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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 ... 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 -- Home: http://stephan.win31.de/ | Webm.: http://www.i24.com/ PC#6: i440LX, 2xCel300A, 448 MB, 18 GB, ATI AGP 32 MB, 110W This is a SCSI-inside, Legacy-plus, TCPA-free computer :) Reply to newsgroup only. |
"Stephan Grossklass" wrote in message ... [snip] "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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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. |
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"Frank Dresser" writes: Yes, but I think antivirus software will become less and less useful as more and more computers get high speed connections. - Still, if you set your e-mail to "Download attachments separatly" it'll save you some grief.. Anyway, a little paranoia is a good thing in this case. Thankfully, there's no shortage of that here on rec.radio.shortwave. Wear a NEW aluminum foil hat.. Big shiny one with a Hubcap on top - That fixes em! Haven't been abducted by an Alien yet .. Dan ( Sticking to 56 KB dial - up... ) |
I am getting 40-50 a day, more in overnights (this morning my email was
already maxed out!) |
Jack said:
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:33:05 GMT, "Warpcore" wrote: No, but I got three emails with viral attachments addressed as if they were actually from Microsoft. Got that one, and another variant so far: -------------------- FROM: "Net Mail Delivery Service" TO: "Internet Receiver" SUBJECT: Bug Letter Content-Type: audio/x-wav; name="eleswgt.exe" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Id: vwpiniyrr TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA snip -------------------- Do not open the message - delete it. Ya know, If I hadn't seen this thread, I would have simply deleteted the messages without even a cursory glance -- as spam. You just made me curious. I *love* my ancient outdated email client that doesn't understand HTML and isn't able to open attachments, automatically or otherwise, simply displaying their raw ASCII content in the message body. g I second that motion! I read e-mail with a 1995 version of Eudora Lite. I use Agent for usenet only. I never install any of the Outlook bull****. The only good thing about M$ dominance is that it provides a huge number of victims for the virus writers and crackerz. They focus on the latest useless M$ all-in-one swinging door and leave the rest of us alone. -- Col. I.P. Yurin Commissariat of Internal Security Stakhanovite Order of Lenin (1937) Hero of Socialist Labor (1939) |
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I've had these things at a rate of 3 or 4 a day for months. Yesterday, I got
about 300. "Larry Ozarow" wrote in message ... 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. P. Yurin" wrote:
Jack said: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:33:05 GMT, "Warpcore" wrote: Ya know, If I hadn't seen this thread, I would have simply deleteted the messages without even a cursory glance -- as spam. You just made me curious. I *love* my ancient outdated email client that doesn't understand HTML and isn't able to open attachments, automatically or otherwise, simply displaying their raw ASCII content in the message body. g I second that motion! I read e-mail with a 1995 version of Eudora Lite. I use Agent for usenet only. I never install any of the Outlook bull****. The only good thing about M$ dominance is that it provides a huge number of victims for the virus writers and crackerz. They focus on the latest useless M$ all-in-one swinging door and leave the rest of us alone. I'm another ancient Eudora user. No not me, the email program. :-) It doesn't have a clue what to do with an attachment other than putting it in the designated attachment directory, awaiting further inspection by me. I just delete them unless I'm expecting a specific attachment from someone I know. I've been on the Net for about 8-years without any virus protection software and have never had a virus or worm installed on my system. -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
In article , Jack
writes: Anti-virus software has caught a few potential problems here several times. Agree.. Updated Virus software & firewalls are for me. Having been in DP for decades, I have seen the little icon holding a gremlin ( caught a Virus) once too often... - Or had a frantic call from a freind who'se hard drive was wiped out.. " You have received an Instakiss" - isn't that sweet . . |
Then I go back to the 80's as a BBS sysop
Wow! I had almost forgot, those were the good old days, Commodore 64 and all. Rob Mills ~~~ |
The 64's and 128's served me well until 1994
They were reliable. Think I bailed out in 89 or 90. I had a C128/1084 monitor and four 1571 drives, thought I was strolling in tall cotton the first time I connected with a bulletin board. Rob Mills ~~~ |
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