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
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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."

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

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