Microsoft "Swen" Worm Squiggles Into Sight 789
greenhide writes "As forecast in this story, a new Microsoft worm has indeed wriggled to the surface. The W32.Swen's claim to fame is its professional looking email advertisement that pretends to be a fake Microsoft patch. Earlier viruses have made the claim, but none of them looked this good. It appears to have infected over 1.5 million machines. "
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Thats one hell of a virus.
I suggest all Windows users go to http://www.knoppix.net/ [knoppix.net] and burn the CD.
Re:Wow (Score:2)
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
In case you turned stupid and ran a fake patch that was emailed to you?
Re:Wow (Score:3)
Re:Wow (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Wow (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Wow (Score:4, Funny)
Tell me 'bout it. Ever since I started using the patch I haven't even had a single craving to use OE. Yep, just stopped. Just put the patch on in the mornin and.....
oh wait, you mean a security patch....... right.....
Special Knoppix Boot CD needed (Score:3, Interesting)
That way you won't risk running an infected machine on the Internet and infect others.
Re:Wow (Score:5, Informative)
I know this is marked as funny, but Knoppix is pretty damn useful. I've never particularly liked Linux, but I can tell you that my respect for that OS went way up after trying Knoppix out. I burned a couple of copies to keep around the office in case something like a worm lays waste to the network.
On a side note, it'd be nice if other Linux distros paid more attention to how Knoppix works. It auto-detects everything and doesn't require an install. Just pop in the disc, have it copy a few files over as read-only, and reboot. System corrupt? No prob, just copy the disc over again.
Norton Ghost (Score:4, Informative)
My 2000 system was on an old 2GB drive that was about to fail and with ghost I was up and running much faster on a 13GB drive in less than an hour. I also have an image of my web-server's OS/app drive in case it ever fails.
Knoppix and what I do is basically what prebuilt system manufacturers have been doing for years. It's just that HP, et al, add a lot of crap to the image.
Ben
Re:Norton Ghost (Score:4, Informative)
Norton Ghost is not Free Software. Are there not any OSS alternatives to Ghost??
Well, there is partimage [partimage.org]. However, I still find I prefer a tar gz ball. This way different partition sizes don't matter as they do with ghost and partimage. More work on the setup though. BTW, ghost has the same NTFS problems partimage does. Knoppix includes partimage.
Re:Wow (Score:5, Insightful)
it's also good enough to keep you on 'net while you're trying to figure out wtf went wrong.
unless you got an as good a windows running livecd system?
Re:Huh? (Score:2, Insightful)
I feel pretty damn safe under Linux, how do you feel worrying about when the next worm will take over your entire machine?
Gee, since I've never been infected by a virus or worm, and I've been using Windows since forever (both client and server side), I don't feel I have that much to worry about. Since I'm pretty confident I know how to use a computer and all its associated software properly, I don't think that Linux is that "magic snake oil" that will solve all my problem
Re:Huh? (Score:3, Insightful)
Zone Alarm is not the be all and end all of worm prevention
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Informative)
1.) Applying the patch
2.) Using *any* software firewall. Even WinXP's own firewall. ZoneAlarm is trash in my opinion. But it isn't your only protection.
3.) Using a hardware firewall which blocks the RPC port anyway.
The only defense is to stay vigilant and be smart about computers. Just because someone is using linux doesn't make it secure. No matter what Operating System you are on, you have to be somewhat proactive in protecting your computer.
Re:Huh? (Score:3, Insightful)
2.) Using *any* software firewall. Even WinXP's own firewall. ZoneAlarm is trash in my opinion.
But it isn't your only protection.
3.) Using a hardware firewall which blocks the RPC port anyway
4.) disable dcom with start -> run -> dcomcnfg
Re:Huh? (Score:4, Informative)
Agreed. I have found that Kerio Personal Firewall has been great. It's also free for non-commercial use.. good stuff. Everyone should use a firewall as it really would protect them from just about every one of these worms.
Learn First, Post Second (Score:3, Insightful)
There are several reasons what you said was just plain wrong. There were a lot of ways to avoid the RPC (MSBlast) worm. First, you could have patched when the patch was first released. It pre-dated the worm by several weeks. Second, you could have been running the built-in XP firewall. Third, you could have been running a 3rd party software firewall such as ZoneAlarm. Fourth, you could have been behind a firewall on another box or behind a hard
Lucky? (Score:5, Insightful)
Lucky? Zone Alarm?? Well, at least you were able to show that you really don't know much about Windows (or at least not as much as you think you do).
