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[OM] Re: OT scam virus?

Subject: [OM] Re: OT scam virus?
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:16:38 -0400
I am SO glad I'm using Mailwasher.  It allows me to inspect, delete and 
blacklist in advance.

John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington, NY, 11743-4714,
631-424-2121, www.zuiko.com
Olympus OM Service since 1977
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John A. Lind" <jalind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 11:18 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: OT scam virus?


> At 07:36 AM 4/20/2005, John Hermanson wrote:
>
>>Here's a new one.  Someone sends you an email and says that somehow HE is
>>getting your email on his account.  So far, 10 emails have come in. As a
>>'favor' he's compressed them into a zip file and attached them.  Attached
>>file is about 74K.  More likely it's a virus, worm, trojan.  Mail 
>>originates
>>from Denmark. Do not open.
>
> Not just likely a worm . . . it *is* a worm . . . I have been getting them
> off and on since the beginning of April . . . three today . . . all
> identified as "W32/Mytob.gen@MM" . . . my log shows having received (and
> quashed) 15 of them including the minor variants.
>
> I've also noted a quantum leap in SPAM very recently.  So has my 
> employer's
> IT department and their "filtering" of it at the firewalls isn't working
> very well any more.  So much for the efficacy of the CAN-SPAM Act.
>
> -- John Lind
>


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