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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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/ |
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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. -- |
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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. |
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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/ |
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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. |
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:47:57 -0400, Vito wrote:
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. Good idea. Except I would make the proceeds to subsidize homely semi-retired boatwrights. The thing I did not understand is where the money comes from for the spammers. In other words, do people actually bite on spam? A possible answer was provided using the illustration of the mortgage or insurance spam you have probably received. The spammer sends out a million spams a day---a tiny, tiny percentage reply, thus confirming they want more information on insurances or mortgage rates. These hot leads are then sold to insurance or mortgage companies for $20 a piece. Several of these a day and it's a living. Never mind that you had to pollute the 'net with a million unanswered spams. That's someone else's problem. I've been around for a while; long enough to have seen the original Cantor and Spiegel "green card lottery" newsgroup spam. People used to say just ignore them; you can't any more. It takes work to wade through them. Unfortunately, I don't think it will slow down until there are laws in place to send these jerks up the river for 30 years. And why not? Someone that steals a car can go to jail for a significant time. Someone that releases viruses is causing thousands, millions of times more damage. Just because these guys are typically young middle class white boys with bad haircuts should not exempt them from paying a price. |
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Vito wrote:
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. OK...I'll go along with that. But only if I get to hold the money. Or, should I say, have it sent to an off-shore account that I control. You know, somewhere outside of the control of the US IRS in a bank that pays interest, Nigeria sounds good. :-) -- Brandy-and-water spoils two good things. -- Charles Lamb |
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