Cecil, the virus/worm messages at my QTH got so bad that I went to my
non read mail list at Comcast and deleted over 65 message related to
Microsoft with attachments and file sizes greater than 100K. I had two
days of being flooded with messages containing viri and McAffee kept
deleting them and I had to reboot to get control. Finally, tonight,
Saturday at 6:45 EST, the backlog is temporarily [I hope] cleared off
and I am using Netscape 7.1 again instead of Comcast.

Expolit-MIME.gen and W32/SWEN@MM really flooded the net this weekend.

Deacon Dave, W1MCE
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Cecil Moore wrote:
Is anyone else being deluged with Virus/Worm email messages?

Cecil Moore wrote in message ...
Is anyone else being deluged with Virus/Worm email messages?

Only about 800 in the last 3 weeks...Sobigf was a real PIA. All the
servers thought I was sending that crap, being the e-mails are forged.
The "server" notices are as bad a spam as the actual spam or virus
itself as far as clogging bandwidth. Not to mention the 100's of
"microsoft" patches I get. My frigging anti-spam filter probably traps
75-80 funky e-mails a day. I have to weed through them often for
"good" e-mails, or I get so many stacked up, it takes an hour to weed
through them all. I have my anti-spam set to industrial strength. It
catches some "good" emails... MK

Cecil Moore wrote:

Is anyone else being deluged with Virus/Worm email messages?
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Last night I downloaded a program called Mailwasher. It is freeware,
and very easy to use. It checks your e-mail while it is still on the
server, and you can delete it from there without having to download
it to your computer. It allows you to check the e-mail addresses
of the originating messages and have them deleted. You can then
just download what you want -- messages from friends. I just went
to Google, typed in Mailwasher, and it took me directly to the
download site. It sure helps here as I have had well over 1500
messages in the past twenty four hours! Only about fifty were wanted.
The problem is that I belong to 8 newsgroups, and that's where a
lot of the email addresses get harvested! This is one of the eight!

I don't think there's much can be done until everyone clears the
virus off their computers. Although I am virus free, it still doesn't
stop the e-mails from coming in!
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The virus is in the original attachments and at the web site the text urges
you to download. If you don't open the attachment, or download the
"security patch", you won't get the virus. However, you will get floods of
this kind of traffic. It's coming from infected computers that have your
email address, and from your email address harvested from newsgroups, and
even from some web sites you've gone to. I think the flooding will continue
for awhile longer.

Some ISPs neutralize the attachment, but the message comes on through with
an empty attachment. Whatever, don't take a chance and open the attachment.

If you haven't done it yet, mung your newsgroup email address so this won't
happen in the future. Something like . That will keep
you from getting flooded in the future.

If you use Norton System Works or Norton Antivirus, bring up their main
configuration screen, click on antivirus options email and choose the
last item: "Repair and silently delete if unsuccessful". The messages end
up pronto in the Deleted Item folder where you can check later for desirable
messages that might have slipped through and then get rid of all the nasties
with one right click on that folder. Saves a lot of aggravation. Keep
incoming email scanning on.

Marty K1FHR


"RB" wrote in message ...
The virus is in the original attachments and at the web site the text
urges
you to download. If you don't open the attachment, or download the
"security patch", you won't get the virus. However, you will get floods
of
this kind of traffic. It's coming from infected computers that have your
email address, and from your email address harvested from newsgroups, and
even from some web sites you've gone to. I think the flooding will
continue
for awhile longer.

Some ISPs neutralize the attachment, but the message comes on through with
an empty attachment. Whatever, don't take a chance and open the
attachment.

If you haven't done it yet, mung your newsgroup email address so this
won't
happen in the future. Something like . That will
keep
you from getting flooded in the future.

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:35:23 -0500, "RB" wrote:

The virus is in the original attachments and at the web site the text urges
you to download. If you don't open the attachment, or download the
"security patch", you won't get the virus. However, you will get floods of
this kind of traffic. It's coming from infected computers that have your

That's why I keep changing my posting address. I use a valid one, but
it changes as soon as the spam starts to build.


email address, and from your email address harvested from newsgroups, and
even from some web sites you've gone to. I think the flooding will continue
for awhile longer.

Some ISPs neutralize the attachment, but the message comes on through with
an empty attachment. Whatever, don't take a chance and open the attachment.

If you haven't done it yet, mung your newsgroup email address so this won't
happen in the future. Something like . That will keep
you from getting flooded in the future.

Now that is one of my pet peeves. I always use a valid address,
although it changes from time to time. Every once in a while I
receive an e-mail off a newsgroup and almost invariably the sender
forgets to make the return valid. Those get treated just like spam.

Just go to one of the e-mail services and get a throwaway address. Use
it till it starts getting spam and viruses. Then cancel it and create
a new one. If you don't want to receive e-mail from the newsgroups
don't use a valid address and state so in your sig. The easiest is to
just make the address "don'treply@email or some such that indicates
you don't want to be bothered with e-mail answers.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

Yep.... in one account I am getting something like 1200-1500 of the alleged
"Microsoft" patch per day, and about 3 weeks ago I got nailed the same way
with the Sobig:f virus. Since the release of these viruses, I now use the
"webmail" mail servers before downloading any email through Outlook Express.

I haven't been affected by the viruses in regards to what they were designed
directly to do, but affected by the time it takes to download email or going
through the webmail service that my ISP offers. I am quite sure that I am
not the only one and I am sure that these bogus emails are depleting free
space on the email servers in general.


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