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    Re: Virus alert again! Archived Message

    Posted by Tony Bickers on October 1, 2003, 8:50 pm, in reply to "Re: Virus alert again!"

    Wish I had read this two days ago !! Had an e-mail from microsoft .com with an attachment which I very stupidly opened and introduced the Sven also known as Swen virus into my computer. This is a worm that uses your computer as a relay for sending spam to the whole world ! I think i have killed it with a anti virus download from avg although Symantec also have free downloads to eliminate it.

    Incidentally , microsoft apparently never send e-mails out so if you get one looking something like this ' ukimmotouy@microsoft.com ' , delete it straight away. I have put in a firewall today and was on the internet for about 15 mins and the firewall intercepted 650 computers trying to access my machine to propagate spam. as mentioned above the other way this worm comes in is as an official microsoft warning with all the microsoft logo's etc so be very careful as to what you open up.

    Tony Bickers

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