Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

[Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>]

I'm curious why I'm getting so many of these viruses sent to me.  On
various technical lists I've read of lots of people that are getting
hammered by the mail, too.

>From the descriptions I've read of W32/Swen@MM it mails itself to 
"recipients extracted from the victim machine", yet I'm seeing so many 
of these to my personal email address alone that I can't believe my 
address is listed on that many machines.  Today I got about 300 alone 
send to just one address.  Other's I've talked with about this (non-geek 
internet users) are not seeing so much of the virus, if at all.

The viruses are all coming from Windows machines, right?  It just seems 
odd that my address would be on that many (cluelessly-run)  Windows 
machines considering what lists I'm on.

I'm also not on IRC or any of the other ways for it to spread.

Anyone getting hit hard by this and understand why?


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Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org