OT: Email virus

OH yes. But only on one of my Yahoo accounts, not the other, and not my "primary" ISP account. The "bad" e-mail account fills up rapidly, Yahoo shuts down my inbox, and a couple of times a day I go and empty everything out. I have the latest antivirus definitions and Microsoft patches, so that particular e-mail address must have been pulled earlier and is being recycled by infected computers. Or so I've heard.

- Steve R St Louis

I wish it were only 20 a day....I've had, so far, 216 just today alone, and nearly 2,000 of them since last Wed. And my ISP claims they don't have the "legal right" to block these worms. Sheesh!

Hello all....

I have been experiencing a great deal of emails from "Microsoft" as well...on average 200-225 per day!!

I am searching right now for any help and should I find anything I will post it here for all to see.

Have a great day.

Me too, only I'm getting about 50-100 a day. I'm on several newsgroups....so it could be. Someone said it is originating in South America. ?????? I got mailwasher and have been bouncing them back but they just return....Barb

Yeah, me too. But I'm glad my ISP provides a filter from McCaffee called Postini. If it weren't for that filter, I would be getting them all the way thru to my inbox. And I'm not smart enough to make a decision of what's legit and what's not until its too late. Lay that on top of anywhere from 150 to 250 spam mails, and I wouldn't have any time to read or answer ANY email! Hal

newsgroups....so

I've been bombarded for about the last week with 45 - 50 of these messages a day, keeping my mail box full. DO NOT under any circumstances open any of these messages or attachments. Update your virus scanner if you haven't already done so.

Hopefully, the thing is winding down, I only had 20 messages today.

Everyone seems to be getting hit by this thing. I've installed filters in my outlook express that sends them directly to the trash can. It only slows down my dial up so i read my ng while mail downloads. This thing wont go away easily till the government gets hit heavy. or enough people delete it.

Me too, wormautomat.AHB connected to a Microsoft looking email Had to change my email account

Liam

Yep, I'm getting about 40-50 per day! It really sux! Has anyone found a solution for it yet?

Yes. Write a filter that says:

TO: header must contain snipped-for-privacy@y.com

snipped-for-privacy@y.com is your email address

My ISP has SpamAssassin so that I can write it on the server level. I went from hundreds Friday to only about 10 or so "important" ones.

Me too,

But as of day before yesterday I have not received any more.

Randy Hansen SC Glass Tech

The gang on rec.crafts.metalworking has been talking about some program called 'Mailwasher', but I haven't investigated it yet. Apparently, it downloads the headers and checks em before downloading the actual mail.

Hi Bill, I have been using, the freeware virsion, of Mailwasher about a year. It works great. You can set different levels of filtering and it has a "friends list" and a "black list". When the new mail comes in it will identify it as a friend, as chainletters, spam, virus or something already on the blacklist. You can also double click on any e-mail and review where it was sent from. It also has a check box to delete and/or bounce each e-mail. Once you check of the e-mails you click on "process mail" and it will bounce the selected ones then delete them. It then opens your regular e-mail program and forwards the ones you want to keep to it.

I think it is a great program.

Daym>The gang on rec.crafts.metalworking has been talking about some program

ATT now has a free, automated scan system called 'brightmail' that has been catching and deleting viruses aimed at me at the rate of 2 or 3 a day. I also use PC Cillin to scan for viruses but it hasn't caught anything that brightmail has let slip thru. m

thanks Damon, I just downloaded it and it works real sweet. Bart.

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I spoke to soon. I had not received any virus spam's in two days. I have since made only one post to this group and no others. Today I had 47 spam virus emails in my Yahoo account. There may be a correlation with this virus and this group.

Randy Hansen SC Glass Tech

I have had 205 so far today.... :>(

If you hit "reply" to these Microsoft-looking e-mails you'll notice that the reply address is gobbledegook, nothing to do with Microsoft at all. So I mark them as spam and delete them. Then another batch comes in and the whole thing continues.