Yes, that's true but what's different is the "bot". Software designed to crawl through
UseNet News Groups and capture email addresses to sell as lists for spammers. In addition
the Swen Internet worm has its own engine to post to and read from UseNet News Groups. By
posting executable files posing (masquerading) as Microsoft updates (patches) the Swen
Internet worm utilizes Social Engineering to in effect con users into executing supposed
patches from Microsoft to infect the readers platform. Infected platforms will then scan
UseNet News Groups and search them for email addreses. Based upon addresses captured from
UseNet it will then send email via its own email engine to unsuspecting recipients. What
both (bots and NNTP worms) don't do is scan web sites. Simply because UseNet News Groups
are fixed but web sites vary.

Dave





wrote in message ...
| On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:45:34 GMT, "David H. Lipman"
| wrote:
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| You shouldn't post your own email address, unmunged, to UseNet because you leave yourself
| open to spammers and worse, the Swen internet worm and others.
|
| It is even WORSE to post another's email address, unmunged, without their permission.
|
| Please do NOT do this in the future.
|
| Reasonable advice but a majority of byline newspaper articles contain
| the writer's email address as the subject article did..
|
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| Always be ready to attend to the needs and wants of the wanty and
| needy.
|
| Dave
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