Re:Huh? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Huh? (Score:3, Interesting)
True. This can happen in Linux too, though. I seem to recall Lindows gives users root by default, and from my small experience with SuSE, they seem to have something similar with being able to "save" your run-as-root permissions for apps.
Re:Huh? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Huh? (Score:3, Interesting)
I will agree with you that windows takes ease-of-use over security, though XP and 2003 have taken steps to prevent that. One thing that does cheese me off about windows though, is the fact that programs often have more power than the users that run them. Personally, I don't believe anything should have free run of the registry
Senior Programmer Analyst? (Score:3, Insightful)
Your opinion quite frankly is not very worthwhile. First, losing a home directory under any OS is a _Very_ bad thing. You can't reinstall your home directory from a CD.
Second, every user does not run as Administrator out of the box in 'MS Windows Security'.
In XP this isn't true, in Server 2003 this isn't true, in Windows 2000 this isn't tru
Re:Huh? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Insightful)
That is the *biggest* crock of shit ever, but I hear it time and time again on Slashdot.
Why on earth would would you care if your applications got borked? It's the data that's important.
Re:Huh? (Score:4, Insightful)
Btw, 'run-as' is little more than a half-assed ripoff of 'su'. Try to install a program sometime using 'run-as'. Whose permissions does the installer use? Where do the registry settings go? Why doesn't anything work?
I, and many others, are tired of fighting with half-completed MS 'features' that don't live up to the hype. Maybe, one day, Windows will have finally managed to implement all of the useful features that were designed into the UNIX and Mac OSes. Then I might consider using it. At MS' current rate of ignoring basic functionality in lieu of marketing buzzwords, though, that day will never come.
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:3, Informative)
-reboot
-install SP1 and after patch -ok
-reboot
-install ATI all in wonder drivers -ok
-reboot
computer farked to death...
so:
-install XP -ok
-reboot
-setup the video driver to "standard vga adapter"
-install ATI All in Wonder drivers (ati version not microsoft)
-install SP1 and after patch -ok
-reboot
-update ATI all in wonder drivers -ok
-reboot
-install battlefield 1942
-update battelfield
-install road to rome
-update road to rome
-install Thrustmaster tactical board driver
-reboot
-computer screwed...
go
Re:I actually got that stupid email (Score:4, Informative)
That's absurd. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Wow (Score:3, Informative)
+1 (Informative) for catching the goof in the summery.
-1 (Troll) for not reading the article. According to it (of course, they could be wrong)... "Swen represents a high level of sophistication in its ability to execute code automatically"... and "Users whose PCs are not patched against the Microsoft flaw this worm exploits will be infected just by viewing the message, as will protected users who click on the e-mail attachment"....
For an overall +/- 0.
I hate this virus (Score:3, Interesting)
And all 1.5 million (Score:4, Funny)
Re:And all 1.5 million (Score:4, Interesting)
I know how you feel. I was getting them at a rate of 1 or 2 every 10 minutes. Ugh. If you happen to be running SpamAssassin, I've got rules that seem to take care of it. Luckily for you, but unluckily for me, I was hit starting on Thursday, so I've had days to tweak the rules.
Check them out at my web site [infofiend.com]. Feel free to add comments and tweaks there. Oh, and in case you're using maildrop, you can apparently choose not to deliver the message by using if ($MAIL_IS_SPAM) { exit }
So now my own server is spam free, but unfortunately even though I use Linux at work, the mail server is an Exchange server so... *sigh*
Fascinating isn't it? (Score:5, Insightful)
Why isn't Linux and Macintosh turning this into a big propaganda opportunity? Both OS's can hold up the 'come to us, we've had our shots, we'll never get worms' flags and pray that the big media mentions it.
Re:Fascinating isn't it? (Score:2)
VIRUSES!
(Score:-1, Perpetuating Imaginary "Latin")
...Not a Good Idea (R) (Score:5, Insightful)
Hypothetical advertisement: "Hey, we're Macs, and we don't have viruses."
I guarantee you that every virus writer and his(/her?) grandmother would flock to OS X and start writing viruses with reckless abandon. Apple, Linux, Amiga, Commodore 64, and whatever other less-used operating system is probably perfectly happy to have its users sitting fat, dumb, and happy and not bragging about it.
