Re: Mass mailer worm?

From: calli (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 07:31:53 -0800

I'm sorry, I didn't even know what 'munged' meant until
just now, & I won't do it again.

My actions are obviouly not the problem as this is on
another user's PC with her own e-mail address - the only
PC with the problem.

Has anyone any ideas?
>-----Original Message-----
>Your actions are NOT helping the situation.
>
>If you post to UseNet with your TRUE, not a munged, email
address then you have invited the
>Swen Internet worm [aka; W32/Gibe-F] to visit you.
>
>The Swen is news spelled backwards. The reason it is
called this is because the Swen worm
>harvests email addresses from UseNet News Groups. It has
an engine that allows it to post
>itself to UseNet News Groups as well as it has its own
email engine. From the list of
>email addresses that it has harvested, it will then email
itself to those addresses.
>
>Dave
>
>
>
>"calli" <c a r o l i n e s @ h erbertparnell.com> wrote
in message
>news:151b801c3fa1b$29f61540$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>| Our office administrator is getting roughly 2000
returned
>| e-mails a day from 'Mailer-Daemon', although our anti-
>| virus software has not detected any viruses, the
>| definitions are up-to-date, & none of the latest removal
>| tools find anything.
>|
>| She must have something somewhere, but I am tearing my
>| hair out as to how to stop the e-mails.
>|
>| Please has anyone any ideas?
>
>
>.
>

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