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[Guest]

hello everyon

Ihave been on the internet now for close to 8 years. During this time I have been very discreet about who I give my e-mail to. Through all these years there has only been two times that I have received a virus through e-mail and these were both from friends whose computer had been infected with a virus. Two days ago I made the mistake of posting my e-mail address in this newsgroup along with a problem I was having. Now today I have suddenly received FOUR e-mails so far that contained the w32.swen virus with them. Two of these were about a microsoft security update with microsoft logo on them-which I knew right away were viruses and the other two were about some fictitious undeliverable e-mails. THis is totally disgusting that you can't post an e-mail address here because evidently certain individuals are targeting E-mail addresses they get from newsgoups like this to send viruses to. I WOULD STRONGLY URGE THAT YOU DO NOT POST YOUR E-MAIL IN THESE NEWSGROUPS. If you do you best make sure that your virus program is up to date and checks your email

Totally disguste
jim

 

[anyone]

Old news to anyone who spends any amount of time on this
newsgroup. There are lengthy discussions at least once or
twice a week about this very subject.

-----Original Message-----
hello everyone

Ihave been on the internet now for close to 8 years.

During this time I have been very discreet about who I give
my e-mail to. Through all these years there has only been
two times that I have received a virus through e-mail and
these were both from friends whose computer had been
infected with a virus. Two days ago I made the mistake of
posting my e-mail address in this newsgroup along with a
problem I was having. Now today I have suddenly received
FOUR e-mails so far that contained the w32.swen virus with
them. Two of these were about a microsoft security update
with microsoft logo on them-which I knew right away were
viruses and the other two were about some fictitious
undeliverable e-mails. THis is totally disgusting that you
can't post an e-mail address here because evidently certain
individuals are targeting E-mail addresses they get from
newsgoups like this to send viruses to. I WOULD STRONGLY
URGE THAT YOU DO NOT POST YOUR E-MAIL IN THESE NEWSGROUPS.
If you do you best make sure that your virus program is up
to date and checks your email.

 

[ppoatt]

Expect more.
4 is kind of light.
If it stays at 4 per day? You are Lucky.
My old,now closed, email account was getting 12 to over 40
per day.
You can wait to see if it passes. You may need to get
another email address.

-----Original Message-----
hello everyone

Ihave been on the internet now for close to 8 years.

During this time I have been very discreet about who I
give my e-mail to. Through all these years there has only
been two times that I have received a virus through e-mail
and these were both from friends whose computer had been
infected with a virus. Two days ago I made the mistake of
posting my e-mail address in this newsgroup along with a
problem I was having. Now today I have suddenly received
FOUR e-mails so far that contained the w32.swen virus with
them. Two of these were about a microsoft security update
with microsoft logo on them-which I knew right away were
viruses and the other two were about some fictitious
undeliverable e-mails. THis is totally disgusting that you
can't post an e-mail address here because evidently
certain individuals are targeting E-mail addresses they
get from newsgoups like this to send viruses to. I WOULD
STRONGLY URGE THAT YOU DO NOT POST YOUR E-MAIL IN THESE
NEWSGROUPS. If you do you best make sure that your virus
program is up to date and checks your email.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

It's been well known for years now that posting/publishing a real
email address to _any_ newsgroup, as you have done repeatedly, or web
site is an open initiation to be spammed. For years now, spammers
have been using automated tools to harvest email addresses from the
Internet and Usenet. What I don't understand is why you're just now
noticing the phenomenon. Was this the first time you _ever_ posted to
Usenet?

What you received is the output of a computer infected by one of
several widely publicized, wide-spread, mass emailing worms. The
virus' authors have deliberately spoofed the Microsoft information in
the hopes of garnering more victims. This sort of email has been very
common for at least the past 10 months. The most widely-known are:

W32.Swen.A_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

W32.Dumaru_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

W32.Gibe_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

Trojan.Xombe
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.xombe.html

Microsoft never has, does not currently, and very probably never
will email unsolicited security patches. At the most, if, and only
if, you subscribe to their security notification newsletter, they will
send you an email informing you that a new patch is available for
downloading.

Microsoft Policies on Software Distribution
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/policy/swdist.asp

Information on Bogus Microsoft Security Bulletin Emails
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/news/patch_hoax.asp

How to Tell If a Microsoft Security-Related Message Is Genuine
http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/authenticate_mail.asp

Remember, any and all legitimate patches and updates are readily
available at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. You should develop
the habit of checking this site at least once a month to keep your
computer up-to-date. (Notice that this is the true URL, rather than
the bogus one that may have been contained in the email you received.)
Any messages that point to any other source(s) or claim to have the
patch attached are bogus.

You're receiving these emails because your email address is in
the address book of someone infected with a worm, and/or because you
posted your real email address somewhere on-line, either in a forum
accessible to the public and spambots, such as Usenet, or on an
untrustworthy web site that subsequently sold your address as part of
a mailing list. One thing you can do is notify _everyone_ with whom
you've ever corresponded via email that one or more of them may be
infected with a mass emailing worm, and should take the appropriate
steps. You can also ask your ISP to take steps to preclude their mail
server from passing on such emails. Many ISPs have such filtering
capabilities.


Bruce Chambers
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[Guest]

Yes this is the first time I have posted on a site like
this and as I said in over 8 years have only received two
viruses through e-mail untill I posted it on this site so
I know this site is where someone got my e-mail. And yes
I know that ms does not send anything out. Even if My
virus detection wouldn't of picked it up I already was
aware that e-mails like this were actually a virus.I am
not the average computer user and am extremely informed
on computers other than realizing they were doing
this.case of momentary brain dead. And yes I update virus
def. and windows weekly. Basically wrote this post
because I see a lot of other postings on this site with
what appears to be real e-mail addresses and hoped I
could prevent at least a few other people from making
same mistake. I did not see sites e-mail disclaimer till
after I posted and then it only mentions spam. Think they
could put this in a better place so everyone is sure to
see it-such as a popup window before you post maybe????

 

[Alex Nichol]

Ihave been on the internet now for close to 8 years. During this time I have been very discreet about who I give my e-mail to. Through all these years there has only been two times that I have received a virus through e-mail and these were both from friends whose computer had been infected with a virus. Two days ago I made the mistake of posting my e-mail address in this newsgroup along with a problem I was having. Now today I have suddenly received FOUR e-mails so far that contained the w32.swen virus with them.

Note that this may be quite unrelated to your having posted here. One
of your legitimate contacts that has your name in the address book may
have been infected. Swen picks up an address at random from the
infected book to send itself to; and another to spoof the 'From' field -
so looking at the purported sender tells you little, except that that is
probably *not* the source.