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Tom Sweeney
01-27-2004, 11:43 PM
well folks - there's a new worm in town - I've deleted almost 300 emails in the last coupla hours that were flagged as having a virus attached. I've long since stopped trying to figure out which virus or who they come from. Most virii today spoof the from address anyway so it's difficult to track down were they really came from.

I will say that I'm pretty sure this one is from someone at SMC or WoodCentral. Many of the email domains I recognized as belonging to members of the forums. Apparantly someone or some people with a lot fo ww'ers emails in there outlook address book is infected.

Also for some reason a lot of them "seem" to have a .au domain for some reason.
Here is a link to a story about it.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040128/wr_nm/tech_worm_dc_16

& here is a link to Norton's (symantec) info about it
http://sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.novarg.a@mm.html

PLEASE EVERYONE GET / UPDATE REGULARLY A GOOD A/V PROGRAM!!!
I really don't have time to delete 300 messages & run random A/V system checks -(it runs automatically regularly - but with so many I had to do it a few times to be sure.)