Re: I would like to report a virus
From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 02/28/04
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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:01:22 -0700
Greetings --
Actually, your problem is entirely self-inflicted.
It's been well known for years now that posting/publishing a real
email address to _any_ newsgroup, as you have done repeatedly, or web
site is an open initiation to
be spammed. For years now, spammers have been using automated tools
to harvest email addresses from the Internet and Usenet. What I don't
understand is why you're just now noticing the phenomenon. Was this
the first time you ever posted to Usenet?
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
Bruce Chambers
-- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "Paul" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:331901c3fd60$6150d140$a501280a@phx.gbl... > my email adress is paulzpc@msn.com or paulzpc@adephia.net > and I have been sent a virus by the same person three > times im not sure why this child is sending me these > viruses but i think MSN needs to know this might be a > danger to some in the future this persons address is > marc.huber@student.unisg.ch in case and one runs into > this mail address it has an attachment in titles three > things the first one was "nice pic of you" the second > is "this is the pic I promised you" and the third is "are > you there is is very funny" I really think people like us > should stop kids or people who are tring to mess up > others computers by tell others of there danger I need to > get in contact with AOL and Yahoo as well > please "someone" send me a link where I can tell someone > about this kid he will so be a danger and needs to be > stopped now..Paul of florida
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