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Date:	Mon, 1 Dec 2003 08:25:47 PST8
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Rejected messages that I never sent

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Peter Skye wrote:

> Ray Davison wrote:
>
>>I am still getting several a day. Plus many
>>offers of Microsoft fixes - some of them may
>>even be from MS. Is this ever likely to quit?
Understand, I am not referring to everything of this type, forever. I
just mean the mess that started last - what, September. I expected that
to eventually dry up.
>
> I get a couple a day.
>
> It's the SWEN virus (both the Microsoft-looking offers and the
> "bounces"). There's typically a 150K attachment -- if your messages
> have the attachment then it's SWEN that you're receiving.
The "MS updates" of course have attachments. Since I have a MS
registration some of them are probably legit; but I don't trust any of
them, even if they have a MS domain.

I don't recall attachments on the "We couldn't deliver that" messages.
>
> The messages aren't going to stop as long as there are machines that
> keep relaying it.

I was hopping that once every infected machine got turned on that would
end it, but I guess every infected machine also has to get cleaned. If
so, this could go on forever.
>
> I filter them. If you want my filter let me know.
>
Sure, what's it run on? My only email client for about a year has been
Mozilla.

I once asked if you wanted the complete PKLITE, but didn't notice a
reply. Do you want it?

Ray

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