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SWEN virus/worm now posing as bounced email
You lucky duck. I've received at least 700 of them since Thursday night!
Debbie "jamie" wrote in message ... 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. |
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SWEN virus/worm now posing as bounced email
I have no idea how many I get, as my box fills up within an hour (50
or 60 plus attatchments), and has been doing so since the dam broke. Most of them are not addressed to me, even. revek "Debbie Cusick" wrote in message ... You lucky duck. I've received at least 700 of them since Thursday night! Debbie "jamie" wrote in message ... 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. |
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SWEN virus/worm now posing as bounced email
revek wrote:
:: I have no idea how many I get, as my box fills up within an hour (50 :: or 60 plus attatchments), and has been doing so since the dam broke. :: Most of them are not addressed to me, even. :: $20 solves the problem. |
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SWEN virus/worm now posing as bounced email
"Roger Zoul" wrote in message ... revek wrote: :: I have no idea how many I get, as my box fills up within an hour (50 :: or 60 plus attatchments), and has been doing so since the dam broke. :: Most of them are not addressed to me, even. :: $20 solves the problem. To create a bigger box? Just would fill up even faster, if not with worms then spam. My addresss is not munged. No worries, though, I have several. revek |
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SWEN virus/worm now posing as bounced email
:: I have no idea how many I get, as my box fills up within an hour (50
:: or 60 plus attatchments), and has been doing so since the dam broke. :: Most of them are not addressed to me, even. I've had to stop saving messages to my server (for reading at work) because my maximum space is filled up within less than one hour. Started receiving warnings from my ISP. This happened before to another address I have. I unfortunately (somehow??) launched a worm virus at work and crashed the computer. Now, the store management suite is screwed up. ARGH!!! And I used Norton Antivirus!!! Funny, doesn't seem to happen at home (via cable connection). ~Carol Ann www.lowcarblosers.com ~ Home of the Monthly Weightloss Challenge |
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SWEN virus/worm now posing as bounced email
revek wrote:
:: "Roger Zoul" wrote in message :: ... ::: revek wrote: ::::: I have no idea how many I get, as my box fills up within an hour ::::: (50 or 60 plus attatchments), and has been doing so since the dam ::::: broke. Most of them are not addressed to me, even. ::::: ::: ::: $20 solves the problem. :: :: To create a bigger box? ? No....to keep a smaller inbox by keep stuff on the server and deleting it there. Spamsubtract (i.e, my other post) Just would fill up even faster, if not with :: worms then spam. My addresss is not munged. No worries, though, I :: have several. :: :: revek |
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SWEN virus/worm now posing as bounced email
"Roger Zoul" wrote in message
... revek wrote: :: "Roger Zoul" wrote in message :: ... ::: revek wrote: ::::: I have no idea how many I get, as my box fills up within an hour ::::: (50 or 60 plus attatchments), and has been doing so since the dam ::::: broke. Most of them are not addressed to me, even. ::::: ::: ::: $20 solves the problem. :: :: To create a bigger box? ? No....to keep a smaller inbox by keep stuff on the server and deleting it there. Um, I'm using yahoo, it already stays on the server. To make it usable with a pop3 reader, I'd have to load some special software that will fetch it for me. revek |
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SWEN virus/worm now posing as bounced email
According to a Microsoft Tech Support Rep I spoke to this morning,
USENET users were the first victims - supposedly the email addresses were mined from USENET groups and mailed out with the virus attached. I did a scan and am clean, but now I'm having two of my yahoo addresses flooded with emails and I've had over 500 emails to one of my addresses. Be careful about this bogus Ebay email that's now going out. I received mine yesterday, it was a good fraud copy, it said that Ebay couldn't verify my information and it needed to be verified so it asked me all my personal information including my SSN#, credit card/ATM number with passwords. I knew it was a fraud so I sent it back with 'URBusted' as my first name and and 'IHopeUlikeJail' as my last name... "Carol Ann" wrote in message news:ZsZab.531034$uu5.86254@sccrnsc04... :: I have no idea how many I get, as my box fills up within an hour (50 :: or 60 plus attatchments), and has been doing so since the dam broke. :: Most of them are not addressed to me, even. I've had to stop saving messages to my server (for reading at work) because my maximum space is filled up within less than one hour. Started receiving warnings from my ISP. This happened before to another address I have. I unfortunately (somehow??) launched a worm virus at work and crashed the computer. Now, the store management suite is screwed up. ARGH!!! And I used Norton Antivirus!!! Funny, doesn't seem to happen at home (via cable connection). ~Carol Ann www.lowcarblosers.com ~ Home of the Monthly Weightloss Challenge |
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SWEN virus/worm now posing as bounced email
I keep stuff on the server and delete it from there, but I have 25M mail
space on the server. At the rate these are coming in that still fills up twice a day and then stops my legitimate email from getting through, so still enough manual intervention involved (to constantly keep checking the server and deleting from there) it would actually be easier almost just to download them all into my delete folder and kill them from here - which I have to do for one of my ID's. But that is the ID I'm registered for usenet under. I never use it for anything since my ISP does not allow me to mung the address in any way, or they won't let you post to usenet. Since it's in the clear I never use it for anything, and KNOW that anything I get to that ID is spam. Well mostly. Occasionally I've gotten an email from an asdlc'er at that address, even though I have my replyto field set up with the email address I use for real people- but that's a rare occasion. One good thing about this worm is that the "from" ID's and "subjects" seem to have a relatively limited number of variations, so it's been easy to set up filters to catch most of them. Debbie "Roger Zoul" wrote in message ... ? No....to keep a smaller inbox by keep stuff on the server and deleting it there. Spamsubtract (i.e, my other post) |
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SWEN virus/worm now posing as bounced email
Well, I can guarantee that is the truth. My ISP does not allow my to modify
my email address in any way for usenet postings. Unless I use the legitimate email address they will not let the email go through. I never use that address for anything other than usenet posting. I also have an address I use for *real* email to friends, etc. I have this one set up in my usenet ReplyTo field. And when the dam broke on this one I began getting flooded with the same identical messages to the both ID's, and it's still continuing. I have gotten about 400-500 on each ID, and they seem to be pretty much clones of one another at all times, so it does seem like both my addresses got harvested at the same time. Debbie "Heather" wrote in message om... According to a Microsoft Tech Support Rep I spoke to this morning, USENET users were the first victims - supposedly the email addresses were mined from USENET groups and mailed out with the virus attached. I did a scan and am clean, but now I'm having two of my yahoo addresses flooded with emails and I've had over 500 emails to one of my addresses. |
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