Re: Please, help with the spam...

[Dan Nelson <dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the last episode (Jan 20), Bart Schaefer said:
> On Jan 20,  3:43pm, DervishD wrote:
> } That f*cking 'big@xxxxxxxx' is spamming me not thru zsh, as usual,
> } but to my own address.
> 
> The big@xxxxxxxx mail is a worm (virus), not a spam.  There's no
> single point of origin from which it can be stopped.  If you can't
> have it filtered out by your ISP or some such, you're just going to
> have to live with it until it runs its course and dies off.

For more info: 

http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.a@xxxxxxx
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99950.htm

I find it interesting that McAfee recently downgraded the severity
while Symantec upgraded it :)

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx