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

Since yesterday I've received over 200 spams, mostly MS Critical
Updates, Critical Internet Updates, etc, all BS, worms, virii, or
cleaned up by my ISP.

I've never had to deal with this carp before, I'm wondering will the
flood of BS ever stop or should I set up a new email addy?

Also what's your preferred AV program?

I tried Grisoft but the computer locked up as it was scanning the HD. It
made it thru 27550 files and 6.7Gb (about half) before everything
stopped. Dead mouse, dead keyboard, *clock stopped!*, had to use the
power button on the case to turn the machine off- bad huh?

XP Pro, Athlon 1800xp, 1Gb ram, GeForce Ti4400, 80Gb Western Digital HD

Thanks
Whit

 

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 http://www.cloudmark.com/. 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...<shrug>

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.
http://woodyswatch.com/windows/archtemplate.asp?6-19

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

 

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.

 

Thanks Krister. Actually @ustin is fake too, but I did slip a few times this
week and left the correct one in there, working from home with a bum knee this
week. Thing is, I have to change it back to the real one to check my inbox,
then I'll forget to change it back before I post here. Ain't it grand! /

 

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:
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

 

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. http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
2. Thunderbird Mail (www.mozilla.org)

both filter out the "junk" automatically for you.

--nick e.

Whit quipped:

 

the spam is generated by a worm....
read
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/
they say you can be infected just by previewing the "Microsoft-like"
message...

 

the spam is generated by a worm....

It may in fact be but I have run the swen patch and it
found nothing on my machine. Still, my Yahoo e-mail
account can fill up in 15 minutes. Don't think it's as
simple a deal as you make it out to be. I wish it was,
though.

jon

 

I meant that your RECIEVE the spam from infected people.

So how do you see someone like Yahoo resolving this shit so peoples
6 meg mail boxs are not jammed to the hilt in 10 minutes ? I'm surprised
the bandwith this spam takes up has not brought Yahoo to it's knees

jon

 

You might try increasing setting spam filtering with ISP if available.

Helped here. Cut to about 20% of before.

 

You might try increasing setting spam filtering with ISP if available.

Helped here. Cut to about 20% of before.