"Microsoft" Patch Virus Messages

[Alan]

Does anyone know if the flurry of these things appearing in the newsgroups
recently is due to people maliciously sending them, or if the virus is
sending itself to addresses in the users address book?

 

[Debra Dalgleish]

The virus can find newsgroup addresses and post messages there. From the
information on the following page:

http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/swen.shtml

"The worm can post its e-mails to newsgroups, the names of which it
finds during searching process. The worm sends the same kind of messages
as it sends via e-mail. "

 

[Don Guillett]

I thought the ng owner had banned ALL attachments.??

 

[Myrna Larson]

If a person gets infected, presumably the virus sends the message to every entry in the address
book(s). Does anybody know whether this happens repeatedly, or just once? i.e. could one
infected person be responsible for hundreds of posts to the same newsgroup?

Thanks Debra,
If its not idiots sending these on purpose, then a lot
of people are infected!
Alan.