SWEN virus question...

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Herbert West

Can anybody confirm?

Have we been experiencing another big wave of SWEN virus mailings?
Over the past few days, I've been receiving up to a dozen Swen
mailings per day on an account that has, until several days ago, only
received a couple per week at most. Headers reveal multiple
originations in Europe and Japan.

TIA any information!

-Herb-
 
Can anybody confirm?

Have we been experiencing another big wave of SWEN virus mailings?
Over the past few days, I've been receiving up to a dozen Swen
mailings per day on an account that has, until several days ago, only
received a couple per week at most. Headers reveal multiple
originations in Europe and Japan.

TIA any information!

-Herb-
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I haven't received 1 swen virus, but that's cause my reply to e-mail
address is not 100% correct & the harvester programs don't know that.
modify your address in the newsgroups & you'll notice a drop of them.
 
I haven't received 1 swen virus, but that's cause my reply to e-mail
address is not 100% correct & the harvester programs don't know that.
modify your address in the newsgroups & you'll notice a drop of them.
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Good advice, but I don't use my *real* address in Usenet. Even on the
web, I use disposable addresses from hotmail.

(e-mail address removed) is a totally bogus spamspoiler.

The fact remains that my unpublished address is getting a lot more
Swen-mail. I'd assume that somebody who knows me and has my true
address in their mailbox is infected or has had their address-book
raped by the worm and I'm getting blasted by hijacked proxies. (More
likely the latter, as the Received: headers never contain an IP or
domain of anybody I know).

I'd love to personally strangle the people at MickeySoft who decided
to leave so many non-essential services enabled in Windows by default.
 
So this isn't your address?
From: Herbert West <[email protected]"xxxxx"
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Of course not! In fact, it doesn't even resolve to a valid domain.
(It wouldn't be fair to cause somebody elses system to be flooded with
spam).
Then someone that has your address has it & is probably rebooting alot
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Yup. And he is probably too terminally clueless to understand that
his computer has been hijacked or how to fix the problem. He probably
even deliberately clicked on the link in a Usenet post expecting to
see Christina Aguilera or his Next Door Neighbor in the Nude (or
thought that it was very "nice" of the folks at Microsoft to send him
a *personal email* with a security update for Windoze). ARRGGH!!!

Oh well....
 
On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 20:00:36 +0000, Herbert West wrote:

a *personal email* with a security update for Windoze). ARRGGH!!!
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I take it you don't like windoze. What's keeping you there? ;)
 
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Can anybody confirm?

Have we been experiencing another big wave of SWEN virus mailings?
Over the past few days, I've been receiving up to a dozen Swen
mailings per day on an account that has, until several days ago, only
received a couple per week at most. Headers reveal multiple
originations in Europe and Japan.
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For the past two days I have been getting about six per day also. Just
installed AVAST and it is finding them before they are downloaded.
AVAST seems much better at this than AVG was.
 
On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 20:00:36 +0000, Herbert West wrote:



I take it you don't like windoze.
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Actually, I don't mind Windoze. What I don't like is the stupid
clueless lusers who have the habit of clicking on every fsck'ing link
they see in s email! (That point was mentioned in the part that got
snipped).
What's keeping you there? ;)
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"Company Policy" I also run Unix/Linux, mostly on the servers.

Virus/trojan writers will always target the most prevalent OS, which
at this point is 32-bit Windows systems. A decade or more ago, the
virus scene targetted mainly DOS (and a smattering of Macintosh and
Unix). Whatever OS supercedes Windows in the future will be the majpr
target of the malware authors. I certainly hope that the designers of
such an OS have learned from the past and present, and build much
greater integral security into the system.

Concerning any future OS, some say open source will help alleviate the
malware problem; others say it will contribute to the problem. My
experience with *nix is that although it is not inherently secure, the
fact that the internals are public knowledge also allow holes and
exploits to be plugged much faster than in Windows where we all have
to wait for the Corporate division to authorize the generation and
release of a patch (usually only aftr an exploit becomes a problem).

Bottom line. I don't dislike Windows. It's a tool. I just don't
like the "Dilbertised" corporate environment that controls it. <g>
 
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