Virus emails blasting my inbox
Tuesday, August 19, 2003 by Alexandrie | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I have tons of emails with virus I am getting, just today I've got around 500 of them, and the end of the day is not near, it's only 5PM, Norton warns me the virus has been deleted and I have to click finished button everytime, this is a pain in the ....
If someone know how to get rid of them without clicking on "finished" everytime please help me.
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Reply #22 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:35 AM
Verizon DSL here, NIS 2003 Pro with NAV, filtering emails, instant messaging programs, web mail and active script protection enabled, intrusion protection enabled and Mcafee SpamKiller 4 and not one....
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Reply #25 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 8:04 PM
If you use outlook - just set a rule to delete or move messages with these phrases in the subject - there are a few more, but those should cover 80-90% of the ones caused by SoBig.F (which is the bear I hadda deal with today).
Re: Details
Re: Approved
Re: Re: My details
Re: Thank you!
Re: That movie
Re: Wicked screensaver
Re: Your application
Thank you!
Your details
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Reply #30 Thursday, August 21, 2003 2:56 AM
I am wondering, anyone else here from Florida who has been hit with this that is on Verizon?
My brother, mother, aunt and cousin haven't been hit either and I've set their systems up the same as mine excluding the hardware firewall.
So I wonder whats up...
Reply #31 Thursday, August 21, 2003 3:04 AM
China ! m0rphium 
well ah, doesn't everyone only allow chosen people to send them email?
I mean if your working a commercial email account your not able to do it as Dangeruss points out his HD email is swamped, PixTudio works through their regular email I am guessing so it is open. Has to be a spyder that gathered all the emails to start with...
What I would like to know is if any emails are listed by known friends, clients or users or are all of them generic in nature. Mass emalier scripts shouldn't run automatically either because people should have an Active Virus scanner that blocks scripts until the authorize a script to run (only takes a moment and can save your hours if not days, or/including your work)
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Reply #36 Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:02 AM
IPlural >> Read the information linked to from the news article on the main page. The virus spreads by examining a large range of filetypes on an infected machine, extracting e-mail addresses it finds from web pages, address books, text files or whatever. So yes, a spider is partially responsible, but not in the general use of the word. The virus doesn't actually hunt through on-line web pages for addresses.
Reply #37 Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:21 AM
I guess my security setup works...
anyway...
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Reply #39 Thursday, August 21, 2003 12:08 PM
Unfortunately, the account that I am getting slammed on is our support account. Not getting the virus sent to us much, but are getting flooded by "returned" email from email that was spoofing our address. it's a real pain and a drain on our email server.
Where my hubby works, they pulled the plug on outside email. you can use the intranet to talk to company employees, but they will not accept outside mail until all this clears up.
Reply #40 Thursday, August 21, 2003 3:00 PM
I've gotten 765 since yesterday, mostly on two accounts. My comcast account hasn't been hit yet at all... guess it could be worse. Seems like every fifteen minutes I get 20 or 30 more.
I'm surprised how many are from familiar names. I don't want to embarrass anyone so I won't mention any names but this virus has gotten into quite a few friend's machines aparently.
The most surprising was these:
cavuto @ foxnews.com
foxnewslive @ foxnews.com
I have no idea how my email address wound up in Neil Cavuto's address book.
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