Re: Worm and Virus attack

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From: Active8
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:27

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>    Those *****.exe are garbage names to hide the worm.automat.abh, or
> another variation of the worm.

i know. many worms generate a new random filename each time they 
propagate.
> 
>    I have received over 2200 in the past 24 hours.  (1857 in the last 12
> hours) I use Mailwasher to delete them, but they were coming in so fast
> I couldn't dump the mailbox before the Earthlink mail server would time
> out.
> 

wow. i'm only at 83. that's around 30 more since the last time i posted, 
which was the post you replied to. if you really mean that you deleted 
them rather than bounced them, ouch. you may or may not have confirmed a 
valid e-mail addy.

mike

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