All these correction packs, can't be genuine, must be virus ?

[only_me]

Whats happend to the ASP groups over the last couple of days - seem to be
'spam'ed to all over the place - used to be reasonably immune

I assume all these "check this correction patch......." stuff must be from a
new virus, not seen one hitting newgroups before - since MS never sends
patches by email - anyone know its name

[Aaron Bertrand [MVP]]

They've been working on the filter, and resetting the newsgroup servers.
But they can't catch all of them, hopefully their process is getting
better...

> Whats happend to the ASP groups over the last couple of days - seem to be
> 'spam'ed to all over the place - used to be reasonably immune
>
> I assume all these "check this correction patch......." stuff must be from

a

> new virus, not seen one hitting newgroups before - since MS never sends
> patches by email - anyone know its name

[Ken Schaefer]

It is a virus:
[url]http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.swen.a@mm.html[/url]
which attempts to spread itself via email, IRC, newsgroups and the Kazaa
network.

Cheers
Ken

"only_me" <only_me_cbartley@totalise.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ydDdb.776$Rw3.323@newsfep1-gui.server.ntli.net...
: Whats happend to the ASP groups over the last couple of days - seem to be
: 'spam'ed to all over the place - used to be reasonably immune
:
: I assume all these "check this correction patch......." stuff must be from
a
: new virus, not seen one hitting newgroups before - since MS never sends
: patches by email - anyone know its name
:
:

[Michael D. Kersey]

Aaron Bertrand [MVP] wrote:

> They've been working on the filter, and resetting the newsgroup servers.
> But they can't catch all of them, hopefully their process is getting
> better...

They should disallow attachments and limit post size (toss a post if it
exceeds the limit).

[Aaron Bertrand [MVP]]

> They should disallow attachments and limit post size (toss a post if it

> exceeds the limit).

I agree. Unfortunately, it has been tough to convince the rest of the
crowd, but not for lack of trying...