection, but as almost all the posting I do is to ASD or ASDLC, I expect
most of the infected users picked up my address in their addressbook by
responding to me in these two groups.

This is a variant of one of the viruses whose email posed as a Microsoft
patch. Now it's posing as faux bounced (returned) email messages.

(I might add it does a very poor job of looking anything like actual
bounced mail, except for the subject line.)

--
jamie )

"There's a seeker born every minute."