Be Very Careful Swen Virus is sending a blitz of e-mails all over the place.

[Mark Ronning]

Wow have got about thirty "mock" Microsoft Updates via e-mail. All have met
Mr. Recycle bin!!

Go to www.symantec.com they have a nice description of how the e-mail looks.

Never seen this many hit my e-mail box. Zone Alarm Pro and my hardware
firewall are doing the job!! Somebody is very busy on the internet. See a
ton of newsgroup posts that people are getting pounded by this "mock"
update.

For the novice user I'd have to say most of them have took the bait.

Just remember this advice "Microsoft does not e-mail Windows Updates"

Also, have noticed a bunch of yahoo e-mails with attachments.

Be very careful if you are not a advanced user!!

Mark Ronning

 

[LuckyStrike]

What you no doubt mean is, Right-Click>Shift>Delete entirely, bypassing any
movement of the item to the deleted items bin.

Just get the thing cleared out of your system entirely, and pronto at that!

Be certain to update any definitions for the AV program we all should have
installed from day one of the PC going "on-line". Same would apply as far as
a firewall is concerned.

Various firewalls will rename the .exe or .bat attachments to a different
extension, such as .zl9 or.zl3

Thanks for your friendly advice.