Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:49:38 +0100 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org> To: Peter Schultz <pmes@btinet.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hiding e-mail adresses needed badly Message-ID: <20031016124938.354fe903.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <3F8E683F.9050200@btinet.net> References: <20031015112920.GA36404@nagual.pp.ru> <20031015132551.GA94612@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3F8E683F.9050200@btinet.net>
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 04:43:27 -0500 Peter Schultz <pmes@btinet.net> wrote: > However, since that fateful > e-mail I have been viciously attacked by spammers posing as Microsoft > security updaters. These spams include attachments making them all > around 150KB in size. Maybe others of you have seen them? Certainly have - they're not spammers it's a worm, called Swen. It targets an amazing variety of things, including every email address it can get hold of. One of my accounts gets about a hundred a day of these *still*. If you get infected it filters your inbox and removes attempts to reinfect you so that you don't see it at all.
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