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Re: [vps-mail] Look out for this one



And Thus Spake Rae French <rfrench@xxxxxxxxxxx> (on Sat, 20 Sep 2003
14:45:12 -0500):

> We just received the following message which appears to be coming from 
> Microsoft but when you open the headers it is coming through a mindspring 
> account. Would Microsoft be using Mindspring (an Earthlink company) to
> send mail? Not very likely! At any rate, the message is an html webpage
> from Microsoft's site and it has an attachment called "Update8986.exe".

I've already bounced a few hundred of those from my machines. They're the
latest worm. See here for more details:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.swen.a@xxxxxxx

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G. Stewart   --   gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx -- gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx
Registered Linux user #284683 (Slackware 9.0)
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There's no place like ~

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