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[Brett I. Holcomb]

It's not new.  It's been around awhile.  It hit hard, slacked off and seems 
to be picking up again.  With Christmas coming I imagine a lot of people 
have bought brand new boxes from Dell, etc. with XP and are providing a lot 
of new targets for these trojans to infect and annoy us <G>.

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

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Brett I. Holcomb
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