Re: Email worm sent to "group members"

The barrage of "Microsoft" e-mails in my "NYRides" inbox has finally settled
down a bit.  I was getting 75 to 80 twice a day/every day for a while.

"Tim McNamara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Chuck Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 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)
> >
> > 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."
>
> 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.