Question about W32.Novarg.A.mm

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Anyone else gettin emails infected with this virus by the dozen.So far ive
had 50 since i got up and at the time of wring im still gettin em.Adverage 4
every 1 hr 30.I didnt get as many as this even when i started gettin
swen.Just wanna no if im the only one gettin so many.Oh yeah me pc is clean
of all viruses but im still gettin email sayin if sent W32.Novarg.A.mm to
them.Cheers Keanu
 
Keanu Reeves said:
Anyone else gettin emails infected with this virus by the dozen.So far ive
had 50 since i got up and at the time of wring im still gettin em.Adverage 4
every 1 hr 30.I didnt get as many as this even when i started gettin
swen.Just wanna no if im the only one gettin so many.Oh yeah me pc is clean
of all viruses but im still gettin email sayin if sent W32.Novarg.A.mm to
them.Cheers Keanu
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Thanks but no thanks..I don't need another virus on my system.. :)
 
Anyone else gettin emails infected with this virus by the dozen.So far ive
had 50 since i got up and at the time of wring im still gettin em.Adverage 4
every 1 hr 30.I didnt get as many as this even when i started gettin
swen.Just wanna no if im the only one gettin so many.Oh yeah me pc is clean
of all viruses but im still gettin email sayin if sent W32.Novarg.A.mm to
them.Cheers Keanu
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According to an article on Wired News, one out of twelve emails sent
Monday were this virus. It's supposed to be likely to be as big a
problem as the SoBig was last year.
 
Looks like someone you know is infected. I got three yesterday from people
who I don't know. Nothing to worry about.
 
I'm getting slammed with:

The following attachments were deleted due to an inability to clean them:
1. q527612.exe: W32.Swen.A@mm

The following attachments were deleted due to an inability to clean them:
1. Pack5363.exe: W32.Swen.A@mm

Also the microsoft customer email with an attachment and a couple with
something like this:

Hi.


Undeliverable message to (e-mail address removed)

Altogether I have seven emails with viruses this morning. Not all were
caught by my provider...
 
Flippin eck 78 emails of this virus this morning.Havent had any all day
woohoooooo.Touch wood i wont get any more. Keanu
 
Keanu Reeves said:
Anyone else gettin emails infected with this virus by the dozen.
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None here yet, I must wait until my clueless friends get infected
I guess. Hopefully by then my ISP will be able to catch them
like they did with Swen. I got four (two pair) of Swen during
the onslaught ~ Brightmail neutered them before I got them.

Swen was especially bad for usenet participants, and didn't
get noticed much by the media ~ this one is different in that
it affects a larger cross section of internet users.
 
Camford said:
Looks like someone you know is infected. I got three yesterday from people
who I don't know. Nothing to worry about.
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Interesting, but how do you know they are from people
that you don't know? They could very well be from
people that you *do* know - but pretending to be from
someone you don't.
 
Kevin Altizer said:
I'm getting slammed with:

The following attachments were deleted due to an inability to clean them:
1. q527612.exe: W32.Swen.A@mm

The following attachments were deleted due to an inability to clean them:
1. Pack5363.exe: W32.Swen.A@mm

Also the microsoft customer email with an attachment and a couple with
something like this:
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You are posting your unmunged (I assume) e-mail address to
usenet - Swen thanks you for the snack.
 
from the wonderful person said:
None here yet, I must wait until my clueless friends get infected
I guess. Hopefully by then my ISP will be able to catch them
like they did with Swen. I got four (two pair) of Swen during
the onslaught ~ Brightmail neutered them before I got them.

Swen was especially bad for usenet participants, and didn't
get noticed much by the media ~ this one is different in that
it affects a larger cross section of internet users.
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But at least the damn payload is only about 20-30k, rather than the
~200k that SWEN delivered. That was the main annoyance with SWEN - if
you actually downloaded the wretched things they would eat all your
bandwidth capacity (for those of us not on broadband).
 
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