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Listees, Please don't respond to this message on the list. If you wish to reply, do so directly to me. For the last week I've been getting a LOT of email messages containing the W32/Swen.A@MM internet worm. With Greg's help, I've managed to limit the inconvenience and I've not been infected myself. Since this worm infects Windows PCs and harvests email addresses that it finds there, it is quite possible that there are one or more people on this list whose PCs have this virus and are now sending out infected messages to everyone else. The PCs that seem to be emailing me appear to be online 24/7, so if you just run a few hours a day, you're probably not one of them. I don't want to start a "type 3" thread on this subject, but just out of curiosity, I'd like to ask that you email me personally if you're getting a LOT of these messages. Keep in mind that 10, 20, or even 50 of these messages a day is NOT a lot. Please don't respond to the list. If you've gotten such a message, apparently from Microsoft, that claims to be a security upgrade, and you installed this upgrade, then it is very likely that you are infected. If you received one of these messages and opened it, but said "No" to installing it, you may still be infected if you use Outlook or Outlook Express. MicroSoft NEVER sends out email messages with upgrades. They always require that you come to their web site and download the upgrade directly from them. Note that the email messages contain spoofed headers, so that the real sender can't be identified, so some of you may even have gotten security upgrade messages that appear to be from me, but aren't. If you think you might be infected, or just want more information, go to the Symantec web site and check out their description. Here's the URL to their discussion of the Swen.A virus: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.swen.a@mm.html Symantec has a removal tool for this virus, but it is somewhat difficult to carry out all the steps. You'll have to print out the instructions for YOUR operating system and then follow them carefully. thanks, -- Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org