Re: [Sheflug] Microsoft patches

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet " Chris Johnson" uttered these words of wisdom:
> Is it just me or is there a spate of Microsoft emails going round with
> "the
> latest patch" as an attachment.  I'm just deleting them.  Does anyone know
> what they are?  Trojan?  Virus?  Worm?
>


W32/Swen [at] MM (aka W32/Gibe-F). I've blacklisted incoming mail to all my
usenet addresses as they're getting hammered horribly. I think I bounced
50 or 60 yesterday, and had a good 150 since it first appeared.

Symantec have a good description about it. I'd dig out the URL but I'm
hungry and it's lunch time :)

Chris...

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