Re: Worm and Virus attack

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From: Dusty Rhodes
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:30

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Ben Bradley wrote:
> In sci.electronics.design, amcintosh@stmarytx.edu (Aubrey McIntosh)
> wrote:
>
>> I have received almost 700 copies of worm or virus mail to this
>> account in the past 24 hours.
>>
>> This has been the GIBE virus, the new "returned mail" item.
>>
>> Anyone else?
>
>
>    People are talking about obscene volumes, thousands per day, but
> I'm "only" getting a few dozen a day.

I haven't seen so much as single one, at least not the MS scam version. Only
very rarely do I see others. I figured it was due to effective counter
measures at Texas.net, but I'm not seeing it on any of my other accounts,
either. Ah, the benefits of living right, I suppose.

Cheers,

Dusty

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