[Groff] Re: Spam and virus cruft on address@hidden

[Ted Harding]

Folks (and admins)

It looks as though the spam has died down now.
>From a bit of research, it looks as though someone has been
infected with the virus "Worm.Nyxem": see

  http://www.viruslist.com/eng/viruslist.html?id=1245530

It may not have been anyone on our list. According to the
above description,

  "This worm spreads via the Internet as an attachment to
   infected messages. It also spreads via Yahoo Pager and
   MSN Messenger."

  "Propagation
   The worm uses its own library (ossmtp.dll, oswinsck.dll)
   to send messages via smtp.
   The worm harvests email addresses from Yahoo and MSN
   Messenger, and also scans files with the extensions .htm
   and .dbx to harvest addresses."

So there is the possibility that someone infected with this
virus may have picked up "sender" and "target" email addresses
when the infected user was browsing the web.

Ah well, back to "pipe and slippers" for a bit -- I hope!
Best wishes to all,
Ted.


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Date: 02-Apr-04                                       Time: 10:11:42
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