Noah,
The problem with your theory is that you, like me, have a 10MB limit. I've been
getting 100 per day and I would suspect that if we had 50MB available, like
Stig, we would see more.
I'm using the Earthlink Spam Blocker, Netscape 7.X junk filter, and Mc Afee
Online Anti Virus. Even though I am blocking more and more email addresses
every day, new ones keep coming in. Mc Afee only catches a few and those don't
even have the "Swen" virus.
What I am getting are returned emails that I never sent and the MS patches. I
guess there is no way to block the returned emails since they aren't originating
from my computer.
In order to allow "real" email in, I have been cleaning my inbox from the office
through Earthlink Webmail. What a huge waste of time that is.
Good luck,
Dan
noah wrote:
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:49:20 +0200, Stig Arne Bye
wrote:
I have so far received 2,337 e-mail infected with W32.Swen.A@mm (a.k.a.
Worm.Automat.AHB) since 19th of September. No mail has so far been
bounced as I have 50 MB total POP-account quota at my local ISP and
download e-mail and thus empty the POP-account several times each day.
After the infected attachment has been removed by Norton AntiVirus (TM),
the remainder (the mail header) is moved to a spesial file. By using
these headers, I can then make a graphic chart (by using a small program
I have made myself) showing how many infected e-mail that has been
received each day, as you can from the following:
E-mail infected by W32.Swen.A@mm (Worm.Automat.AHB)
================================================ ===
Total count: 2337
YYYY.MM.DD 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550 600 650 700 750 800 850 900 950 1000
---------- ----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
2003.09.19 #########| | | | | | | | | |
2003.09.20 ############################################### | | | | | |
2003.09.21 #######################################| | | | | | |
2003.09.22 ################################## | | | | | | |
2003.09.23 ############################################## | | | | | |
2003.09.24 ######################### | | | | | | | |
2003.09.25 ################# | | | | | | | | |
2003.09.26 ###### | | | | | | | | | |
2003.09.27 #########| | | | | | | | | |
2003.09.28 * ####### | | | | | | | | | |
----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550 600 650 700 750 800 850 900 950 1000
* Not accomplished (count updated as per 28.09.2003 at 13:58).
Stig Arne Bye
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Located just about 70°N 30°E - Almost at the top of the world!
Stig, your graph is interesting. I know that I have received
"thousands" as well, but have not been counting. Hopefully, your
graph indicates a "slowdown".
Greetings to Kirkenes, Norway from Albany, New York, USA.
...carry on.
noah
To email me, please remove the "FISH" from the net.