Re: Email worm sent to "group members"

Tim McNamara wrote:

>Chuck Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>>I can see by looking at the To: list that many in the
>>rec.bicycles.rides group (and others) were sent this email.
>>
>>Subject: Posta Sicura Elitel: notifica antivirus From:
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (att. - Latest Critical Patch.eml)
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>>This is a classic email worm that has invaded someone's address book
>>and sent itself to everyone in it. Looking at the list I see many
>>contributors from here. And the email addresses have to be from
>>someone's address book (using an email address that I never use in
>>public).
>>
>>Do not open this attachment. Microsoft never emails patches to
>>users. It is a worm/virus/trojan.
>>
>>I wonder who's got "the bug."
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>Thousands of people, mostly people running Microsoft news/mail
>readers that automatically upen attachments and thus launch the bug
>into their system.
>
>This is, from the sounds of it, the SWEN (news spelled backwards) bug.
>It's been around for months- are you just getting it for the first
>time?  I've gotten at least 15,000 of these rascals e-mailed to me
>over the past couple of months.  It raids news spools for e=mail
>addresses.  Someone like me who posts actively in a wide variety of
>newsgroups gets hit hard.
>  
>
At Microsoft. Security is job one. (You don't even want to see their
"number 2.")

I think it's an email virus because it uses an email address that I
never post. That had to come from someone's address book.

I get lots of spam I throw out without even downloading (using
Mailwasher), and some of that is surely worms and trojan stuff. I don't
hardly bother to look anymore. But this is the first one I've gotten
with so many names I recognize from Internet bicycling contacts.

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