On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 11:11:54PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:49:18PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > >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. > > I think it's scanning Usenet via people's cache files. Debian-user is > echoed as a Usenet newsgroup. I had heard of this. I find it weird though... Many people (most?) munge their email, or just lie and put fake email addresses. So why bother to go through usenet looking for email addresses to spam. Is it just because it's so easy? Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> http://www.crasseux.com
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