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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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