How did that get mod'ed "insightful"? (Score:3, Informative)
Windows has a lot of viruses because it is so easy to execute a program and infect the operating system.
The more restrictions you put on that access, the more difficult you make it for a virus to spread.
Unless you're running a root, 99% of Linux users have nothing to worry about from viruses. The viruses cannot effectively spread themselves. That is why the "Linux viruses" you see are only in the labs of the anti-virus vendors.
I
Re:How did that get mod'ed "insightful"? (Score:4, Insightful)
No system is immune by design. Stupid or careless users are always crafty enough to bypass even the best security.
That is a "trojan". (Score:4, Informative)
But trojans have trouble spreading themselves. Anyone can write a Linux trojan (cd ~ ; rm -R), but it will not spread far. While you may think that the damage is bad because it happened to your machine, you represent less than 1/10,000,000'th of the total.
More people will have lost data because of hard drive failure than lose data because of Linux viruses or trojans.
Yes, if a hole is found in pine or mutt or Evolution that allows email viruses such as you describe is found, then email viruses such as you describe can be written for that application.
But an exploit for pine would not affect someone running mutt or Evolution.
Linux has a better designed security system than Windows does.
A hole in one application will only affect those people running that application and it will have to find some way of spreading to those people.
Without the means of spreading, the virus will be contained.
Without the ability to infect machines it has contact with, the virus will be contained.
Which is why there aren't any Linux viruses in the wild. Not because people aren't writing them. But because they cannot spread the infection.
Re:How did that get mod'ed "insightful"? (Score:5, Insightful)
That's true of any environment. If a windows computer uses IMAP and doesn't store the password locally it can't delete your mail either.
Who said you had to use the SMTP host on the network? Any old program that knows how can speak SMTP and mail itself out to the next victim. In fact from what the article says this virus knows how to speak SMTP. For an external MTA it's pretty hard for it to only accept SMTP sesions that use TLS as TLS is poorly supported across the internet. I know all my machines running an MTA don't have secure SMTP setup (I really don't like paying the $100 a year blood money to the damn certificate authorities).
I will agree that unix machines tend to be better administered, and are more likely to be patched better simply because the OS is less tied together and inter-dependant like windows is (and thus the huge service packs MS puts out). Take the latest openSSH patch for example. The changes were all back-ported to the version of OpenSSH running on a distribution+version. We also know exactly what changed (2 or 3 lines of code), and they're fairly simple changes. Vigourous testing of the patches isn't as pertinent as it is in the case of MS products, so patches will be applied more often.
Re:Fascinating isn't it? (Score:3, Interesting)
"Use Mac have no viruses affect you " ?
The users will sue apple to glory when they do come across Mac worms. Lets face it, worms will exist as long as there are worm writers. Unless ofcourse Mac and Linux blocks all incoming attachments (which is what my outlook express coincidentally did after a patch) you can't guarantee anyone against worms and ignorant people that will open them. Now security flaws in windows - thats an entirely different subject.
Re:Fascinating isn't it? (Score:3, Insightful)
The cost of switching for that reason alone isn't necessarily worth it on a massive scale. You switch because you're worried if your computer stops working, right? Well if the cost of the switch is that your games and some other apps stop working, then you've traded one failure for another.
I wo
Re:Fascinating isn't it? (Score:5, Interesting)
I can't speak to the plumber situation, but if you've ever listened to mechanics behind the scenes, they sound *exactly* like computer techs. Sometimes they really *do* wish they could tell people they shouldn't drive a vehicle because they're idiots. (I'm betting body shop folks do even more of that sort of griping...)
Uninterested? (Score:5, Insightful)
No troll, I'm dead serious.
I wish people took more interest in the things that they use every day and take for granted. Everything is so completely fascinating. I think that there is no better pursuit in life than to learn the hell out of everything. The way people learn one thing and then get all arrogant about it is, in my opinion, the worst behavior of all.
There are tons of things that I don't know, I don't look down on people for not knowing things. It does bother me when they refuse to learn, though.
People do awful things to their computers and people do awful things to their cars (and their plumbing!). If people took a little more time to appreciate the things that they take for granted, many of our problems would be gone.
I didn't mean for this to end up all preachy, but I don't remember where I was going. If I hadn't already typed so damn much, I'd just quit now, but hell...
