Re: Receiving emails like "MS Security Storage" repeatedly!!!

From: Gui Xie (g-xie_at_jaist.ac.jp)
Date: 09/20/03 

Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:07:28 -0700

Now I've infected by the worm. I run Norton Antivirus to scan the system,
but cannot clear the worm. I am continuing to receive junk emails. It seems
I cannot delete the worm. Should I reinstall the OS completely? Is there any
other good method to delete the worm?

"Dave" <dave@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:vmn78lrrtj9d7c@corp.supernews.com...
> It's another email worm. All you can do is download the crap and delete
it.
> Whatever you do don't open it. Here is some more info:
> http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.swen.a@mm.html
>
> I've gotten 1210 such message in less than 4 hours, all with 104KB
> atttachments. My advice is don't ever use your real email address in a
> public forum, not even an address that is modified to fool robots scanning
> for email addresses. The people who write these programs are making
> *serious* efforts to cause as much disruption as possible.
>
> - Dave
>
> "Gui Xie" <g-xie@jaist.ac.jp> wrote in message
> news:bkf1q8$t25$1@jaist-news.jaist.ac.jp...
> > I am receiving emails with senders such as "MS Customer Bulletin",
> "Admin",
> > "MS Network Security Support"...
> > I am crazy about it.
> >
> > How can I stop it?
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> >
>
>

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