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Old September 20th, 2003, 02:35 AM
Jake
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Default SWEN virus/worm now posing as bounced email

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
...
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."



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Old September 20th, 2003, 10:35 AM
Dr. Doe
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Default SWEN virus/worm now posing as bounced email



"Jake" wrote in message
...
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.



Go here...
http://www.mailwasher.net/
Get mailwasher and set it up.
It washes Hotmail too but not AOL yet.
It's a free download..or you can get the pro version
and either pay for it or go get a crack for it here
http://astalavista.box.sk/
do a search for mailwasher pro
Best thing on the market and you can see all the email
that is sent to you and delete it before it gets to your puter.
Enjoy




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Old September 21st, 2003, 03:34 AM
Supergoof
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Default SWEN virus/worm now posing as bounced email

Jake wrote ...
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.


Micro$oft never send out emails about security patches. They assume you'll
have the update thingy turned on and find out about new patches that way. If
you get such an email, assume it's a virus.

I haven't had any dodgy emails but that's probably something to do with
having a munged email addy so I'm not in anyone's address books.

I use Mailwasher which checks my mail accounts on the pop3 server and I can
choose who are friends and who should be blacklisted, and the blacklisted
ones get bounced. If I think I have a potentially harmful email from someone
who appears to be a friend, I can check the message text and delete it if
necessary. Saves me downloading all that crap.

I got totally bombarded at work over the last month or so with the damn
sobig and blaster stuff. Between the virus emails and the bounces from all
and sundry, I was probably averaging about 50 per day. That's in addition to
all the spam.

blah

A good antivirus programme goes a long way )


Rachel
(New Zealand)


 




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