OT- tons o'spam & your favorive AV program?

I've been getting the same thing here at work, starting yesterday afternoon - I get about 1 every 30 seconds - not fun. I have been working on the rules wizard in Outlook to route them to a junk folder, but I'm hoping the onslaught will end sometime soon.

As far as Grisoft goes, I've installed in on about 20 machines and no problems with any of them, except for one. On that one, sometimes after doing a full scan, the machine doesn't want to power down. But other than that, I am well pleased with the protection factor, ease of use, and the cost - free.

WT

Ditto. Same messages, same time frame. Some bot must have vacuumed the list.

same sh*t here... grisoft is an AV, not an anti-spam I use Spamnet from

It is free too and does a great job

I'm still clinging to NS4.7 for my email/newsreader, but it's seems more dated every day. I don't think it has a filter function either, at least I can't find it.

A lot of people I know use it and never have a problem - I on the other hand...

I guess I'll delete the folder it stopped on yesterday and try re-running it. It was an old Gates Belts calculator program I haven't used in a couple years anyway.

I'm getting the same thing - 117 messages this morning and like Wayne, another one every few minutes. I even got one with a list of names that I recognize from this newsgroup. I've had these before but certainly not to this degree.

delete, delete, delete, delete....

Richard

Here's a good explanation of what's going around.

WT

Whit

it looks as You have Your real e-mail adress visible here....I made a look back and noticed You had a fake adress like @home.....people are scanning these groups for adresses, so put in a spamblocker somewhere in the adress or use a fake one...

Krister

Whit skrev i diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet: snipped-for-privacy@ustin.rr.com...

I am at 190 of the same hoax virus.

Getting them even faster now.

I use SpamPal, it's great but these Microsoft hoax viruses are not being caught and I would have to have 100 rules to catch all of them.

I'm there too....161 this morning and another 3 about every 3 min or so.

Al

Krister, Is there a way you can change the email addy on Mailgate????...I asked this once before and never got an answer

TIA Al,

Alan Sorry to say I have no good answer to this....I use Outlook express...always did... and it works fine for me...maybe someone else in this group can give You an answer

Krister

Alan Etzkorn skrev i diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet: snipped-for-privacy@mygate.m ailgate.org...

Yepp ....it's grand ...I made the same mistake once....maybe one year ago....and still suffering from it I'm very very careful about my office adress ...but made the mistake for a couple of days ..and there it was.,..still getting offers about penis enlargements...(although noone made any complaints so far) and mortages...and this really makes me feel frustrated....

Krister

Whit skrev i diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet: snipped-for-privacy@ustin.rr.com...

BINGO!

We need Pinhead to find the little coward who created this worm!!

.. ;^)

"Krister L" wrote in news:bkfcg0$18bhs$ snipped-for-privacy@ID-131218.news.uni-berlin.de:

Including a real address in your USENET postings has been a bad idea for so long now I'm surprised newsreaders don't issue loud warnings when filling in the email address fields during setup. "WARNING! Only insert a valid address here if you are exceptionally lonely and/or bored and would enjoy reading messages from millions of idiots who are equally pathetic!"

Or some such thing.

I imagine even a simple "NOSPAM" isn't good enough anymore. I'm sure harvesters have learned how to remove many of the basic munging phrases. Plus you never know when you're going to piss of some fellow human who decides to sprinkle your adress around himself.

without setting up your own POP prozy server...

1. formatting link
   Thunderbird Mail
   formatting link

both filter out the "junk" automatically for you.

--nick e.

Whit quipped:

the spam is generated by a worm.... read

snipped-for-privacy@mm.html they say you can be infected just by previewing the "Microsoft-like" message...