New VIRUS warning

I use MailWasher so the crap stuff never makes it into my 'real' inbox.
There were about 25 of them in my MailWasher & another 22 in my Yahoo mail
box today.

Sure wish the people that do this would get a life & leave us alone.
--
Donna in Idaho!
Project Linus Boise/SW Idaho Coordinator
Website: http://donnakwilts.tripod.com/

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline!

"Queen of Squishies" wrote in message
hlink.net...
I got that virus, in various forms, at least 15 times today! I wondered
why
Norton wasn't catching it. Thanks for explaining. I have so far managed
to
not get infected. They are GONE, gone, GONE!

Karen, Queen of Squishies

Lucky me, I'm not on that list yet...but thanks for the warning. Appreciate
it!

--
Carolyn in The Old Pueblo

If it ain't broke, you aren't trying. --Red Green
If it ain't broke, it ain't mine. Carolyn McCarty

"georg" wrote in message
...
Monique Reed wrote:

Today I got an e-mail supposedly from Microsoft Tech Support that
contained what was alleged to be a security patch for their system.
What the attachment contained was, in fact, a virus so new that many
antivirus programs don't detect it. My husband, who's the departmental
computer guru, submitted it to Symantec (Norton) and had the virus
identified for me. It's so new that their definition is still a beta.
Information about this virus can be found at:




This new virus is called Swen (or variants thereof), and already I've
received other copies of it. One subject line was about "Security
Update" and the other was "Computer Patch." If it's like other
viruses, there will soon be other subject lines and many spoofed
"From" headers.

I'm being spammed by these messages today. I've gotten about 20 of these
messages so far.

-georg

Just an update...I'm up to 30 within the last 6 hours.


"Addie" wrote in message
...
I just received this same e-mail twice. I also received it about a month
ago when the last scare was out. Thanks again for warning everyone.

Addie


"Monique Reed" wrote in message
...
Today I got an e-mail supposedly from Microsoft Tech Support that
contained what was alleged to be a security patch for their system.
What the attachment contained was, in fact, a virus so new that many
antivirus programs don't detect it. My husband, who's the departmental
computer guru, submitted it to Symantec (Norton) and had the virus
identified for me. It's so new that their definition is still a beta.
Information about this virus can be found at:




This new virus is called Swen (or variants thereof), and already I've
received other copies of it. One subject line was about "Security
Update" and the other was "Computer Patch." If it's like other
viruses, there will soon be other subject lines and many spoofed
"From" headers.

A few common-sense things to remember about emails and the
viruses that come with them.

1) It is very easy to make an email appear to come from somewhere
different than the real source. Do not assume, just because the
email says it is from Microsoft, Apple, Norton/Symantec, McAfee,
or some other source that you might ordinarily trust, that it really
is from that company. The same goes for emails from people you
know that don't make sense and are asking you to open an
attachment.

2) Microsoft does not email patches for systems. (It doesn't like to
admit there are flaws!) Neither do any of the major software firms,
for just this reason. If you think about it, how would a company know
exactly which patches your system needed, anyway? If you are
suspicious of an email, and you should be when it contains an
attachment, DON'T OPEN IT! Talk to your Sysadmin.

3) Do go and download the newest version of your antivirus software on
a frequent and regular basis. (Some weeks there are five or more new
definitions!)

Have a great day!

Monique in drizzmal
College Station

Just so you know. I've had a bunch of these today also and Norton wasn't
catching them. I went to the Symantec site below and manually downloaded the
update.........and voila...Norton just caught two of them. I also learned
that Automatic Update only occurs once a week--on Wednesday (yesterday) so
it would have been six more days before my definitions were updated.

Betty

"Addie" wrote in message
...
Just an update...I'm up to 30 within the last 6 hours.


"Addie" wrote in message
...
I just received this same e-mail twice. I also received it about a
month
ago when the last scare was out. Thanks again for warning everyone.

Addie


"Monique Reed" wrote in message
...
Today I got an e-mail supposedly from Microsoft Tech Support that
contained what was alleged to be a security patch for their system.
What the attachment contained was, in fact, a virus so new that many
antivirus programs don't detect it. My husband, who's the departmental
computer guru, submitted it to Symantec (Norton) and had the virus
identified for me. It's so new that their definition is still a beta.
Information about this virus can be found at:




This new virus is called Swen (or variants thereof), and already I've
received other copies of it. One subject line was about "Security
Update" and the other was "Computer Patch." If it's like other
viruses, there will soon be other subject lines and many spoofed
"From" headers.

A few common-sense things to remember about emails and the
viruses that come with them.

