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 #82 Saturday, August 23, 2003 4:19 AM
It was impossible to use my e-mail any more; it would take me one day to open them all with my 800 MHZ laptop!
It is the first time in my "computer" life that I am having a problem with a virus who can’t touch me, but really makes my life difficult!
It is very easy to recognize this worm, but it is really impossible to kill those e-mails in the provider’s server, before they come to your e-mail in-box, it could take for ever waiting the Norton or other Antivirus software to kill the viruses.
It is a huge wasting of time!
But now, after reading all the previous posts, I have found the solution!
Mailwasher has saved my "digital" life from this specific damn worm!!!!
it is free and you can get it from this link: http://www.mailwasher.net/download.php
Thanks everybody!
Reply #83 Saturday, August 23, 2003 9:56 AM
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Reply #85 Saturday, August 23, 2003 7:02 PM
FBI agents have subpoenaed an Arizona company for clues to the origins of a fast-spreading computer virus that slowed e-mail systems worldwide this week and threatened to launch an attack that was averted. The virus is programmed to try another attack Sunday, but experts say the attack has already been blocked.
THE VIRUS, the “F” variant of “Sobig,” contained instructions to launch an attack Friday afternoon, but experts were able to identify and block most of the key computers needed as accomplices.
Sobig was programmed to try again Sunday, “but I think it’s really mitigated,” said Chris Rouland, vice president for research and development at Internet Security Systems Inc. “All the network operators are aware they need to block these (Internet addresses) now.”
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Reply #87 Saturday, August 23, 2003 9:11 PM
I have started to format my computer and I am making a new clean install, so do not search for me, I will come sometimes with my laptop and I will reinstall my main machine in same time.
Too many things happend on my pc recently to not do something, I could not uninstall Norton, it would not let me and some other things too
Reply #88 Saturday, August 23, 2003 9:45 PM
I am sorry Alexandrie. I hope you did not lose much data.These dang viri writers ..... I hate them. They are nothing more than terrorists.
Reply #89 Sunday, August 24, 2003 1:27 AM
I have done this too Alexandrie, two days ago I have format and reinstall everything!!!
It took me one day to do all those installations!
But this was the last time, now I have a drive copy, which means that if I see something strange happening in my computer, I can replace the C drive in less than some minutes with a fresh copy of everything I am using, system, drivers, software, everything will be like it was 2 days ago, fresh and fast!
System restore doesn't work all the times and it is not the same.
Norton Ghost is too complicated for me to use it.
Acronis is the best, nice and friendly interface and only 2 step procedure!!! One to back-up everything and one to restore everything! Though it is not free
Interesting? Here is the link of Acronis: http://www.acronis.com/products/trueimage/
Take care everyone!
Reply #90 Sunday, August 24, 2003 6:15 PM
But next time, I am reinstalling with 98/Linux!
Reply #91 Sunday, August 24, 2003 6:56 PM
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Reply #94 Tuesday, August 26, 2003 11:17 AM
It seems to be making a comeback... the volume dropped considerably for me a few days ago but the last two days it increased again. Now I'm getting close to a thousand a day on two accounts.
I've noticed lots of websites that I normally visit are offline and even getting to wincustomize has been spotty. I don't know if it's their servers or my cable provider having trouble.
One of my ISP's web-clients lets me delete everything in one shot but the other will only show 10 items per page. Takes about an hour to get rid of all the viri on both servers.
I noticed the usual flood of spam was abated by the virus but now it's coming back too. This sucks...
Reply #95 Tuesday, August 26, 2003 6:19 PM
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Reply #98 Wednesday, August 27, 2003 10:34 AM
wishing it would just stop, knowing it will only continue and get worse >
Reply #99 Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:41 AM
More than 10.000 e-mails daily is something that has started to make me mad! >
I am stoping them and deleting them to my provider's server, but it is still huge time wasting!
Reply #100 Wednesday, August 27, 2003 12:07 PM
No, I am quite happy with that.
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Reply #81 Saturday, August 23, 2003 3:38 AM
this 1 is for W32.Sobig.F@mm: http://download.com.com/3000-2092-10221650.html
and this 1 is for W32.Blaster.Worm: http://download.com.com/3000-2092-10219756.html
the W32.Sobig.F@mm virus is the emailing everyone.. i hope i could be of a help