Something new going around?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

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I've been seeing this for a few weeks. 
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:34:40 -0400
Peter Kahle <pkahle at pobox.com> wrote:

> I've gotten a couple of similar things in the last days. Here's a
> helpful message from Verizon's scanner agent on one of them:
>            From: 
> Microsoft Network
> Security
> Department
> <mcociufjnowgexv_bakqhdib at confidence.msdn.com>
>         Subject: 
> [spam score 4/10
> -pobox]
>            Date: 
> Thu, 18 Sep 2003
> 23:29:24 +0200
> (CEST)
> 
> WARNING!!! (from smtp.vzavenue.net)
> 
> The following message attachments were flagged by the antivirus
> scanner:
> 
> Attachment [2.2] Qg.exe, virus infected: W32/Gibe-F.  Action taken:
> deleted
> 
> I guess I should go search on Gibe-F at the appropriate sites.
> P
> 
> On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 20:33, Duane Morin wrote:
> > For some reason today I've gotten near 100 of those "I didn't really
> > send that spam but got a bounce message" emails, all with senders
> > and titles centered around "microsoft security patch."  I usually
> > get a couple every now and then, but now I'm getting flooded.  Is
> > this something that other folks are experiencing?  Is one of the
> > worms coming back to life?
> > 
> > Duane
> > 
> > 
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