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Old September 20th 03, 09:36 PM
Ed Price
 
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There is a major net attack in progress. The Swen worm can bug even
well-protected computers, since the payload arrives as a 106 kB email
attachment. If your mailbox has a 10 MB capacity, then all you need is 90+,
and you admin will automatically start bouncing ALL your incoming mail. In
effect, a Denial of Service fringe benefit for the worm.

In addition to trying to look like an official MS announcement, the worm is
also arriving in the form of a fake notice of undeliverable email. Don't
investigate ANY attachments unless you want to live very dangerously.

Ed
WB6WSN


"J. McLaughlin" wrote in message
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YES. MB worth. So many that E-mail drive was filled on Friday. Just
received five in a five minute period.
Not hard to trap, however they are quite a pain. Have yet to get
ISP to block them.
Good luck. Mac N8TT

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"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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Is anyone else being deluged with Virus/Worm email messages?
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73, Cecil
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