Re: Email worm sent to "group members"

same story minus the trip to germany.  I started with as many as 40 a 
day in September, but now it's down to 4 or 5 a day.   still with an old 
dialup connection is a real pain.

Ken Brown wrote:

> Chuck, I have been getting that patch since September. The first day
> Norton didn't even catch it, but I knew not to open it. I was getting
> about 40 copies a day and it really pissed me off because each
> attachment was about 100 kb and I was leaving in a few days for my
> cycling trip in Germany. I was concerned it would overload my quota at
> my ISP because I would not be able to retreive e-mail every day.
> Fortunately the volume reduced and I was generally able to get to an
> internet cafe about every other day. However there was one stretch
> where it was 4 days and I did lose some e-mail.
>
> There were many addresses that it was coming from and I did not
> recognize any of them. I still get 3 or 4 copies a day.
>
> Ken
> Chuck Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > 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."
> >    
>
> Ken Brown, Toronto Canada
> Ontario Rail Trails:  http://webhome.idirect.com/~brown
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