Same Virus every day for a Month

[Frager]

Hello to all.



I have been receiving up to seven emails with virus attachments for the last
three to four weeks.

Norton anti-virus has detected and deleted all the infected attachments.

Is it usual to receive so many viruses every day?

Or is it possible that they are coming from the infected computer of a
friend who has my address in their address book?

The return path is different in all emails. The virus is W32.Swen.A@mm

Below is what I see in the Frolm Line and the Subject line.



I would appreciate any comments.



Pat



From
Subject Date

Inet Email Service
Failure Letter 5/12/03

Internet Security Section
Last Secure update 5/12/03

MS Corporation Security Department New Net
Security Upgrade 5/12/03

ms network message delivery system Undelivered
message returned to sender 5/12/03

Microsoft Corporation Internet Security Division New Network
Security Update 7/12/03

Network Email delivery system Abort
Announcement 7/12/03

ms internet message service notice
8/12/03

Security Support
current upgrade 8/12/03

Email System
Returned Mail 9/12/03

inet message delivery service Abort
letter 9/12/03

Microsoft Corporation Internet Security Division new net
update 9/12/03

Microsoft Inet System
Undelivered message: returned to mailer 9/12/03

Network Message Storage Service Notice
9/12/03

Postmaster
Failure Announcement 9/12/03

Security Division
Last Internet Critical Update 9/12/03

Inet Service
Bug letter 10/12/03

MS Technical Bulletin New
Critical update 10/12/03

 

[Frederic Bonroy]

I have been receiving up to seven emails with virus attachments for the last
three to four weeks.

Norton anti-virus has detected and deleted all the infected attachments.

Is it usual to receive so many viruses every day?

It's Swen so it's not unusual. ;-)

Or is it possible that they are coming from the infected computer of a
friend who has my address in their address book?

Not impossible but Swen gets email addresses from many different places.

You can try to stop posting with a valid email address in newsgroups
(this will reduce the load) and you can set up filters on your incoming
mail server.

 

[YoKenny]

Hello to all.

I have been receiving up to seven emails with virus attachments for
the last three to four weeks.

Norton anti-virus has detected and deleted all the infected
attachments.

Is it usual to receive so many viruses every day?

Or is it possible that they are coming from the infected computer of a
friend who has my address in their address book?

The return path is different in all emails. The virus is W32.Swen.A@mm

Below is what I see in the Frolm Line and the Subject line.

I would appreciate any comments.

<snip stuff seen thousands of times>

Either you can't look for the many many previous post on this topic or you
have been vacationing for the last couple of months on a deserted island
somewhere that had no radio nor tv?

Aren't you happy that Norton caught the worm or you would be one of the
initially thousands now hundreds of machines infected with this?

 

[PPH]

The guy is asking a valid question. You do not have to be a condescending
assh@le.

 

[Frager]

Frederic,
Thanks for your comments. I will try a false email address. I hope it is not
too late.
Thanks.
Pat

 

[Frager]

Thanks for your reply.
I did not know what heading I should use to search for an answer to my
particular problem.
Thanks for taking the trouble to reply to my post.

Pat

 

[Frager]

Thanks for your comment.
I assume YoKenny did not mean to be condescending.

 

[Dave Cohen]

In answer to the question 'am I too late' the answer is yes, while my
attempt rate has dropped dramatically, the damn thing just won't go away. I
use mailwasher so it's just become a nuisance. At one time I was getting so
many my server space (25 mb) filled up. Some people take out a free email
such as hotmail and limit visibility to friends.
Dave Cohen

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Quoth the raven named Frager:

Frederic,
Thanks for your comments. I will try a false email address. I hope it is not
too late.
Thanks.
Pat

Are you sure that (e-mail address removed) is not already in use by someone else
from your ISP? By using it, you're sending viruses and spam his way.

It is best to mung what is to the right of the @.
Use: (e-mail address removed)

 

[Frager]

It is clear that I have a lot to learn about email and the internet.
I posted to three newsgroups with my correct email address.
Thanks for your advice.
Pat

 

[Frager]

Thanks for your reply.
I will set up some message rules to sent the offending emails to a special
folder and then just delete all messages in that folder.
Pat

 

[YoKenny]

Thanks for your comment.
I assume YoKenny did not mean to be condescending.

PPH's response is typical of "know-it-all" teenagers that seem to know
everything but do not know how to include relevant parts of their post. Key
indicator of 'killfile' fodder.
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame15.html

Sorry, I was condescending but after reading hundreds of the same question I
became bored and responded as appropriate to the question.

 

[Frager]

No offense was taken at your comments.
Those of us who post questions to newsgroups are very grateful to experts
like yourself who take the time and trouble to help us solve our problems.
You might be interested to know that I have not got any infected emails
today.
Whether that is just a coincidence or is due to the fact that I changed the
email address in my News account I don't know.
Regards,
Pat