Re:Fascinating isn't it? (Score:3, Insightful)
It's a lot easier to get an elitist attitude than it is to be patient with others, but understand this: while a person may look like an idiot to you for not knowing this isn't a legit update, that same person might think you are an idiot in is world of expertise, and you very well might be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn
Re:Fascinating isn't it? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re: Microsoft Ease + Linux Secure = ??? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The Viruses Will Follow (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Fascinating isn't it? (Score:5, Insightful)
The fact that Windows is so exploitable is the reason it's exploited, not the fact that it's the most widespread.
Free/OpenBSD and linux/unix have been around for quite awhile, and both are getting more usage daily. Both are on the net all over the place. Yet they're still not a target or at the very least, an unsuccessful target. Why? Security and built-in holes are kept to a minimum and usually patched in a timely manner. Some people get rooted once in awhile but it's usually their own fault or the fault of the admin that forgot to apt-get a new fixed daemon or library.
Just face it, Windows was never designed with security in mind, and all the patching in the world may never make it more secure. Once again let me reiterate: Windows is a target because it's too easy.
Heh (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Heh (Score:5, Funny)
Why not? Why make an email system that allows an unskilled user to run an untrusted executable? Seems bizarre to me.
Re:Heh (Score:3, Funny)
Re: Heh (Score:2)
> That's kind of funny, although it seems that this virus requires user interaction in order to spread, so we can't really blame M$ for this one
You can blame M$ for designing an e-mail client that executes anonymous attachments at a click.
Linux virus (Score:5, Funny)
"This is an email virus for Linux users. It works on the honor system. Upon receipt of this message, you should manually forward it to everyone in your address book, then login as root and randomly delete a bunch of files. Thank you!"
Oh yeah... (Score:5, Interesting)
My problem with all these worms is that it doesn't do anything after it propogates, so no one will really care except bandwidth-concious IT people. It should send itself out, then erase all the FAT tables on a hard drive.
Or deltree the c:\winnt or c:\windows directory (or both).
That would REALLY piss people off, who would demand that they do something to make sure that not happen again...like...I dunno...Linux or OSX?
Just a thought...
Re:Oh yeah... (Score:2)
I don't know, the file it came with was pretty large, I bet it filled up many 'normal' people's inboxes and prevented getting further mail.
Vicious worms don't survive (Score:5, Interesting)
Yes, you could make it a little more complex with time-outs or a way to select certain targets as hosts for more sending and others to destroy, but it wouldn't last and last like some of the recent worms, because it's effects would be so noticeable.
Re:Oh yeah... (Score:2)
Whew! (Score:5, Funny)
the Linux version (Score:5, Funny)
Re:the Linux version (Score:3, Funny)
Weird (Score:2, Interesting)
Virus Warning (Score:5, Funny)
Do not download, it's only there to own your system.
Re:Notice they aren't calling it DRM (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Notice they aren't calling it DRM (Score:4, Informative)
> want to add this patch ever, so stop bothering me!"?
On the windows update page after it scans for files to download, on the left hand side is a link called "Personalize windows update"
In there it lists all patches not yet installed but listed.
Turn off the checkbox for any of them you dont want to see.
Have fun.
It's not a worm, it's a virus (Score:4, Insightful)
Then again, if it did, it wouldn't be the
Re:It's not a worm, it's a virus (Score:3, Informative)
Worm Load (Score:5, Interesting)
On the bright side, deliveries of unrelated spam seem to have fallen due to the worm's load on the internet :-)
Sweet! (Score:5, Funny)
No more worries for me!
NIMBA! (Not In My Buisness AGAIN!) (Score:2)
In fact just friday I received the tail end of email bounces from a week and a half before.
it also mines usenet (Score:5, Informative)
Five of'em in one day. Of course, the rest will go into the trash automatically, but it was an interesting experience finally catching a taste of the "commoner" internet.
Accepted as the norm now? (Score:5, Insightful)
I was explaining the other day to one of my business partners not to install this virus, and to delete it right away if he gets it.
He asked me if my computer was infected, whereby I had to explain once again that running Linux, I generally don't have to worry about things like this.
But the point is, for him, computers just get viruses. And because of that, I believe that most people are thinking: "Hrm, my computer got a virus.", not "Windows let another Virus through."
So the majority of the people that aren't really computer illeterate (the majority), don't really know what to think when people tell them Linux is more secure.
Because for them, it's still running on their computer, and their 'computer' got a virus. It's just their mentality. Of course, this is simply my opinion.
