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Spam
Does anyone know if anything is being done to stop this
mess? I haven't heard a word on the news about this one. |
Spam in general, or one in particular.
Safe assumtion is "no" for the former, "yes" for the latter. Unfortuneately, spamming is such easy money, 30 new ones pop-up for every one busted. -- Gregg Reported 60,000+ spams and they still keep coming :-( |
One of my accounts has been getting completely inundated with the fake
Microsoft Update and "Undeliverable Message" virus attempts...I'm talking about a CONTINUOUS STREAM of copies of the same thing over and over. Fortunately, it's a junk account. The motherfu**er that is spamming me keeps changing the domain, From line and Subject line so I have to constantly update my filters to keep up with it. SPAMMERS, DIE!!! "Burr" wrote in message ... Does anyone know if anything is being done to stop this mess? I haven't heard a word on the news about this one. |
- Hope they catch the guy..
Dress him up as a harbor seal coat him with Tuna Blood - & feed him to the Great Whites... In article , "DougSlug" writes: Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:27:46 GMT One of my accounts has been getting completely inundated with the fake Microsoft Update and "Undeliverable Message" virus attempts...I'm talking about a CONTINUOUS STREAM of copies of the same thing over and over. Fortunately, it's a junk account. The motherfu**er that is spamming me keeps changing the domain, From line and Subject line so I have to constantly update my filters to keep up with it. SPAMMERS, DIE!!! "Burr" wrote in message ... Does anyone know if anything is being done to stop this mess? I haven't heard a word on the news about this one. |
It's this account that's getting hit and just start on one
of my others. I have 8 accounts. This "pho" account is being hit every minute. "I HOPE" that at sometime it's going to stop. Burr Burr wrote: Does anyone know if anything is being done to stop this mess? I haven't heard a word on the news about this one. |
"Burr" wrote in message ... Does anyone know if anything is being done to stop this mess? I haven't heard a word on the news about this one. This is a big attack on usenet users, but I doubt the news media will pay much attention unless it gets out into the general public. Usenet is a tiny corner of the internet nowadays, and most computer users are completely unaware of it. So the reporters are unlikely to get a first hand sample of the spam attack, the general public doesn't start asking why the hell they have all this spam in their mailboxes and the Internet itself doesn't slow down a noticeable amount. There's been some speculation on the newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email that these worms are designed to be taken over by a spammer who will later send out thousands of spam e-mails from an infected machine. In this particular case, the worm may have been targeted at newsgroups in which there are technically oriented users who trace the spam back to an ISP and report the abuse. Seems plausible, but I'm just repeating someone else's speculation. Frank Dresser |
DougSlug wrote:
One of my accounts has been getting completely inundated with the fake Microsoft Update and "Undeliverable Message" virus attempts...I'm talking about a CONTINUOUS STREAM of copies of the same thing over and over. Fortunately, it's a junk account. The motherfu**er that is spamming me keeps changing the domain, From line and Subject line so I have to constantly update my filters to keep up with it. SPAMMERS, DIE!!! Er, it's probably not "a" person if you're getting that many copies. I for one am getting about 50 per hour myself (and to make things worse, once it gets to about 100 messages unread, my Earthlink mailbox reaches its 10MB limit, and all legitimate attempts to E-mail me get sent back a "Undeliverable - Mailbox Full" response). It's also not a spam - it's a full-blown virus. The "from" addresses are forged, so there's little if any way of knowing who is sending each of the copies you are getting, but I can almost guarantee that it is more than one person. You're more likely to get lots of these if: (a) you send out a lot of E-mail (the more times your address appears somewhere, the more likely it's on an infected machine); (b) you're on a mailing list (I've been hit with virus bombs from a mailing list I'm on in the past - infected machines send the message to the mailing list, which happily sends copies to everybody on it); (c) your address is on a website, especially one that a lot of people happen to save pages onto their own machines. ---------------------------------------------- Don Del Grande, I'm surprised nobody has come up with a virus that pops up a window saying "This never would have happened had you been using (choose one: Linux, a Macintosh)" |
"Burr" wrote in message ... Does anyone know if anything is being done to stop this mess? I haven't heard a word on the news about this one. I prefer Bob Evans Breakfast Links. Much fresher than 5 Months old "ham-in-a-can". |
Quoth "Beloved Leader #4" in
: "Burr" wrote in message ... Does anyone know if anything is being done to stop this mess? I haven't heard a word on the news about this one. I prefer Bob Evans Breakfast Links. Much fresher than 5 Months old "ham-in-a-can". If you can find the newish "smoked flavor" SPAM, give it a try. Sliced thin and fried, it tastes like pretty fair bacon. And it keeps a lot better on the pantry shelf... -- When Clinton Lied Nobody Died. Fire Bush in 2004. |
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