I'm getting over a 1000 per day and my ISP won't do anything about them
becasue they won't block Microsoft. I'mm on a dialup with catalog.com and
I'm ready to switch to a new ISP but I wish I didn't have to becasue I've
had this email address since 1995. I've got Outlook Express trying to
control and Norton strips the 106kb attachment but my email is now pretty
much like molasses in January and worthless. Any suggestions on a good ISP
with customer service and one that you don't get put on hold for nearly an
hour ever time and then the help is pretty much worhtless.
tnx
hank wd5jfr
"David Stinson" wrote in message
...
The SWEN Worm is possibly the nastiest email worm in history,
so I don't mind getting chewed-out for posting about it.

PLEASE run the Symentec fix at:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/FixSwen.exe

You are perfectly safe to do so, and you will help out your friends.

Thanks,
Dave S.

Henry Kolesnik wrote:
I'm getting over a 1000 per day and my ISP won't do anything about them
becasue they won't block Microsoft.

What do you mean by "block Microsoft"? That doesn't make any sense
because the junk email has nothing to do with Microsoft other that the
clown who started this mess put that in the message.

Any suggestions on a good ISP
with customer service and one that you don't get put on hold for nearly an
hour ever time and then the help is pretty much worhtless.

Oh, now you are really dreaming !!!

:-)

-Bill

well, if you lived in the twin cities, MN, it would be visi.com. they
use postini as the virus and spam trapper. postini, however, has one
trait that stinks... no "delete all" button. with over 12,000 trapped
virii now in their bugpile, there is no freakin' way I'm going to go
deleting them 12 at a time. they kind of need to either learn to live
with full disk farms, or put a "delete all" button up.

Henry Kolesnik wrote:

I'm getting over a 1000 per day and my ISP won't do anything about them
becasue they won't block Microsoft. I'mm on a dialup with catalog.com and
I'm ready to switch to a new ISP but I wish I didn't have to becasue I've
had this email address since 1995. I've got Outlook Express trying to
control and Norton strips the 106kb attachment but my email is now pretty
much like molasses in January and worthless. Any suggestions on a good ISP
with customer service and one that you don't get put on hold for nearly an
hour ever time and then the help is pretty much worhtless.
tnx
hank wd5jfr
"David Stinson" wrote in message
...
The SWEN Worm is possibly the nastiest email worm in history,
so I don't mind getting chewed-out for posting about it.

PLEASE run the Symentec fix at:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/FixSwen.exe

You are perfectly safe to do so, and you will help out your friends.

Thanks,
Dave S.

-- If it's a "new economy," why do they want my obsolete old money?

Henry Kolesnik wrote:

Any suggestions on a good ISP

On a more positive note than my last comment you can check to see which
ISPs in your area provide the ability to establish your own filtering at
the server so that if this ever happens again, and I'm sure it will,
then you can stop it (and other garbage) at the server based on your own
criteria.
Just check the website homepages of the ISPs operating in your locale
and if they have such a feature surely they will tout it. More and more
are going in this direction.
As far as customer service, one of the ISPs I use has a fully automated
management system to add email accounts, change passwords, etc. There's
really no reason to ever have to call them.

-Bill M

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:49:23 -0400, --exray-- wrote:

Henry Kolesnik wrote:

Any suggestions on a good ISP

On a more positive note than my last comment you can check to see which
ISPs in your area provide the ability to establish your own filtering at
the server so that if this ever happens again, and I'm sure it will,
then you can stop it (and other garbage) at the server based on your own
criteria.

I've been using a service like that which covers quite a few states.
They use filtering that has a core functionality and then you can add
your own choices on top of that.

If something slips through, I just forward the message back to the IPS
as an attachment and they add it to the blocked list.

It works pretty well and greatly reduces the load on my own filters.

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

Just check the website homepages of the ISPs operating in your locale
and if they have such a feature surely they will tout it. More and more
are going in this direction.
As far as customer service, one of the ISPs I use has a fully automated
management system to add email accounts, change passwords, etc. There's
really no reason to ever have to call them.

-Bill M

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:49:23 -0400, --exray-- wrote:

Henry Kolesnik wrote:

Any suggestions on a good ISP

On a more positive note than my last comment you can check to see which
ISPs in your area provide the ability to establish your own filtering at
the server so that if this ever happens again, and I'm sure it will,
then you can stop it (and other garbage) at the server based on your own
criteria.

I've been using a service like that which covers quite a few states.
They use filtering that has a core functionality and then you can add
your own choices on top of that.

If something slips through, I just forward the message back to the IPS
as an attachment and they add it to the blocked list.

It works pretty well and greatly reduces the load on my own filters.

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

Just check the website homepages of the ISPs operating in your locale
and if they have such a feature surely they will tout it. More and more
are going in this direction.
As far as customer service, one of the ISPs I use has a fully automated
management system to add email accounts, change passwords, etc. There's
really no reason to ever have to call them.

-Bill M

Henry Kolesnik wrote:
I'm getting over a 1000 per day and my ISP won't do anything about them
becasue they won't block Microsoft.

What do you mean by "block Microsoft"? That doesn't make any sense
because the junk email has nothing to do with Microsoft other that the
clown who started this mess put that in the message.

Any suggestions on a good ISP
with customer service and one that you don't get put on hold for nearly an
hour ever time and then the help is pretty much worhtless.

Oh, now you are really dreaming !!!

:-)

-Bill

well, if you lived in the twin cities, MN, it would be visi.com. they
use postini as the virus and spam trapper. postini, however, has one
trait that stinks... no "delete all" button. with over 12,000 trapped
virii now in their bugpile, there is no freakin' way I'm going to go
deleting them 12 at a time. they kind of need to either learn to live
with full disk farms, or put a "delete all" button up.

Henry Kolesnik wrote:

I'm getting over a 1000 per day and my ISP won't do anything about them
becasue they won't block Microsoft. I'mm on a dialup with catalog.com and
I'm ready to switch to a new ISP but I wish I didn't have to becasue I've
had this email address since 1995. I've got Outlook Express trying to
control and Norton strips the 106kb attachment but my email is now pretty
much like molasses in January and worthless. Any suggestions on a good ISP
with customer service and one that you don't get put on hold for nearly an
hour ever time and then the help is pretty much worhtless.
tnx
hank wd5jfr
"David Stinson" wrote in message
...
The SWEN Worm is possibly the nastiest email worm in history,
so I don't mind getting chewed-out for posting about it.

PLEASE run the Symentec fix at:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/FixSwen.exe

You are perfectly safe to do so, and you will help out your friends.

Thanks,
Dave S.

-- If it's a "new economy," why do they want my obsolete old money?

Henry Kolesnik wrote:

Any suggestions on a good ISP

On a more positive note than my last comment you can check to see which
ISPs in your area provide the ability to establish your own filtering at
the server so that if this ever happens again, and I'm sure it will,
then you can stop it (and other garbage) at the server based on your own
criteria.
Just check the website homepages of the ISPs operating in your locale
and if they have such a feature surely they will tout it. More and more
are going in this direction.
As far as customer service, one of the ISPs I use has a fully automated
management system to add email accounts, change passwords, etc. There's
really no reason to ever have to call them.

-Bill M