Skynet is here (Score:4, Insightful)
Finally (Score:3, Funny)
html (Score:5, Interesting)
So, I have recieved a number of these (thank goodness I am running OS X) and it appears that the "notification" also contains html. So, examining the html, it appears that it actually references microsoft.com.
If I were microsoft, it appears there is a simple way to defeat this by inserting html in the referenced source that warns recipients of this sort of thing.
Wow. (Score:2, Funny)
Sobig (Score:2, Interesting)
The SPAM Connection (Score:2, Interesting)
It asks for the infected users name and email address. Great information for sending spam to.
It also asks for the users SMTP server, login name, and password. The spammer who developed this worm is looking for a way to used closed relays.
This worm is missing only 3 features, currently unreported, to be perfect. First, it should log this information and forward it in some anonymous manner (such as sending it to a few thousand people, on
Old idea new spin (Score:4, Informative)
80+ (Score:2, Informative)
The installer looks genuine too (Score:5, Informative)
Reject Executable Attachements (Score:5, Informative)
body_checks = pcre:/etc/postfix/mime_header_checks
to
http://www.securitysage.com/files/mime_header_che
but there are many regular expression filters like this one. Note, with 2.x you need to use the 'mime_header_checks' directive rather than 'body_checks'.
If you want to send someone an executable, send it to them in a zip or tar.gz.
Its not just an email worm! (Score:3, Insightful)
Oh no, this multi talented worm is:
But wait! Theres MORE! It has its own SMTP engine. It attempts to halt anti-virus processes. It alters the registry AND THEN it even disables the ability to edit the registry!
Quite a nasty beasty really. And even for us nice safe Linux/BSD users there are issues. Clogged mailboxes are at least, a nuisance, at worse, a huge bandwidth cost. Those on dialup or liimited broadband access where you pay for d/ls and uploads will notice it!
So even those of us cheerfully NOT patching frantically have consequences. The celebrations of yet another MS problem are a bit premature it seems to me. I'd rather see more outrage that such an inherently insecure and easily manipulated OS is costing ALL of us online.
Don't allow dangerous attachments (Score:4, Informative)
I'm sure there is an equilvent fix for sendmail. If you are running MS Exchange, the best way to fix your server is by taking a knife to its network cable.
W32Swen infection rate (Score:4, Informative)
Uhh, this was *NOT* forecast (Score:3, Informative)
A little reading comprehension would help, guys. There's a big difference between an annoying virus that gives you lots of email and a worm that takes out the internet.
It Appears to be a MS Patch Update (Score:3, Funny)
Windows users owe the alternative OS "sinks" big. (Score:4, Insightful)
W32.Swen is really aggrevating me over here. In the past few days I've received over 1000 copies. And I'm not terribly happy about it. I'm probably averaging at least 100 per hour during the day, and about 300 at night (when my primary e-mail system is offline).
The really irritating part? My _entire_ network consists of one OS/2 box (the e-mail client machine), and three Linux boxes. Not a single one can be infected by this virus, and not a single one could propogate it (unless I explicitly wanted to do so, which I don't).
Now thankfully I'm on a pretty decent cable modem service here (really good speed), bogofilter was quickly trained to detect and toss these messages into a SPAM folder (where they quickly get deleted), and my mail client (PMMail/2) has a remote control feature that allows me to scan message titles on the server and delete the messages without downloading them.
But still -- imagine if this weren't an immune OS/2 machine, but one of the Windows machines that could be infected. I could very well be propogating these as well. But because of my good choices in OS's, I don't.
Thus, I think I'm doing a public service by _not_ running Windows and propogating these viruses, but instead act as a sink to prevent them from propogating. My machine is the end-of-the-line for these viruses -- even though getting thousands of e-mail is highly annoying, my machine (in effect) "kills" the ones I receive, causing their propogation lines to end.
I think Windows users on the Internet owe those of us who run other operating systems, and they owe us big. They can start paying up by PROPERLY PATCHING THEIR SYSTEMS!!! (Stopping sending me $^&*%^&!! hundreds of copies of W32.Swen would be really helpful as well).
Yaz.
Swen is NOT A WORM (Score:3, Insightful)
"Classified as a worm because of its ability to copy itself without infecting host files..."
What a bunch of morons!
Lets look at what distinguishes a Virus from a Worm: .exe and .doc files so that when they are launched or opened the virus will then spread further.
