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SWEN virus/worm now posing as bounced email
Oh, and by the way, according to Mcafee and trend micro, I'm clean.
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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SWEN virus/worm now posing as bounced email
I use Yahoo as mailbox and I sent a few "This is Spam" messages back to them.
So far today, there have been none sent to my inbox. Hope the blitz is over... Best, Donna |
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SWEN virus/worm now posing as bounced email
Donna wrote:
I use Yahoo as mailbox and I sent a few "This is Spam" messages back to them. So far today, there have been none sent to my inbox. Hope the blitz is over... Best, Donna That is NOT a good strategy. Frequently these things are sent from forged addresses. The person whose address you see is a totally innocent bystander. If you send anything back, you are just compounding the problem. Recently, with the SoBig whatever (I think that was the one), I was getting over 500 such messages a day, even though my MY computer was clean. DON'T DO THAT!!!! If you must, please at least first check thoroughly to see how the virus or worm picks up addresses. -- Jean B., 12 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
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