W32/Swen@MM virus attempts

[Tom Renfro]

Has anyone on this forum received numerous infection attempts from the
W32/Swen@MM virus? This is the one that looks like a security update
from Microsoft. Since I posted a question to this forum yesterday,
I've since received 37 infection attempts from locations literally
around the globe. One of the attempts was rejected by an Italian mail
server and this contained the email addresses of attempted
transmissions. ALL of these addresses have posted to this forum in
the last month!

I've contacted Google about this, have not heard anything yet.

 

[Hollis D. Paul]

Since I posted a question to this forum yesterday,
I've since received 37 infection attempts from locations literally
around the globe.

The rule now is to never use a real email address in a posting. You
should munge it in some way.

However, there is a solution, of sorts. Vamsoft has produced an SMTP
script that filters out most of these SWENA virus messages. Go to
http://www.vamsoft.com/orf/Tools.asp#swen


Hollis D. Paul [MVP - Outlook]
(e-mail address removed)
Using Virtual Access 4.52 build 277 (32-bit), Windows 2000 build 2195
http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp?FR=0&SD=TECH&LN=EN-US

Mukilteo, WA USA

 

[Tran Gia Loc]

Hello Tom,
Like you I do receive all sort of viruses in my Hotmail
account. I keep them all there. (Indeed I collect
viruses).
I think that there is a virus-maker which send viruses to
all e-mail adresses in this forum. That's why Microsoft
just send a warning about the risk of using real e-mail
address in this forum. Read "Reducing Spam associated with
posting" posted here by MSFT.
Tran Gia Loc.

 

[Christoph Sbach]

Yes! Yes!
Since posting to this Newsgroup I recieved ca. 700 Virus Mails.
First posting 15.10.2003 - first Virus-Mail 1 hour later.

Every Day ca. 200 - 300 infected eMails.

Thank You for your information!