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October 12th 03, 06:01 PM
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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 
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