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Religions > Atheism |
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"Marvin" |
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19 Sep 2003 10:55:41 AM |
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For what it's worth |
We used Mail Washer to delete over a hundred copies of
Win32.Swen.A (if I properly understand the notice we received from
eTrust) this morning, and nearly
all of them were coming to the address I use for this group,
another Usenet newsgroup, and a Yahoo hobby group. As several have
already said, don't open anything that claims to be from Microsoft if it
has
an attachment--they never send attachments. The worm also
generates failure to deliver and error messages (again, according to
eTrust) of which we've received at least fifty this morning. In size
they ranged from 130 some odd Kb
up, and there'd usually be quite a group with identical sizes.
I see several of you have had similar "attacks." For us, they seem to
be slowing down as of 10:50 AM CDT.
Good luck, everyone.
Marvin Doolin
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: For what it's worth |
19 Sep 2003 02:28:15 PM |
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:55:41 +0000, Marvin wrote:
As several have already said,
don't open anything that claims to be from Microsoft
Unfortunately, you still have a bug here -----^^^^
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Mark K. Bilbo
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| User: "Marvin" |
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| Title: Re: For what it's worth |
19 Sep 2003 04:23:31 PM |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" <iskanipa-y@hoo.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.09.19.19.28.15.878843@eac.org...
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:55:41 +0000, Marvin wrote:
As several have already said,
don't open anything that claims to be from Microsoft
Unfortunately, you still have a bug here -----^^^^
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Mark K. Bilbo
I do? Or Microsoft does? Or a.a does? I'm sorry, but I don't know
what you mean. I don't believe I have one. Our firewall, etc. seems to
be working correctly.
Marvin
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: For what it's worth |
19 Sep 2003 07:51:23 PM |
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:23:31 +0000, Marvin wrote:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <iskanipa-y@hoo.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.09.19.19.28.15.878843@eac.org...
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:55:41 +0000, Marvin wrote:
As several have already said,
don't open anything that claims to be from Microsoft
Unfortunately, you still have a bug here -----^^^^
--
Mark K. Bilbo
I do? Or Microsoft does? Or a.a does? I'm sorry, but I don't know what
you mean. I don't believe I have one. Our firewall, etc. seems to be
working correctly.
Well, I thought I was being funny.
Never mind...
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Mark K. Bilbo
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| User: "Marvin" |
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| Title: Re: For what it's worth |
19 Sep 2003 11:04:43 PM |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" <iskanipa-y@hoo.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.09.20.00.51.22.873142@eac.org...
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:23:31 +0000, Marvin wrote:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <iskanipa-y@hoo.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.09.19.19.28.15.878843@eac.org...
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:55:41 +0000, Marvin wrote:
As several have already said,
don't open anything that claims to be from Microsoft
Unfortunately, you still have a bug here -----^^^^
--
Mark K. Bilbo
I do? Or Microsoft does? Or a.a does? I'm sorry, but I don't know
what
you mean. I don't believe I have one. Our firewall, etc. seems to
be
working correctly.
Well, I thought I was being funny.
Never mind...
--
Mark K. Bilbo
I half thought so, but you had me going. Thanks for relieving someone
whose wit it often far behind that of others.
Marvin
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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| Title: Re: For what it's worth |
19 Sep 2003 05:21:53 PM |
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:23:31 GMT, "Marvin" <marvin2@starband.net>
wrote:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <iskanipa-y@hoo.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.09.19.19.28.15.878843@eac.org...
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:55:41 +0000, Marvin wrote:
As several have already said,
don't open anything that claims to be from Microsoft
Unfortunately, you still have a bug here -----^^^^
--
Mark K. Bilbo
I do? Or Microsoft does? Or a.a does? I'm sorry, but I don't know
what you mean. I don't believe I have one. Our firewall, etc. seems to
be working correctly.
I'm up to date with Norton's definitions and it still let some though.
The worst part was that every one it intercepted, it generated a
warning that had to be clicked to acknowledge it. It replaced the
attachment with a small message about the virus as well - so I still
got inundated by emails I didn't want.
So I've turned off NAV's email scan and I'm relying on the killfile
instead. Each time one gets through I add another entry based on
something unique in the subject or to-address which is usually
something like "email recipient", "inet user", etc.
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