W32.Swen.A@mm

[YO]

I have NAV installed in my computer and a while ago I started getting email messages with the worm W32.Swen.A@mm. My antivirus deletes them on arrival, but recently their number has increased and I am being bombarded with emails containing this worm. I configured my email to send this messages to a specific folder called "viruses", but it is very annoying to have to deal with this amount of messages. What can I do to stop this?

Thank you

 

[David Carley]

I don'nt think there is no cure. I have contacted my ISP (NTLWorld) and hopefully I should hear from them soon.

I will let you know once i hear from NTLWorld.

David.
I have NAV installed in my computer and a while ago I started getting email messages with the worm W32.Swen.A@mm. My antivirus deletes them on arrival, but recently their number has increased and I am being bombarded with emails containing this worm. I configured my email to send this messages to a specific folder called "viruses", but it is very annoying to have to deal with this amount of messages. What can I do to stop this?

Thank you

 

[Carygee]

Me too. See this: http://www.pchell.com/virus/swen.shtml
I have NAV installed in my computer and a while ago I started getting email messages with the worm W32.Swen.A@mm. My antivirus deletes them on arrival, but recently their number has increased and I am being bombarded with emails containing this worm. I configured my email to send this messages to a specific folder called "viruses", but it is very annoying to have to deal with this amount of messages. What can I do to stop this?

Thank you

 

[Notxap]

I too have this problem, tonight already I've received 26 e-mails infected
with Swen.

My PC is not infected with Swen, the only thought I have is that someone
with my e-mail in their address book is infected and until their PC is
cleaned I take it the e-mails will continue.

Does anyone have an idea how I find out which of my contacts has been
infected ?

PS. TIP Although Norton Internet Security 2004 is not available on the UK
Symantec Web shop it is available on the US site.

 

[Steve M (remove wax for reply)]

I too have this problem, tonight already I've received 26 e-mails infected
with Swen.

My PC is not infected with Swen, the only thought I have is that someone
with my e-mail in their address book is infected and until their PC is
cleaned I take it the e-mails will continue.

Does anyone have an idea how I find out which of my contacts has been
infected ?

It could be anywhere on the web that has your address.

Some people say that it comes from Usenet, and that might be true.
However, I have not gotten a single one on the address that I have
been using on Usenet for 10 days. Mostly it's munged, but I use it
unmunged on NANAS (news.admin.net-abuse.sightings).

The address that is receiving it here is the one that I only give to
personal acquaintances and family.

According to Norton, it "... searches .html, .asp, .eml, .dbx, .wab,
..mbx files on the hard disk for email addresses."

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

I looked carefully at more than 30 of the Swen virus attempts. None
of them came from an ISP that I have ever corresponded with. It
included ISP's in Luxembourg, Israel, Poland, the Czech republic,
Hawaii, Canada, and other places.

AFAICT the infected computer (that had your address) sent it secretly
to a central location, which sent it to another infected computer
which in turn sent it to you.

 

[Daniel Yates]

NTL have ap age on how to make sure you are not infected

http://www.ntlworld.com/virus

I was onthe phopne to them the other day and they told me that they are installing both spamkill software and virus filtering sometime this autumn. I doubt it will have any bearing on this current virus but will help a lot with later ones - I ended up just changing all my account details with them and getting a new e-mail address - I had been sloppy with the old one, so going for a ruthless approach with this new one

Peace

Daniel
I don'nt think there is no cure. I have contacted my ISP (NTLWorld) and hopefully I should hear from them soon.

I will let you know once i hear from NTLWorld.

David.
I have NAV installed in my computer and a while ago I started getting email messages with the worm W32.Swen.A@mm. My antivirus deletes them on arrival, but recently their number has increased and I am being bombarded with emails containing this worm. I configured my email to send this messages to a specific folder called "viruses", but it is very annoying to have to deal with this amount of messages. What can I do to stop this?

Thank you

 

[Gabriele Neukam]

On that special day, Steve M (remove wax for reply),
([email protected]) said...

I have not gotten a single one on the address that I have
been using on Usenet for 10 days.

Well, Swen doesn't mail to addresses with "spam" or "delete" inside.
Since I changed my address, I didn't receive any at all. Before they had
been probably several hundreds (I stopped counting after 216).


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)

 

[FromTheRafters]

On that special day, Steve M (remove wax for reply),
([email protected]) said...


Well, Swen doesn't mail to addresses with "spam" or "delete" inside.

Kind of makes me wonder why the coder didn't just edit
it out of those that contained those strings ~ seems obvious
enough a way to make most of them valid.