Newsgroups Email Bug

[Bob Barnes]

Have to ask this somewhere.

2 of us in Kentucky & a Canadian User (all 3 of us use
the MS Access Newsgroups) for the last 2 weeks are getting
60 - 100 "MS Bogus Emails" a day.

"Source" examples are "Microsoft Corporation Security
Division", "Internet Security
Center", "Admin", "Postmaster", "microsoft inet message
storage system", etc. --> "Newest Microsoft Update",
"Last Network Update", "Failure report", "Error letter",
etc.

An example Attachment is "DELETED0.TXT", which may be
the "virus".

Welcome any discussion of others experiencing this.

TIA - Bob

 

[Lynn Trapp]

Bob,
Literally 10's of thousands of people around the world are experiencing
this. It's not a bug but a virus that is replicating itself.

 

[Bob Barnes]

Lynn - Thank you.

Any super Norton, F-Prot, etc fixes ?

Bob

 

[Lynn Trapp]

Yeah, check with Norton for the Swen virus.

--
Lynn Trapp
MS Access MVP
www.ltcomputerdesigns.com
Access Security: www.ltcomputerdesigns.com/Security.htm

 

[Bob Barnes]

We checked Google (found Swen info) & www.sarc.com.
But it was unclear as if Norton will nail it completely.

We have Norton, & yes the Virus Attachment is deleted, but
we can't stop the Emails from arriving.

Hardly an Access discussion. Sorry...

Thank you

 

[Lynn Trapp]

We have Norton, & yes the Virus Attachment is deleted, but

we can't stop the Emails from arriving.

No, you are not getting them because YOU have the virus, but because
somebody else does. Not much that can be done to stop them.

Hardly an Access discussion. Sorry...

True, but we'll survive it.

 

[Bob Barnes]

Thanks again Lynn.

Yes, we will survive.

Bob

-----Original Message-----

No, you are not getting them because YOU have the virus, but because
somebody else does. Not much that can be done to stop them.

True, but we'll survive it.



--
Lynn Trapp
MS Access MVP
www.ltcomputerdesigns.com
Access Security: www.ltcomputerdesigns.com/Security.htm


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[robert]

Thanks for the discussion. I've been doing a tip-toe
around those e-mails too, and the only advice I've gotten
is the same advice. Hope someone stamps it out somehow.

Isn't there some way to automatically bump that bounce-
back mail?

Robert

 

[Bob Barnes]

Our IT guys (& girls) say we can't stop it.

I understand if a Sending Address can be identified, that
can stop all Emails from that source. Looks like we'll
have to ride it out. But as long as others don't clean
the virus, it'll be like the weakest link in a chain.

HTH - Bob