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Eric Greenwell wrote:

| I've been receiving about 15 emails a day for several days with the
| Swen virus attached. Since this is the most likely group to have the
| email address I use here, I suggest anyone with this address do a
| virus scan on their computer.

The virus is not coming from a computer of someone reading this
newsgroup (at least it is not likely). The SWEN virus ("NEWS, spelled
backwards) has a list of open NNTP News servers to which it connects and
harvests email addresses from current news postings.
See http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/swen.shtml for more details.

Best thing you can do is post with a "munged" email address (as you now
appear to be doing), but your unmunged address will continue to be
harvested as long as it exists on various news servers.

-- Tim Olson