Julian V. Noble said:
Dear C Mavens,
Anyone here getting hosts of spam with nefarious attachments,
purporting to be from M$ or its lackeys, into your mailbox?
I neglected to spoof my header, and since Hurricane Isabel
I have gotten well over 10K such messages.
Since 2003/9/18 I have received about 4000 copies of the worm
Swen.A. That's about 600 megabytes added to my monthly quota
I think a lot of people on comp.lang.c are affected according to a bounce message I received:
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The file (part0004:q834994.exe) attached to mail (with subject: Current Net Critical Pack) sent by
sales.dep-at-xnet.ro to jens.toerring-at-physik.fu-berlin.de, 80bluesky-at-gmx.at,
calum.bulk-at-ntlworld.com, jacob.navia-at-jacob.remcomp.fr, thomas.pfaff-at-tiscali.no,
nicole0169-at-citiz.net, christian.bau-at-cbau.freeserve.co.uk, sbiber-at-optushome.com.au,
foo.foo-at-gmx.net, debashis_kolkata-at-rediffmail.com, nimel-at-passagen.se, a.litowka-at-gmx.de,
gah-at-ugcs.caltech.edu, gin-at-binky.homeunix.org, dagwyn-at-null.net, mambuhl-at-earthlink.net,
mason_verger-at-skincare.com, lawrence.jones-at-eds.com, klachemin-at-home.com,
pyf-at-mail.zjitc.net, nzanella-at-cs.mun.ca, francischeng-at-hong-kong.crosswinds.net,
jcook-at-strobedata.com, emonk-at-slingshot.co.nz.no.uce, pushkar-at-erc.msstate.edu,
lfw-at-airmail.net, binary-at-eton.powernet.co.uk, airia-at-acay.com.au, chris-at-sonnack.com,
kst-at-cts.com, derkgwen-at-hotpop.com, dontmail-at-address.co.uk.invalid, mkwahler-at-mkwahler.net,
os2guy-at-pc-rosenau.de, richmond-at-ev1.net, horpner-at-yahoo.com, nglen702-at-netscape.net,
stewart.brodie-at-ntlworld.com, ayeameen-at-yahoo.com, parinioa-at-hotmail.com,
malcolm-at-55bank.freeserve.co.uk, joewwright-at-earthlink.net, m_donaghy50-at-hotmail.com,
robertvazan-at-privateweb.sk, kevin.bracey-at-tematic.com, dan.pop-at-cern.ch, thadsmith-at-acm.org,
nethlek-at-tokyo.com, koster_thomas-at-yahoo.com.sg, ajo-at-andrew.cmu.edu,
first.last-at-company.com, aurer-at-axis.com, palaste-at-cc.helsinki.fi, eric.sosman-at-sun.com,
msgregoryz-at-earthlink.net, kers-at-hpl.hp.com, d99alu-at-efd.lth.se, cmccormick-at-mailsnare.net,
chrisval-at-bigpond.com.au, kuyper-at-saicmodis.com, deliberately-at-made.invalid,
ak+usenet-at-freeshell.org, irrwahn-at-freenet.de, xal-at-abowers.combase.com,
s030768-at-student.dtu.dk, pfiland-at-mindspring.com, scs-at-eskimo.com, noizetogo-at-direct.ca,
glenhallick-at-sprint.ca, cdvanos-at-telus.net, n36170-at-hotmail.com, me-at-here.com,
danmc-at-shaw.ca, magpie-at-shinythings.com, keimdf-at-softek-net.com is infected with virus:
Win32/Swen.A-at-mm.