Watch your inboxes guys.............................

September 21, 2003 3:19 AM from

Yesterday i got 3 e-mails pretending to be Microsoft Security with patches attached. All 3 were infected with a virus and fortunately my Norton Software was fully up-to-date and detected them and i managed to quarantine and delete them.

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Reply #1 September 21, 2003 3:55 AM from

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Probably W32Swen.A@mm http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

There's a removal tool if anyone does get caught.

Reply #2 September 21, 2003 6:11 AM from

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, should be funny if you have an email addres like: [email protected]

Reply #3 September 21, 2003 7:03 AM from

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Got 30 of them since yesterday... >

Reply #4 September 21, 2003 9:30 AM from

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30........jeez Calle thats a lot.

That makes me feel rather neglected.

These viruses are making me hoping mad

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Reply #5 September 21, 2003 10:59 AM from

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best to create web mail acounts for the sites and then give out your real email to those you want otherwise they use a spyder and pull you email out of the sites you put it on...

Reply #6 September 21, 2003 11:29 AM from

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/me loves MailWasher!

Reply #7 September 21, 2003 11:58 AM from

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Haven't installed a mailwasher yet, quite new machine...

But now it is about time...

Reply #8 September 21, 2003 12:10 PM from

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Koa & c242

/me 's been liking SpamKiller going on a couple of years now, and NAV with NIS Pro which also filters spam and automatically scans good emails and deletes, makes a report and notifies you of nasty hidden in incoming mail...

Reply #9 September 21, 2003 12:36 PM from

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Just had a couple more..........this is really hacking me off >

Reply #10 September 21, 2003 4:38 PM from

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Thanks for the warning. I received 1 and since I'm so much smarter now, I deleted it.

You don't want to know how I got smarter.

Reply #11 September 21, 2003 5:37 PM from

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S***~ that's well bad. Is it true that Linux OS' can't be hacked / virus...ed ?

Reply #12 September 21, 2003 5:41 PM from

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not true. It can.

Reply #13 September 21, 2003 5:45 PM from

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not true. It can.

hahaha!! I quoted you~!

I've never done that before hehe........................................Not funny......

Reply #14 September 21, 2003 5:49 PM from

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well done.

Reply #15 September 21, 2003 6:53 PM from

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If you don't want to shell out money, I recommend Mozilla Thunderbird. It has built in spam management, and eveyone knows the story behind Mozilla...free...open source...early RCs... Ahh. Oops, um, yeah, it's good software.

Reply #16 September 22, 2003 12:02 AM from

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Using Spamihilator now. http://www.spamihilator.com/index2.php?lang=en Aah, much better...

Reply #17 September 22, 2003 8:51 AM from

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just got another 4 now i am really getting jacked off.

Calle, looks like Spamihilator or IP's Spamkiller or Koasati's Mailwasher will be my next port of call.

Thanks for the help , guys

Reply #18 September 22, 2003 4:19 PM from

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Just read a warning from Cnet about the Swen virus, opened mailwasher and there it was

. My isp offers web-mail and an emscam account...very nice.

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