"Stu Charlton" <stuartc_at_mac.com> wrote in message
news:21398ab6.0309200725.36196799_at_posting.google.com...
> "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:<3f6bd495$0$6526$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> > Well, the title might be a bit dramatic, and I imagine it's happening to
> > others as well, but in the last 48 hours, my yahoo mailbox has been
filling
> > every 2 hours with 'Would you like to install this Microsoft Patch
(a.k.a a
> > virus)' mails. They are about 150K each, and within 2 hours, my mailbox
is
> > full.
>
> My mac.com mailbox has been getting the same thing, around 50 mails
> every 4 hours. But fortunately they've been stripping all of the
> attachments out through the server-based anti virus software. Around
> 1 in 20 attachments seems to get through which might imply the worm is
> mutating ....
It may do, or it may mean that the ISP has disinfected the thing and then
sent it on to you :(
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
Received on Mon Sep 22 2003 - 03:33:41 CDT
