Latest Version of Fucking Worm
 

Anyone else getting hammered with emails generated by that new variant of the Microsoft Critical Update worm, W32.Swen.A@mm?

I'm getting hundreds of mails per day for the last three days. They're all being caught by either my ISPs, Outlook or Norton, but I still end up with a System notification, a "bounced mail" notification, and, in some cases, despite having set up filters against them, a full version of the mail with the attachment still on-board.

I want scum-sucking virus-writing hacker fucks to die a painful death, preferably by being electrocuted by the power supply on their cobbled-together, half-ass, stolen computer systems.

Whew...glad I go that out of my system.

Thanks for reminding me! I need to run Windows Update on this thing.

I've done all that, but it doesn't keep you from getting all the damned emails generated from the 1.5 million and counting infected machines of people who haven't....sigh.

Yeah, I've been getting a ton of e-mails regarding "MS Critical Updates" myself...probably 20 or so in the last 2 days.

That's funny. I don't get any spam. 'Cause I don't give out my email address.

And even if I did, junk mail protection in Thunderbird and Apple's Mail.app works well enough that you can call one of them Spam and the rest will be automatically deleted. http://mozilla.org for those interested in Thunderbird.

Moz has been catching most of them...it actually catches...*thinks*...maybe 80-90% of all my spam.

I knew it wouldn't take long for someone to mention Apple in all of this... :p

Unfortunately, these things come with about 1000 slightly different "From" and "Subject" lines, so it makes filtering difficult.

No, it's smart filtering. It might be difficult for the engineers that write the software, but not you. You click "Junk" and it learns *very* quickly. I "trained" mine for about two months before letting it loose. Haven't gotten a single spam since.

I had a similar program running before I revamped my whole system. I had only been training it for a few weeks, and I hadn't been terribly impressed. Guess I wasn't patient enough.

Looks like a lot of people who had been off for the weekend got back to work and fired up infected computers or something...this morning, 80% of my email is this "MS Update" shit.

Re: Latest Version of Fucking Worm
 

Let's hear it for the hackers who were paid to write an OS with these kind of holes in it, too.

I've now installed PopFile, and, while a bit unwieldy (web-based UI, for one thing), it is doing a pretty darn good job catching the shit now...well, that and Norton. I have had nearly 100 MS Update worm-generated emails today.