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| From | Miles Goosens <outdoorminer@mindspring.com> |
| Subject | virus, gonna kill ya |
| Date | Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:01:56 -0500 |
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Apologies for the cross-posting, but just in case someone said something of importance to me between the hours of 9 AM and 2 PM CDT today, thought I'd cast my net broadly...
Today I checked my e-mail before leaving the house (8:30 AM CDT or thereabouts), and everything was OK.
Work was busy this morning and I didn't get a chance to check it again until around 1 PM. My 10 MB Mindspring inbox was completely full, and, in fact, appears to have filled up shortly after 9 AM. It looks like someone forged my e-mail as the "reply-to" address on a massive virus mailing, and I got hit with all the bounces -- well, that, or someone hit me with several hundred copies of a virus that masquerades as a legitimate bounce, or a combination thereof.
Anyway, at 40-43K a pop, it didn't take long for them to overwhelm my account. They're still trickling in, as a matter of fact.
I don't think my computers were used to send them -- the home PC is behind the router's hardware firewall, there's nothing suspicious in my Webmail "Sent" folder, and Norton Anti-Virus regularly scans all my machines. I'll take another look at everything today to see if something slipped past the defenses.
Anyway, if you sent me anything since 9 AM this morning, I haven't seen it. And I'll probably have to re-subscribe to a lot of e-mail lists. Bother.
later,
Miles
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