Re: receiving loads of emails but no virus?

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 02/07/04 

Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 13:43:57 -0700

Greetings --

    What you received is the output of a computer infected by one of
several widely publicized, wide-spread, mass emailing worms. The
virus' authors have deliberately spoofed the Microsoft information in
the hopes of garnering more victims. This sort of email has been
quite common for at least the past 9 months. The most widely-known
are:

W32.Swen.A_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.swen.a@mm.html

W32.Dumaru_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.dumaru@mm.html

W32.Gibe_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.gibe@mm.html

Trojan.Xombe
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.xombe.html

   Microsoft never has, does not currently, and very probably never
will email unsolicited security patches. At the most, if, and only
if, you subscribe to their security notification newsletter, they will
send you an email informing you that a new patch is available for
downloading.

Microsoft Policies on Software Distribution
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/policy/swdist.asp

Information on Bogus Microsoft Security Bulletin Emails
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/news/patch_hoax.asp

How to Tell If a Microsoft Security-Related Message Is Genuine
http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/authenticate_mail.asp

    Remember, any and all legitimate patches and updates are readily
available at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. You should develop
the habit of checking this site at least once a month to keep your
computer up-to-date. (Notice that this is the true URL, rather than
the bogus one that may have been contained in the email you received.)
Any messages that point to any other source(s) or claim to have the
patch attached are bogus.

       You're receiving these emails because your email address is in
the address book of someone infected with a worm, and/or because you
posted your real email address somewhere on-line, either in a forum
accessible to the public and spambots, such as Usenet, or on an
untrustworthy web site that subsequently sold your address as part of
a mailing list. One thing you can do is notify _everyone_ with whom
you've ever corresponded via email that one or more of them may be
infected with a mass emailing worm, and should take the appropriate
steps.

Bruce Chambers 

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"lenny" <lenny1097@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message
news:40254448$0$21308$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com...
> Hi
>
> Over the last 2 weeks or so I have been receiving over 200 emails a
day most
> with an attached virus.
> I haven't ever opened one and I have also checked with Symantec
antivirus
> corporate edition virus checker. I don't have a virus on my
computer. All of
> the emails are coming to one address which hasn't been available for
very
> long (about 6 months)
>
> Do you think that I have the virus or could it just be that someone
with my
> address has it and I am getting all the emails. A couple of
colleagues are
> getting the same problem but by no means everyone that I know.
>
> Any thoughts on this one would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers
> Lenny
>
>

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