1) It is very easy to make an email appear to come from somewhere
different than the real source. Do not assume, just because the
email says it is from Microsoft, Apple, Norton/Symantec, McAfee,
or some other source that you might ordinarily trust, that it really
is from that company. The same goes for emails from people you
know that don't make sense and are asking you to open an
attachment.

2) Microsoft does not email patches for systems. (It doesn't like to
admit there are flaws!) Neither do any of the major software firms,
for just this reason. If you think about it, how would a company know
exactly which patches your system needed, anyway? If you are
suspicious of an email, and you should be when it contains an
attachment, DON'T OPEN IT! Talk to your Sysadmin.

3) Do go and download the newest version of your antivirus software on
a frequent and regular basis. (Some weeks there are five or more new
definitions!)

Have a great day!

Monique in drizzmal
College Station

I discovered this today as well.

Addie

"Betty in Wi" wrote in message
...
Just so you know. I've had a bunch of these today also and Norton wasn't
catching them. I went to the Symantec site below and manually downloaded
the
update.........and voila...Norton just caught two of them. I also learned
that Automatic Update only occurs once a week--on Wednesday (yesterday) so
it would have been six more days before my definitions were updated.

Betty

"Addie" wrote in message
...
Just an update...I'm up to 30 within the last 6 hours.


"Addie" wrote in message
...
I just received this same e-mail twice. I also received it about a
month
ago when the last scare was out. Thanks again for warning everyone.

Addie


"Monique Reed" wrote in message
...
Today I got an e-mail supposedly from Microsoft Tech Support that
contained what was alleged to be a security patch for their system.
What the attachment contained was, in fact, a virus so new that many
antivirus programs don't detect it. My husband, who's the
departmental
computer guru, submitted it to Symantec (Norton) and had the virus
identified for me. It's so new that their definition is still a
beta.
Information about this virus can be found at:





This new virus is called Swen (or variants thereof), and already
I've
received other copies of it. One subject line was about "Security
Update" and the other was "Computer Patch." If it's like other
viruses, there will soon be other subject lines and many spoofed
"From" headers.

A few common-sense things to remember about emails and the
viruses that come with them.

1) It is very easy to make an email appear to come from somewhere
different than the real source. Do not assume, just because the
email says it is from Microsoft, Apple, Norton/Symantec, McAfee,
or some other source that you might ordinarily trust, that it really
is from that company. The same goes for emails from people you
know that don't make sense and are asking you to open an
attachment.

2) Microsoft does not email patches for systems. (It doesn't like to
admit there are flaws!) Neither do any of the major software firms,
for just this reason. If you think about it, how would a company
know
exactly which patches your system needed, anyway? If you are
suspicious of an email, and you should be when it contains an
attachment, DON'T OPEN IT! Talk to your Sysadmin.

3) Do go and download the newest version of your antivirus software
on
a frequent and regular basis. (Some weeks there are five or more
new
definitions!)

Have a great day!

Monique in drizzmal
College Station

I saw on CNN today that the UK has now outlawed spam and they are now
subject to prosecution and large fines. A step in the right direction I
hope, but how to catch them?

In article 5qqab.504717$YN5.337009@sccrnsc01, "Louise"
writes:

I can't believe some people have nothing better to do with their time

not people, teenagers!

I don't think it's just teenagers. I think that there are a whole lot of
really intelligent people with nothing better to do. Just think what we
could accomplish if we could put them to work doing something constructive -
like adding features to protect us from them!!!

This current one is getting really irritating, however, and I hope they
string him/them from a long slender part of his/their anatomy (and I don't
mean fingers or toes or neck). Hanging's too good for him!!

--
Teresa in Colorado

--
"WHOLEYLADY" wrote in message
...
In article 5qqab.504717$YN5.337009@sccrnsc01, "Louise"

writes:

I can't believe some people have nothing better to do with their time

not people, teenagers!

"Debbi" wrote in news:QKqab.40204$S_.4489@fed1read01:




I've been getting the same thing in my Hotmail account that I only use for
newsgroups. I haven't gotten any at all in my other email accounts.

Debbie

Teresa in Colorado wrote:
I don't think it's just teenagers. I think that there are a whole lot of
really intelligent people with nothing better to do. Just think what we
could accomplish if we could put them to work doing something constructive -
like adding features to protect us from them!!!

This current one is getting really irritating, however, and I hope they
string him/them from a long slender part of his/their anatomy (and I don't
mean fingers or toes or neck). Hanging's too good for him!!

At times there are computer virus wars between USA and China, maybe there's
one on now? Most of the viruses are targeting M$ platforms.

--
Melinda
http://cust.idl.com.au/athol