All the Spam I get from posting to NG???

[mr u]

Lately I have been getting enormous amounts of similar emails supposedly
from MS (which it is obviously not) with attachment files telling me to
install them.

Why has there been such a recent flood of this garbage. I stopped posting
awhile ago with my real address because this, but I am still getting the
crap. How long do these spam programs keep sending this stuff to the same
addresses for?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

it'll continue as long as people are infected... fortunately it's slowing
from the past two weeks.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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[mr u]

Is it using other people's computers to send this stuff? Is it like a worm
that keeps sending itself to other people?

it'll continue as long as people are infected... fortunately it's slowing
from the past two weeks.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours

http://www.poremsky.com - http://www.cdolive.com

Expert Zone http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

Search for answers: http://groups.google.com
Most recent posts to the Outlook newsgroups:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=microsoft.public.outlook.*&num=30

Lately I have been getting enormous amounts of similar emails supposedly
from MS (which it is obviously not) with attachment files telling me to
install them.

Why has there been such a recent flood of this garbage. I stopped posting
awhile ago with my real address because this, but I am still getting the
crap. How long do these spam programs keep sending this stuff to the same
addresses for?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Yes. it gets names from any file on the users computer - news posts,
webpages etc. Al of the AV sites have more information about it... here is
one sites take on it http://www.viruslist.com/eng/viruslist.html?id=88029

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Is it using other people's computers to send this stuff? Is it like a worm
that keeps sending itself to other people?

it'll continue as long as people are infected... fortunately it's slowing
from the past two weeks.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours

http://www.poremsky.com - http://www.cdolive.com

Expert Zone http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

Search for answers: http://groups.google.com
Most recent posts to the Outlook newsgroups:

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=microsoft.public.outlook.*&num=30