| September 19, 2003 Green Apple
has received notice of the new virus W32.Swen.A@mm or Swen for short. Swen is
a mass-mailing worm that has the ability spread itself through email and
file-sharing networks, such as KaZaA and IRC. Swen attempts to kill antivirus
and personal firewall programs running on a computer. The worm can arrive as
an email attachment or through file-sharing networks. The subject, body, and
From: address of the email may vary. Some examples claim to be patches for
Microsoft Internet Explorer or delivery failure notices from qmail. If you
encounter such an email, clicking on the attachment will infect your computer.
If you believe your computer is infected and could use help, please do not
hesitate to give us a call. As always,
Green Apple users are welcome to bring in their machines for virus scans and
virus removals.
Related Links
For more information on Swen, please visit
http://www.greenapple.com/support/security/pc-sentry/swen.htm
For more
information on viruses in general and prevention techniques, please see
http://www.greenapple.com/support/library/virus-faq.htm
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