A virus requires user interaction to spread. A virus can be a self standing executable (such as Swen) or it can infect other files such as
A Worm is self propagating and does not require any user interaction to spread. Worms rely on holes that exist in the underlying operating system to inject their code into applications already running in memory. Once they have infected the target machine, the worm will then self propagate to other similarly unpatched machines.
With this simple definition, where do they get off calling swen a worm, when the swen virus clearly requires some dumb schmoe to click on the executable file that is included as an attachment in an email? Once the genius launches the bogus.exe file, it then searches the newly infected machine to harvest email addresses to send itself to. There is no 'automatic execution' of code here.
Re:Swen IS TOO a worm (Score:3, Insightful)
Swen runs as a program, a malicious program. That is what makes it a virus.
Swen does not rely on a vulnerability to spread. It does not require Microsoft Outlook to spread, (although outlook certainly helps), as it spreads just as well if you're using Outlook, Eudora, Netscape, Hotmail, Yahoo, WHATEVER!
All you must be doing is running an MS operating system.
There is no patch for stupid
Linux and OS X users get shafted too (Score:3, Interesting)
Anywho, I've always just shook my head and wondered why people put up with MS shiite but it's never directly affected me (indirectly, yes) until now. I am simply sick of seeing virus infected emails, emails from my ISP saying I had an email with a virus, emails from friends warning me about the latest worm even though I don't use Windows and reading stories of Mac and Linux users losing services at universities because the staff is too busy patching f*ing Windows boxes.
As most of us do, at work we use Windows. I had a project that needed to go out this week and we were pulling files over the WAN. The bandwidth was nearly zero. IT eventually found out it was a bunch of desktops in a completely unrelated office that were SMSing the remote server I was accessing to death but they didn't have time to fix it because they were too busy fighting virii on the west coast. Project gets delayed.
I hate them. I want to see Linux kill Microsoft. Their ill-gotten reign must end. The Penguin must draw and quarter Bill & Co. and burn their remains. I am tired of having to be bothered by Windows and their sheep-like user-herds. I want to use my Mac without having it affected by the crap that spews out of Redmond. I want to know why people aren't looking at Macs and Linux more seriously. I want to know why Apple and IBM are siezing the moment and using this time to educate the masses. I want to know why the MCSE monkeys continue to be blind to the failure of thier preferred OS.
BTW, as you know, I really want Linux to annihilate MS, just don't kill Apple in the process, I like them
Swen (Score:4, Informative)
GET http://ww2.fce.vutbr.cz/bin/counter.gif/link=bacil lus&width=6&set=cnt006 HTTP/
1.0
ww2.fce.vutbr.cz
The first was a counter. At the time I checked it had well over a million hits and was going up FAST. At the time I'd been hit by about 20 copies of the virus. The next morning the counter was taken down and replaced with a warning. At that time I'd been "hit" over 70 times by the virus.
There seems to be variations to the emails that contain the virus. The main one is a 160K email that contains an attachmentwith a content type of Application/X-MSDOWNLOAD. The second is about 148K is size and the attachment has the content type of Audio/X-WAV. There are some emails that are 16K in size but the attachment is a zero length file. I've also been getting emails claiming to be "bounces" from Yahoo and other ISP's saying I'm trying to send a virus infected email to someone. But the Received lines show the the email is not from Yahoo. So far I've received over 170 of these damn things.
Then there are all of the real ISP's who are not helping the problem. I keep getting warnings claiming that someone I don't know tried to send me an email with a virus. Thank you, but your anti-virus software just sent out a useless email and just accomplished one of the goals of swen, to clog up email servers. Send an email to the moron who is currently infected and stop sending out thousands of emails telling everyone else about it.
This may sound harsh, but I'm really hoping the next big Microsoft worm or virus will disable the infected comupters.
Huh? (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, I rather thought it pretended to be a REAL Microsoft patch.
Big Deal. Norton Handles It Fine (Score:3, Funny)
"Norton AntiVirus removed the attachment: Qz.exe.
The attachment was infected with the Worm.Automat.AHB virus."
Ho hum.
Re:Big Deal. Norton Handles It Fine (Score:3, Insightful)
Ho hum.
My e-mail server (Score:3, Interesting)
The e-mail is very deceptive and looks like real e-mail sent from Microsoft. Other than being a pain in the ass it's almost as fun as being