Re: Is it only me getting all these viruses ?

Scott Burns wrote: > tbarth@barth-rz.de wrote: > >> I have many, many documents with viruses in my inbox. they are sorted out >> but my mail admin is getting angry. Are there any problems ? >> >> > Yes. People run windows without bothering with personal firewalls which > prevent unauthorised programs from accessing the internet. Also, IE > will allow programs to connect thorugh it rendering these firewalls > ineffective. And, of course, people run the programs in the first place... > > Are the viruses coming from this list? I don't see any on the news > groups, although I've seen them on others. > > If not, then there is nothing anyone here can do. If you have a mail > admin there is likely little you can do to stop them appearing in your > inbox. It's really up to your admin to filter them out, but there is > probably little even they can do. > > When I got 64 copies last friday I had a chuckle. I run Linux so I'm > not at risk. I've now received 1243 and I've heard of people in the > tens of thousands. The joke has worn thin. I'm of the opinion that > people who run windows deserve everything they get, but not even running > Linux is protecting me from this one... > Go to the web sites: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.swen.a@mm.html and also http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/swen.shtml and also http://www.bitdefender.com/html/virusinfo.php?menu_id=1&v_id=158 You'll see that the code does poke around NNTP (net news groups), so if you've posted to news groups, your more vulnerable to the email. My machine has 745 copies of the virus in the trash folder, accumulated in the last 12 hours or so. I've lost track of how many I deleted before that - but it was a significant quantity. What puzzles me is that there has been so little fuss made about it in the regular media. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/