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 #2 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 2:54 PM
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Reply #4 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 3:01 PM
I would use an anti-spam program (there lots out there but I use AntiSpamWare) to screen your emails before downloding. This safes me a lot of time every day.
I think you can tell Norton Antivirus to either fix or delete the virus in emails silently (without any notification) and you should be able to find this feature in the options menue.
Reply #5 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 3:04 PM
I hope that helps you.
Barb
Reply #6 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 3:12 PM
Just tell Norton to "repair and then silently delete if unsuccessful" Alexandrie, I was having the same problem, but not any more.
Reply #8 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 3:44 PM
I'm still sitting deleting mails because of someone else's stupidity. I'm just lucky to have access to my account through web-based mail so I don't have to download all these mails before they get checked.
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Reply #10 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 5:10 PM
| #4 by aufisch - 8/19/2003 3:01:42 PM Ohh 500 virus ridden emails??? That's horrible!! |
Think that's bad? Stardock support is getting one every 3 to 5 seconds. Norton runs in the background and a filter on the email takes care of most of the rest of them. Bogs down the machine though 
Reply #12 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 5:17 PM
It all just bites. I got hit on my work machine with all updates applied, Norton running and behind a firewall. Luckily, it's easy to get rid of. Hit two of us at the office at once causing a spontaneous reboot. Real pain.
Reply #13 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 5:58 PM
A useful little utility I use is eprompter. It will check most web mail and just about any ISP based mail for you. It can be set to only get the headers so you can decide if you want to read the messages or not. You can then delete unwanted mail from your mail server from eprompter. It's easy, convenient, and free.
Reply #14 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 6:11 PM
These are gonna clog up everyone's mail accounts too. You'll have to go to the web client for your email (if you have emails saved after download as a lot of people have to do) and delete them a page at a time from the account space.
My mailbox space is ten Mb and it got filled today after a few hundred viruses plus a few hundred spams because I had received a couple attachments as well.
I echo everyone's feeling... what a pain!
Reply #18 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 8:52 PM
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Reply #19 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 8:57 PM
but my computer won't accept em, seem to have this rascal wrapped
Reply #20 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 4:54 AM
It sucks, it filled up my 30MB POP3 inbox in a matter of hours overnight.
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