Re: [SLE] Virus Alert ( I'm getting all your junk! )

From: Ben Rosenberg (ben_at_whack.org)
Date: 09/19/03

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    Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:35:37 -0700
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    Why on God's green earth would you CC this list with this. You've sent
    email to an address that probably doesn't even get looked at.

    And now you've spammed 1000's of people on this list. *shakes head*

    * Daniel Joyce (daniel.a.joyce@worldnet.att.net) [030919 09:34]:
    >Okay folks, please update your scanners and clean your PCs!
    >
    >http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.swen.a@mm.html
    >
    >This guy is giving me lots of pain indirectly. It infects your computer, looks
    >in your addressbook, forges a email from someone in said book. If said email
    >bounces due to a virus scanner finding the virus, and it was forged to look
    >like it came from me, I GET THE BOUNCED EMAIL from those damnable scanners!
    >
    >Please clean up your PCs, I've gotten 200+ copies today alone (direct infected
    >emails, and mails bounced by the virus scanners ).
    >
    >Note that it IS a windows virus. I run Linux, I'm immune. If you see any virii
    >supposedly coming from me, it DIDN'T. It forged the headers to make it look
    >so. 

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