Jake
September 20th, 2003, 02:36 AM
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."
>
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."
>