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[Michael Hipp]

Bob Hemus wrote:
> The server from which I receive my mail started using <postini.com> for 
> a mail filter.  Up 'til yesterday they mostly screened spam with an 
> occasional virus, may one or two a week.  Starting late Thursday through 
> Friday there were 29 messages that they had flagged for spam.  Have you 
> folks been bombarded like that?
> 
> I just downloaded my mail again and their was another "patch" for M$ 
> with this header:
> 
> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:28:19 +1200 (FJT)
> From: "MS Corporation Network Security Section" 
> <fhmiueubixwaxv_kdpxoxtd at xewymf.com>
> To: "Consumer" <eehyekou.bwtsmf at xewymf.com>
> Subject: Last Upgrade
> 
> Is this a new worm, virus, t-horse, or?
> Bob

I get a goodly number of these every week. They slacked off for a while 
but have started again just in the last few days. I believe it's a 
trojan but I haven't bothered to dig into it. Quite clever and well done 
if you look at the fully-rendered HTML version. No doubt alot of people 
are falling for it.

Michael