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.

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)"

"Don Del Grande" wrote in message
...

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.

That's true. These are coming from many ISPs.


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,


In this particular case, it seems to be going to usenet posters. I have
more than one e-mail address, but this is the only one getting spammed.

Frank Dresser

"DougSlug" wrote in message
. net...
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.

This has just started happening to one of my accounts. I deleted 725 on
Friday through webmail. I'm about to close this account.

"DougSlug" wrote in
. net:

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!!!

Why don't you learn something about the Internet, and how viruses are
spread, before opening your mouth and showing us all how ignorant you are?

Viruses hijack the user's address book and sends copies of itself to
everybody in it. There is no "motherfu**er" - this is a result of 10,000s
of infected computers.

"donut" wrote in message
...
"DougSlug" wrote in
. net:

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!!!

Why don't you learn something about the Internet, and how viruses are
spread, before opening your mouth and showing us all how ignorant you are?

Viruses hijack the user's address book and sends copies of itself to
everybody in it. There is no "motherfu**er" - this is a result of 10,000s
of infected computers.


I suspect that the originators harvested addresses from various newsgroups
and websites to kick it off. I've gotten far more of these than can be
explained by being in other people's address books.

"Dee D. Flint" wrote:

I suspect that the originators harvested addresses from various newsgroups
and websites to kick it off. I've gotten far more of these than can be
explained by being in other people's address books.

A good reason for not using a real email address on newsgroups.


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