On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 21:49, Bill Moseley wrote: > 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? I am averaging about 4 swen mails every 3 minutes. I have had one minute get 17 swen mails. A few minutes ago I got 122 swen mails in 10 minutes. It's pretty wide-spread... I have heard ~1.5Million Windows machine are infected... (I think I have gotten at least one from every infected machine) but I'd think there are far more Clue-needed (l)users than we can care to count. The worst isn't over yet, some believe a secondary payload... Let's hope not. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry Your wit, your teeth, your pasty reflection can but incorporate freely into the powerful surface of a disintegrating mirror set afloat upon a swarm of locusts.
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