Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-30 Thread r . s . robinson
It's still alive an kicking on my accounts - I had one arive with a new subject header of abort annoucement. Stuart Robinson Leeds, United Kingdom On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Marc Shapiro wrote: I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This is my fourth post in 2

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-30 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Marc Shapiro wrote: I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This is my fourth post in 2 days. So far, no spam, including no SWEN. Could we finally be seein the end of this mess? 135 in 12 hours here, and it'll probably jump up now that I've

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-30 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 16:23, Marc Shapiro wrote: I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This is my fourth post in 2 days. So far, no spam, including no SWEN. Could we finally be seein the end of this mess? I was getting 200-300 Swen's a day for over a

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:39:05 -0700 Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting one every 2 or 3 hrs. Down from ~5/hr three days ago. Theory: If you don't post to this list for many days, the infected machines which have your email address in their lists of targets gradually get

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-30 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 01:15:05PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:39:05 -0700 Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting one every 2 or 3 hrs. Down from ~5/hr three days ago. Theory: If you don't post to this list for many days, the infected machines which have

Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This is my fourth post in 2 days. So far, no spam, including no SWEN. Could we finally be seein the end of this mess? -- Marc Shapiro _ Concerned that messages

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-29 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:23:51 -0500, Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This is my fourth post in 2 days. So far, no spam, including no SWEN. Could we finally be seein the end of this

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:23:51PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This is my fourth post in 2 days. So far, no spam, including no SWEN. Could we finally be seein the end of this

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-29 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:23:51PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This is my fourth post in 2 days. So far, no spam, including no SWEN. Could we finally be seein the end of this mess? I'm getting one every 2 or 3 hrs.

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-29 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:39:05PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:23:51PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This is my fourth post in 2 days. So far, no spam, including no SWEN. Could we finally be

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:46:31 -0800 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:23:51PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This is my fourth post in 2 days. So far, no spam, including no SWEN. Could we

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 18:39, Paul E Condon wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:23:51PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This is my fourth post in 2 days. So far, no spam, including no SWEN. Could we finally be seein the end

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:23:51 -0500, Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This is my fourth post in 2 days. So far, no spam, including no SWEN. Could we finally be seein the

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Marc Shapiro wrote: I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This is my fourth post in 2 days. So far, no spam, including no SWEN. Could we finally be seein the end of this mess? Nope. dmiyu:/var/log/exim4# grep malware mainlog | wc -l 90 90 so far today.

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-29 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:47:09PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: It is possible that it has just stopped gathering email addresses and is just propogating around to emails that have been collected in the past. Else the machines have been disinfected or mail servers are

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Ron Jr wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 18:39, Paul E Condon wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:23:51PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This is my fourth post in 2 days. So far, no spam, including no

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:08, Marc Shapiro wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:46:31 -0800 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:23:51PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This is my fourth post in 2 days.