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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:53:20 -0700, Jim Thompson
<Jim-T@golana-will-get-you.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:47:34 -0700, John Larkin
><jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:22:00 -0700, Jim Thompson
>><Jim-T@golana-will-get-you.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On 19 Sep 2003 12:02:11 -0700, Winfield Hill <whill@picovolt.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>Don Pearce wrote...
>>>>>
>>>>> On 19 Sep 2003 10:51:14 -0700, Aubrey >McIntosh wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have received almost 700 copies of worm or virus mail
>>>>>> to this account [snipped] in the past 24 hours.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This has been the GIBE virus, the new "returned mail" item.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone else?
>>>>>
>>>>> Everyone. At 700 you have come off lightly.
>>>>
>>>> I got over 1000 at home this morning, over 450 of them
>>>> arriving in a single 5 minute period at about 0640 EST.
>>>> Strangely, I got almost none at my work email.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>    - Win
>>>
>>>Those of us running Eudora got NONE ;-)
>>>
>>>                                        ...Jim Thompson
>>
>>Netscape, none, but I don't see how one's email client affects this.
>>At least with Netscape, unopened mail doesn't execute.
>>
>>What do the virus messages look like?
>>
>>John
>
>Eudora's address book isn't hijackable as Outhouse Excuse's is.
>
>Although I suppose I could get listed in someone's Outhouse address
>book... it's not likely... I have no friends ;-)
>
>                                        ...Jim Thompson

Got an addie? J/K :-)

Seems the thing scours the news spool and other sources besides OE's
address book. My techie.com account used to get 2 or 3 'MS updates' a
day, this latest variant has it overrun, some 200 or 300 a day since
Wednesday.

- YD.

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