Re: Some help for my grandson

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 10/11/04

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    Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:16:10 -0400

    I will leave that to you. You can forward this post to him ;-)

    Jeff can expect emails that will look and appear as patches from Microsoft. They are not
    from Microsoft as Microsoft will *never* send unsolicited patches to anybody. They will
    have 134~156KB attachments and the email should be deleted.
    He can also expect Failed Mail emails sent to him from people he does not know. They will
    have 134~156KB attachments. They should be deleted.

    I also suggest...
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    Dave

    "Doug Mc" <NOSPAMdougandnancymcneill@chilitech.com> wrote in message
    news:Otcqy9zrEHA.2340@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
    | Thanks Dave,
    | I appreciate your warning. It never entered my mind - but should have.
    |
    | Can you tell him how to protect himself against my error??
    | Doug
    |
    |
    |
    | "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
    | news:O2syb5zrEHA.1036@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
    | > Doug:
    | >
    | > Some feedback --
    | > In actuality you did your Grandson, Jeff, a disservice by posting his
    | email address,
    | > unmunged, in this News Group. The following is an example of a munged
    | email address;
    | > DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net when you remove ~nospam~ you have the true
    | email address.
    | > Here is the reason why...
    | >
    | > 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 and 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.
    | >
    | > W32/Swen@MM - http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100662.htm
    | >
    | > W32.Swen.A@mm -
    | http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.swen.a@mm.html
    | >
    | > Dave
    | >
    | >
    | >
    | >
    | > "Doug Mc" <NOSPAMdougandnancymcneill@chilitech.com> wrote in message
    | > news:OclVuxzrEHA.868@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
    | > | Thanks Dave, I appreciate it.
    | > | Doug
    | >
    | >
    |
    |

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