OT: Being bombarded by e-mail trojans - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Sep 2003

On Sep 19,  9:01, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
...
  On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

 > 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). 
 The "New patch" crap?  Yes, same here. 
My work email account was up to 250 or more by the time I left work
about 20 minutes ago.  Our mail server handled about 3500 today, making
it the largest single virus/trojan, by an order of magnitude.
 Mailscanner (see http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/ if you
don't know about it) is now set to drop them silently.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York