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> eOver the past several weeks I have been getting e-mails supposedly from
> Microsoft with attachments. Norton catches them saying they contain
> W32Swen@A but they just keep coming to my Verizon e-mail. I delete them but
> would like to report them but am not sure how to do this.
You are getting those messages because some naive and clueless computer user
has gotten their computer infected. The infector is scanning the infected
computer's HDD for anything remotely resembling an email address anywhere on
on that disk. If you have ever put your email address anyplace on the
Internet, or it has been used in some AOLler's nested forwards, in the
"Cc:" line, that email address is very likely to be on somebody's infected
computer. You won't know them, nor they you; but, you both have a common
friend. My mother has received 299 Netsky infected messages since March 11,
2004. Charter Cable leads the list as a source, with 104. Charter is also
the second to last to have an infected customer send a viral email message,
February 12, 2005. Last was BT Internet, February 17, 2005. The second
longest string of viral email messages to this SBC IP address is Swen, with
148 messages. Most of those were directed to me within the first thirty days
of the outbreak, and only were cut off because I killed the email address.
Initially there were another thirty, or so days of rejections on my SMTP
server, but that suddenly dropped off past the retention time of the MSFT
NNTP groups.
SpamCop has recently changed their policy about reporting viral email. You
can check out their web site:
http://www.spamcop.net/
A reporting account is free, but you still have to monitor the parse. That
means that you should verify that the SC parser has picked the proper
targets of the notifies. Failure to do that can result in reporting your own
mail provider; especially if their internal server handoffs are "broken" in
some manner; not compliant with RFC 822, and the like.
The good news is, SC will parse the message, and give you prospective
contacts for complaints. The bad news is, a lot of providers ignore SC
reports in particular, and any kind of reports in general; or appear to. If
SC reporting seems like too much trouble, then the only other option that
you have is to delete the email.
--
Norman
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