Re: exploit MIME.gen.exe

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 02/15/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 13:43:19 -0500

You need to install IE6 SP1 and *all* MS Critical Updates.

In addition:
If you post to UseNet with your TRUE, not a munged, email address then you have invited the
Swen Internet worm [aka; W32/Gibe-F] to visit you.

The Swen is news spelled backwards. The reason it is called this is because the Swen worm
harvests email addresses from UseNet News Groups. It has an engine that allows it to post
itself to UseNet News Groups as well as it has its own email engine. From the list of
email addresses that it has harvested, it will then email itself to those addresses.

Dave

"marvin" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:100f901c3f3f2$7943fd80$a101280a@phx.gbl...
| >-----Original Message-----
| >hi-
| >i recently uninstalled mcafee spam killer.
| i installed poptray and spampal.
| in poptray i got error messages about the header of
| the email message.
| today mcafee virus scan caught the virus above
| mcafee directed me to a patch for ie explorer.
| the only patch available is for 5.0 or 5.5. I have
| 6.0 version of IE.
| what should i do? is the problem poptray or not
| having the patch for ie explorer.
| please Cc me at j_marvin@localnet.com when you reply
| to my post.
| thanks!
| marvin
|
|

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