On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 06:24:06 GMT, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "belfry"
<belfry@insightbb.com> wrote:
>
> I have been getting the fake Microsoft Update and "returned" e-mails
> exactly like the the Swen virus,
[snip]

Not "exactly like the the Swen virus"... It *is* the Swen virus.

> ...but I have downloaded from Symantec and others
> their scanning program and ran it. And they all say I do not have the
> Win32.Swen.A virus.
[snip]

Good for you. But that has NOTHING to do with getting bombed by all the
morons out there who *are* infected.

> Yet I still am being bombarded with these "returned
> messages" and MS Update notices, all with that 106K size attachment!
>
[snip]

Yep, that's Swen all right.

As a point of reference, my mail server has killed ~900 copies of it to
date, *not* counting the estimated ~4,000 delivery attempts that my various
static and DNSbl-based blocks have prevented from getting that far. The
good news (sort of) is that it seems to be slowing down somewhat -- instead
of ~50/hour, attempts are now down to maybe ~20/hour, with only 2-3 of them
getting through to the AV scanner, which kills them on sight.

> Even F-Prot says my coimputer is clean.
[snip]

As noted above, that's not relevant.

> Can someone help?
>
[snip]

Only your ISP, and the ISPs of the idiots whose systems are sending the crap
-- both of which *should* be filtering it ALL out, by now. ***** at them.

--

Jay T. Blocksom
--------------------------------
Appropriate Technology, Inc.
usenet01[at]appropriate-tech.net


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

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