Dawn of the Dead - Hurricane Swen-A
 

Anybody else getting flooded with e-mails from victims
of the the Swen-A virus? I've gotten around 50 of them
since last night and there is still a constant stream.
There's mention of it on the McAfee site and a blurb at
www.theregister.co.uk

No, but I got three emails with viral attachments addressed as if they were
actually from Microsoft. Do not open the message - delete it. Microsoft does
NOT, I repeat NOT send critical updates or patches of any kind to people via
email. I would suggest that users of Outlook Express leave it in Restricted
sites zone and have it set not to allow scripts. I would also suggest
strongly that people get and use a firewall with high security settings. Any
personal information and the PC itself, could be in jeopardy otherwise. FWIW
mm

"Larry Ozarow" wrote in message
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Anybody else getting flooded with e-mails from victims
of the the Swen-A virus? I've gotten around 50 of them
since last night and there is still a constant stream.
There's mention of it on the McAfee site and a blurb at
www.theregister.co.uk


Here's another mention:

http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/swen.shtml

Frank Dresser

Larry Ozarow schrieb:

Anybody else getting flooded with e-mails from victims
of the the Swen-A virus? I've gotten around 50 of them
since last night and there is still a constant stream.

My mailbox does not even fit as many worm mails, thus it was full when I
got up. :( Have now changed my address, but after posting to Usenet with
this in my Reply-To I get some again. Not as many as b4, but still very
annoying...

"I am strictly against death penalty - except for spammers and mail worm
writers, and perhaps programmers of crappy mailers."

Stephan
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Reply to newsgroup only.

"Stephan Grossklass" wrote in message
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"I am strictly against death penalty - except for spammers and mail worm
writers, and perhaps programmers of crappy mailers."

Stephan

Let's not neglect torture. I'm sure there's a reason they didn't have these
e-mail problems back in the Dark Ages.

Frank Dresser

Larry Ozarow wrote:

Anybody else getting flooded with e-mails from victims
of the the Swen-A virus? I've gotten around 50 of them
since last night and there is still a constant stream.
There's mention of it on the McAfee site and a blurb at
www.theregister.co.uk

I've gotten over 100 copies of a 156k virus claiming to
be the latest security patch since yesterday afternoon.

N E V E R open e-mail that you don't recognise;; DELETE IT

Set your e-mail so that downloads ONLY occurr at your command...

BUY Antivirus sftware & keep it updated

In article , Larry Ozarow
writes:


Anybody else getting flooded with e-mails from victims
of the the Swen-A virus? I've gotten around 50 of them
since last night and there is still a constant stream.
There's mention of it on the McAfee site and a blurb at
www.theregister.co.uk

"Fred Garvin" wrote in message
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Nope! I use Linux. I haven't received any of the latest batch anyway.

I love it.



I can see how Linux would be immune to the code written into this virus, but
how would it keep you from being flooded by infected e-mail?

I just got an automated e-mail from an ISP saying "WARNING: YOU WERE SENT A
VIRUS". It also sent to many other addresses. All the addresses I
recognized were also posters to rec.antiques.radio+phono. I suppose one of
their readers got infected. Even guys there with Web TV are getting
flooded.

Frank Dresser

"Diverd4777" wrote in message
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N E V E R open e-mail that you don't recognise;; DELETE IT

Set your e-mail so that downloads ONLY occurr at your command...

BUY Antivirus sftware & keep it updated

Yes, but I think antivirus software will become less and less useful as more
and more computers get high speed connections. This "virus" is a 106 kb
..exe file. 106 kb! And I got 80 of them before AT&T caught up and stopped
distributing it. I would have gotten more, but I blocked e-mail on this
account for a while. And I don't think users can be expected to be able to
update faster than ISPs.

So far, I've got about 300 e-mails, but the attachment isn't available,
anymore. They seem to be coming from only a few ISPs. I don't think many
people are getting fooled by this thing. But there are a few computers out
there pumping out plenty of 106 kb attachments to make up the difference.

Anyway, a little paranoia is a good thing in this case. Thankfully, there's
no shortage of that here on rec.radio.shortwave.

Frank Dresser

Frank Dresser wrote:
"Fred Garvin" wrote in message
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Nope! I use Linux. I haven't received any of the latest batch anyway.

I love it.




I can see how Linux would be immune to the code written into this virus, but
how would it keep you from being flooded by infected e-mail?


It doesn't. I started this thread and I use Linux. I'm not sure
what Fred was getting at. Obviously your operating system can't
prevent you from getting infected mail, but does allow you to
not worry about it - so far, anyway.