Getting Bombarded by 100's of spam/virus emails!

Is anyone else getting hammered by these virus emails that purport to be
from Microsoft? I'm drowning in them! Since last thursday I've deleted
approximately 2400-2600 of these from my email. They are all to the address
I use here, which I created for use in the NG's.

It is the Swen virus. This has also happened on the "HotWheels" board. Cary

It's happened here, on alt.games.half-life ,
alt.games.half-life.counterstrike , and many others. I have also received
over 1,000 virus emails in the last 3 days.
At the least, he should get 20-30 years of algae scraping as punishment.

Keith J.

"Cary" wrote in message
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It is the Swen virus. This has also happened on the "HotWheels" board.
Cary



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Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.520 / Virus Database: 318 - Release Date: 9/18/2003

if you spam out your address here, they have a subroutine that will strip
out, SPAM, NO, DOT, NOT, etc and replace them with likely letters to
complete a real address...

they have bots that download every message on a newsgroup and strip the
headers, put addresses together and return them to the user...

in some groups they've even resorted to putting addresses in backwards....

"The Madd Hatter" wrote in message
e.rogers.com...
Is anyone else getting hammered by these virus emails that purport to be
from Microsoft? I'm drowning in them! Since last thursday I've deleted
approximately 2400-2600 of these from my email. They are all to the
address
I use here, which I created for use in the NG's.

yes, and I kept getting returned mail which I had not sent out in the first
place alternating in with these messages. I believe it called a swen worm
and it ceased when I did the worm correction download and the latest
security update off of the microsoft. site- don't download anything off the
attachments on the stuff you are getting, go to the microsoft website

"The Madd Hatter" wrote in message
e.rogers.com...
Is anyone else getting hammered by these virus emails that purport to be
from Microsoft? I'm drowning in them! Since last thursday I've deleted
approximately 2400-2600 of these from my email. They are all to the
address
I use here, which I created for use in the NG's.

i tried Microsoft's Windows update, but I'm already up to date. where can i
get the Swen worm correction download?

I'm getting the same mix of emails...

"Jayne Narvesen" wrote in message
...
yes, and I kept getting returned mail which I had not sent out in the
first
place alternating in with these messages. I believe it called a swen worm
and it ceased when I did the worm correction download and the latest
security update off of the microsoft. site- don't download anything off
the
attachments on the stuff you are getting, go to the microsoft website

"The Madd Hatter" wrote in message
e.rogers.com...
Is anyone else getting hammered by these virus emails that purport to be
from Microsoft? I'm drowning in them! Since last thursday I've deleted
approximately 2400-2600 of these from my email. They are all to the
address
I use here, which I created for use in the NG's.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/sec...9116479,00.htm

you may not have that problem, it's a trick of sorts.... you MAY have d'l'ed
it as a patch, but if you've went to the MS site, you'll probably be ok...


"The Madd Hatter" wrote in message
ble.rogers.com...
i tried Microsoft's Windows update, but I'm already up to date. where can
i
get the Swen worm correction download?

I'm getting the same mix of emails...

"Jayne Narvesen" wrote in message
...
yes, and I kept getting returned mail which I had not sent out in the
first
place alternating in with these messages. I believe it called a swen
worm
and it ceased when I did the worm correction download and the latest
security update off of the microsoft. site- don't download anything off
the
attachments on the stuff you are getting, go to the microsoft website

"The Madd Hatter" wrote in message
e.rogers.com...
Is anyone else getting hammered by these virus emails that purport to
be
from Microsoft? I'm drowning in them! Since last thursday I've deleted
approximately 2400-2600 of these from my email. They are all to the
address
I use here, which I created for use in the NG's.

I don't know if it is a coincidence that my worm emails stopped after I did
the downloads or not but I went to microsoft.com/downloads/search and
downloaded the blaster worm update and the security update for my version of
windows, even though the site told me I was up to date on my updates. (lots
of updates there!) They quit coming in after that



" you may not have that problem, it's a trick of sorts.... you MAY have
d'l'ed
it as a patch, but if you've went to the MS site, you'll probably be ok...


i tried Microsoft's Windows update, but I'm already up to date. where
can
i
get the Swen worm correction download?

I'm getting the same mix of emails...

"Jayne Narvesen" wrote in message
...
yes, and I kept getting returned mail which I had not sent out in the
first
place alternating in with these messages. I believe it called a swen
worm
and it ceased when I did the worm correction download and the latest
security update off of the microsoft. site- don't download anything
off
the
attachments on the stuff you are getting, go to the microsoft website

"The Madd Hatter" wrote in message
e.rogers.com...
Is anyone else getting hammered by these virus emails that purport
to
be
from Microsoft? I'm drowning in them! Since last thursday I've
deleted
approximately 2400-2600 of these from my email. They are all to the
address
I use here, which I created for use in the NG's.

"The Madd Hatter" wrote in message
e.rogers.com...
Is anyone else getting hammered by these virus emails that purport to be
from Microsoft? I'm drowning in them! Since last thursday I've deleted
approximately 2400-2600 of these from my email. They are all to the
address
I use here, which I created for use in the NG's.




I got the same problem. I use this U2email account strictly for Usenet. But
I'm about to switch to abuse@localhost and spell out my email in the body of
the message. It's getting ridiculous.

Thanx for the replies guys... It looks like its more of a nuisance then a
danger, as long as NAV and Windows are updated and email scanningis on.. I
don't have any infections, just 1000's of these emails hitting me
constantly. For now I've just setup message rules that send all emails not
addressed specifically to me, straight to the delete folder. I've read
rumors that the virus may be able to go on usenet and refresh its list of
email addresses by scanning recent posts. I think I'll mask my email addy
here so it doesn't get harvested again....
"The Madd Hatter" wrote in message
e.rogers.com...
Is anyone else getting hammered by these virus emails that purport to be
from Microsoft? I'm drowning in them! Since last thursday I've deleted
approximately 2400-2600 of these from my email. They are all to the
address
I use here, which I created for use in the NG's.