Viruses

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Frank Quaglietta

Since using this service on 9/18/03, I have been the
target of viruses from three senders - MS Customer
Support, Network Storage System, and MS Internet Security
Department. The subject line for each of the three are
as follows - newest microsoft pack, Returned mail:
Returned to sender, and Critical update - respectively.
The virus is a worm entitled "1.pack.exe: worm
Automat.AHB". Fortunately, my ISP is trapping the
content of these messages and I have made a clean scan of
my system with Norton. The messages are coming in groups
of three or four.

I suggest forwarding this message to whoever manages this
website so that they can attempt to resolve this problem.
 
Don't be daft. Ignore them, don't open them, just delete them all.

Read the thread 'O.T. - Bogus MS Patches' from RagDyer to see it is a common
problem. We're getting hundreds every day.

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HTH

Bob Phillips
... looking out across Poole Harbour to the Purbecks
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)
 
Frank Quaglietta said:
I suggest forwarding this message to whoever manages this
website so that they can attempt to resolve this problem.
Click to expand...

First, this is not a web site. It's a newsgroup, although you access
it via the Microsoft web portal. And the problem isn't Microsoft's -
its global.

Email addresses are easily harvested from newsgroups unless you put
some sort of anti-spam trap in your address, like

(e-mail address removed)

that humans (most) can figure out, but software still has a hard
time with.

In addition, the Google archives can be mined, since this and every
message posted to these groups gets archived:

http://google.com/advanced_group_search?q=group:*excel*

so your email address is "out there" to be harvested, and there's
*nothing* that can be done about it, short of shutting down
newsgroups (and I have no idea how that could be enforced) and
Google.

I've gotten well into the five figures of these messages over the
last couple of days, as have many of us - trap them and delete them
unread.
 
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