OT: Being bombarded by e-mail trojans

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Sep 18 21:27:00 2003

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

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

Ok, good (er, bad). I'm glad it's not just me.

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

I wish PINE were so adaptable. I had to filter on the sender name but at
least I'll block 99% of them.

Fuck, when are they going to come out with email2?

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