"Mr. Tea" wrote:

The virus that is propagating itself by masquerading as a Microsoft Security
Update uses usenet addresses to propogate itself.

I am not an expert on this virus, but I do have personal experience that may
prove useful. I have two accounts, one that I use solely for usenet
postings. I receive many of these security updates on this account. I have
another that I use for personal business and I have received none.
[chop]

Yeah, that's a real pain in ther ass thing too. I'm using Outlook 2000,
and I've set up a couple of rules, one to key off the Subject line and
the other to key off the From field, and I eventually have most all the
apparent senders and subjects covered and my rule deletes them upon
receipt. But it took some work! I have over 60 subjects listed, and
several dozen apparent senders too. I think that virus took about 4
separate lists of words to assemble subject lines in random combination,
but I think I have 'em all covered now.

If only people would stop double chicking on attachments! DUH! And BTW
kids, Microsoft NEVER sends out unsolicited updates, not via email. You
can pull 'em from their website, and if you are running Automatic
Update, you can get 'em that way, but NEVER VIA EMAIL!!! :-(

--
John Kuthe,
1st rule of Govt: protect people from Govt
2nd rule of Govt: protect people from each other
BUT: It must *never* become the job of Govt to protect people from
themselves!