On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:49:18PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:

> >From the descriptions I've read of W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 got over 1200 this weekend, and I'm a big poster to Usenet.  People I know
got like a dozen, and universally they are not.
--      
Carl Fink             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading
http://www.jabootu.com


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