XPost: alt.cats 
 From: uknown@nospam.net 
  
 "Arthur L. Rubin"  wrote in message 
 news:3F704CA0.23E9@sprintmail.com... 
 > Noreen Cooper wrote: 
 > > 
 > > Arthur L. Rubin  wrote: 
 > > 
 > > : Provided I can find an E-mail account that can be protected 
 > > : from MS Blaster.... 
 > > 
 > > : -- 
 > > : This account is subject to a persistent MS Blaster attack. 
 > > : Although it's still live at the present time, I don't know how long 
 > > : it will stay live.  Please reply in newsgroup. 
 > > 
 > > So that is what's going on with my email account.  Is this related to 
 the 
 > > Sven worm or not?  My email is also being spammed with Microsoft 
 messages, 
 > > one of which had cc's of many posters' email addresses who have 
 > > participated on this particular thread here on news.groups.  So what do 
 > > you make of that? 
 > 
 > SVEN is a more virulent version of MS Blaster.  And the CC's 
 > do suggest that the infected party is a reader of news.groups, 
 > not necessarily a participant.  SWEN and MS Blaster look through 
 > the entire disk for E-mail addresses. 
  
 A lot of heavy usenet users "munge" their email account.  Most 
 news readers require you enter an email address but it doesn't 
 require that email address be accurate.  Spammers have bots... 
 programs..that go through usenet groups and strip out the email 
 addresses.  If you want to cut down on spam, do not post 
 from a viable account...in fact, do your isp a favor and make sure 
 the xxxx.net part is inaccurate. 
 This also prevents unsolicited back channel emails. 
 This won't help if your address is in the book of an infected 
 computer but it will prevent others from snagging your address 
 and perpetuating the problem. 
 For the record, I haven's seen this problem at all.  Either I am 
 not in the address book of an infected computer or my ISP/and 
 or firewall is doing a good job of blocking. 
  
 AG 
  
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