[Ti] Sudden Spate of Viruses

[Robert Nicholson]

I filtered all spam into a special folder and I also recognise certain 
attachments and strip them out as they arrive.

I'm getting these bogus Microsoft  Security Fix emails every day.

On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 05:03  PM, T.L.Miller wrote:

> Fri, Sep 19, 2003 11:58 PM cbirds at earthlink.net cbirds said:
>
>> Is anyone else getting a sudden onslaught of virii from .nl, and what
>> looks to be a mock up of Microsoft virus fix newsletter of some sort?
>> It's obvious these have faked return addresses but I see in the 
>> headers
>> that some have come from .nl, adelphia, comcast, and mindspring
>> (earthlink)
>>
>> It's on this address only.....getting sick of deleting them.
>
> Yes, every day I get the types of messages you describe, but not from 
> .nl.
>
> Related to this virus problem was an article this week in the Wall 
> Street
> Journal that roughly said:
> the threat of malicious viruses/worms that takes advantage of some
> vulnerability where no patch yet exists has some businesses exploring 
> the
> possibility of using diverse operating systems. Among the alternative
> OSes mentioned were the Mac, Sun's and Lindows. 4000 "viruses and other
> forms of malicious code" have been launched against Windows so far in 
> '03
> and none against the Mac since 2001 and only 11 aganist Unix this year.
> "Day-zero" refers to zero days of warning.
>
>
>
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