It looks like it is fairly broad spread. I have been getting up to
100/hour sense Saturday. I have been forced to activate earthlink's
rather heavy handed spam blocker so anyone contacting me be forwarned
that you will receive a return message asking you to type a code
displayed as a graphic so the robots can't see it. Then you can get
through.

Skip Gundlach wrote:
Howdy...

You'll note that my 'mailto' and reply addresses are a uga address. That's
a forwarding from my first account, which people going back into the early
80s have, so I've kept it alive as a destination, and as a means of knowing
when a usenet communication is coming (via the account to which it's
posted). However...

Any of you desiring to communicate with me off-list should do so at (my
name, all one word) @earthlink.net. That's because...

One or more of the newsgroups in which I participate has one or more who
have been infected with the current MS worm, and it's overloading my mailbox
with 150k messages at the rate of a couple hundred an hour.

So, I've blocked the engr.uga address, which will bounce all mail coming to
me through that address...

Yes, I'm protected, and no, it didn't come from me (or it wouldn't be going
to uga, as all my mail goes through either the mindspring or earthlink
servers). I do daily virus definition and other updates, and dump the
infected file automatically, so it never even gets opened in my local
computer - but it's overwhelmed my ISP server, and I'm perpetually over
quota!

We'll return you to your normal programming shortly :{))

L8R

Skip




--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

x-no-archive:yes Glenn Ashmore wrote:

It looks like it is fairly broad spread. I have been getting up to
100/hour sense Saturday. I have been forced to activate earthlink's
rather heavy handed spam blocker so anyone contacting me be forwarned
that you will receive a return message asking you to type a code
displayed as a graphic so the robots can't see it. Then you can get
through.

That doesn't help me because the blasted blocker just fills my mailbox
up with spam and won't empty for 14 days.

How do you get it to work like that?

grandma Rosalie

Rosalie B. wrote:
x-no-archive:yes Glenn Ashmore wrote:


It looks like it is fairly broad spread. I have been getting up to
100/hour sense Saturday. I have been forced to activate earthlink's
rather heavy handed spam blocker so anyone contacting me be forwarned
that you will receive a return message asking you to type a code
displayed as a graphic so the robots can't see it. Then you can get
through.


That doesn't help me because the blasted blocker just fills my mailbox
up with spam and won't empty for 14 days.

How do you get it to work like that?

I check webmain every hour or so and add people I know as I find them.
A real PITA but better than nothing. Hopefully the ISPs will wake up
some day this week and realize what is happening.
--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:02:27 -0400, Glenn Ashmore wrote:

I check webmain every hour or so and add people I know as I find them.
A real PITA but better than nothing. Hopefully the ISPs will wake up
some day this week and realize what is happening.

I don't know if this will be a help to you, but I'm using Mailfilter to
delete unwanted trash before downloading. It's a *nix program, but
reportedly works with Windows, although I can't say how easily. It saved
me. My poor dial-up was barely keeping up with the onslaught.

http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/

I suspect newgroup posters are seeing the worst of it. The worm knows
how to attach to NNTP servers and search for email addresses. I've
learned my lesson, as you can see from my email address above.
--

how does one change the reply e-mail address?
"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
...
It looks like it is fairly broad spread. I have been getting up to
100/hour sense Saturday. I have been forced to activate earthlink's
rather heavy handed spam blocker so anyone contacting me be forwarned
that you will receive a return message asking you to type a code
displayed as a graphic so the robots can't see it. Then you can get
through.

Skip Gundlach wrote:
Howdy...

You'll note that my 'mailto' and reply addresses are a uga address.
That's
a forwarding from my first account, which people going back into the
early
80s have, so I've kept it alive as a destination, and as a means of
knowing
when a usenet communication is coming (via the account to which it's
posted). However...

Any of you desiring to communicate with me off-list should do so at (my
name, all one word) @earthlink.net. That's because...

One or more of the newsgroups in which I participate has one or more who
have been infected with the current MS worm, and it's overloading my
mailbox
with 150k messages at the rate of a couple hundred an hour.

So, I've blocked the engr.uga address, which will bounce all mail coming
to
me through that address...

Yes, I'm protected, and no, it didn't come from me (or it wouldn't be
going
to uga, as all my mail goes through either the mindspring or earthlink
servers). I do daily virus definition and other updates, and dump the
infected file automatically, so it never even gets opened in my local
computer - but it's overwhelmed my ISP server, and I'm perpetually over
quota!

We'll return you to your normal programming shortly :{))

L8R

Skip




--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

I knew it was a virus but my Norton didn't detect it. I copy the file to a
test computer and the Norton there didn't detected it neither.( Corporate
edition version 8 UP TO DATE IN THE DEFINITIONS)
At the beginning I didn't notice what it was doing, until the second reboot
when the norton crashed, for the next days I received the mail errors.
I cleaned the machine following some instructions before doing the Symantec
fix and the fix didn't deleted all the virus files and scanned the computer
again and the norton didn't detected it ( I knew there was a file with the
virus) Used the "Panda antivirus" online and it found the file and deleted
it. Then installed ZoneAlarm and that program renames the virus file before
getting in to my inbox.



thunder wrote:

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:02:27 -0400, Glenn Ashmore wrote:

I check webmain every hour or so and add people I know as I find them.
A real PITA but better than nothing. Hopefully the ISPs will wake up
some day this week and realize what is happening.

I don't know if this will be a help to you, but I'm using Mailfilter to
delete unwanted trash before downloading. It's a *nix program, but
reportedly works with Windows, although I can't say how easily. It saved
me. My poor dial-up was barely keeping up with the onslaught.

http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/

It depends on your newsreader. I use emacs gnus, and have added to my
..gnus.el file:

(defadvice gnus-post-news (before gnus-user-mail-address activate)
"NOSPAM return address"
(setq user-mail-address "))

--

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:53:04 +0000, Marc Auslander wrote:

I suspect newgroup posters are seeing the worst of it. The worm knows
how to attach to NNTP servers and search for email addresses. I've
learned my lesson, as you can see from my email address above.

Me too. Spam was never a real bother, as I could filter it after it was
downloaded, but this, 200-300 per day at 150K per . . . was quite the PITA.

Glenn Ashmore wrote:

..... Hopefully the ISPs will wake up
some day this week and realize what is happening.
--

I advocate a 3¢ tax on every email sent, with 2¢ to the ISP for
collecting it and the rest to improve sailboat anchorages. It wouldn't
cost any of us enough to matter but it'd put the million spam/day
companies out of business fast.