About a week ago I started receiving notices about undeliverable messages, which I have nothing to do with. Some of them seem to have addresses that have Microsoft or MS. I also received a message from "Microsoft" about a virus patch.
I am deleting all these messages.
Just curious if any of you have been getting similar messages.
Thanks,
Alan
From a recent thread on comp.sys.sgi.admin:
:Ok, so there's this new W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] virus going around.
:Makes me wonder if there's :something in it that targets this newsgroup for email harvesting.
Not this newsgroup. It finds news servers, lists the groups
in them, and starts peeling off the messages. It looks for
from's and reply-to's (or something close to that.)
In other words, it has an active Usenet email address harvester built-in.
-and-
:Ok, so there's this new W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] virus going around.
:Makes me wonder if there's :something in it that targets this newsgroup for email harvesting.
Not this newsgroup. It finds news servers, lists the groups
in them, and starts peeling off the messages. It looks for
from's and reply-to's (or something close to that.)
In other words, it has an active Usenet email address harvester built-in.
Some of the guys that post a valid email address in their newsgroup posts are receiving several hundred of these 150k email msgs an hour. It is surmised that the worm/virus harvests these email adresses and propagates this way. I personally haven't seen any, but have noticed my external network being slower, as these many MBs of junk whiz around the ether....
tom
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