OT: Being bombarded by e-mail trojans

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_floodgap.com>
Date: Thu Sep 18 18:40:01 2003

> I'm being totally bombarded by those damn trojan horse e-mails purporting
> to be from Microsoft security, each averaging 150K.
>
> Is anyone else experiencing this? I must've received over 150 today so
> far (starting this morning).
>
> Is there any quick filter I can add to sendmail to thwart their delivery?
> This is becoming highly annoying.

I'm getting smashed with them myself. It seems to be variants on W32.Swen.A_at_mm
and cogeners.

Added a quick filter rule to my secretary bot to bounce away mail with
application/x-msdownload attachments.

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