Sick of email Virus

Bev wrote:
I notice that other ngs. are complaining about the latest virus. I
am still deleting hundreds of messages! Here is a site given in
another ng explaining about it.


http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/viru...SWEN.A&VSect=T

Section: Propagation via Newsgroup

Bev

I just seen this virus posted to alt.binaries.pictures.animals, and I'm
still being sent about 70 copies a day, all deleted from the server thanks
to Email Remover which Learned about from this NG.
--
Adrian
"The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him."

Yowie wrote:
You can't set Yahoo to delete messages over 100kb, but you can set OE
(and other mail clients) to do so. I use OE to download my messages
from Yahoo, I don't read them off Yahoo's web page. As a person with
a relatively slow dial-up, I do reply to alot of mail and news off-
line and use the dial-up to a daily "post office run" where I log on,
upload the outgoing mail, download the incoming mail, and then log
off again. It stops my phone line being tied up for too long and
keeps the charges for minutes of on-line time down to a minimum.

If you want to know how to configure Outlook Express to download your
Yahoo mail, just holler and I'll run you through it.

Yowie

I would find that useful as well, could you post it?
--
Adrian
A House Is Not A Home, Without A Cat.

"Yowie" wrote in message
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"MaryL" wrote in message
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"Yowie" wrote in message
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For the moment, I've set OE not to download and to delete off the
server
any
message from my Yahoo server thats over 100kb big,

Yowie


That's a great idea. How do you set Yahoo to delete any message over
100kb?
I haven't been able to find that option. I have checked preferences and
various other settings, but can't find anything relating to maximum
size.

You can't set Yahoo to delete messages over 100kb, but you can set OE (and
other mail clients) to do so. I use OE to download my messages from Yahoo,
I
don't read them off Yahoo's web page. As a person with a relatively slow
dial-up, I do reply to alot of mail and news off-line and use the dial-up
to
a daily "post office run" where I log on, upload the outgoing mail,
download the incoming mail, and then log off again. It stops my phone line
being tied up for too long and keeps the charges for minutes of on-line
time
down to a minimum.

If you want to know how to configure Outlook Express to download your
Yahoo
mail, just holler and I'll run you through it.

Yowie


Yes, I would very much appreciate the information, either posted here or by
private email.

Thanks!

MaryL
(take out the litter to reply)

Seanette Blaylock wrote:

itty (Sherry ) had some very interesting things to
say about Sick of email Virus:


Mine has slowed down also -- I'm getting 20 or fewer now a day and the other
interesting aspect of this is that I'm not having to delete the usual
Brazilian spam I get stuck with -- maybe the virus is clogging the spammers,
too.

I noticed the same thing. I'm only getting about 4 a day now, but NO offers to
buy Viagra online, no Nigerian money-laundering offers, nobody wants to
refinance my house. No spam at all. That's really odd.


I'm still getting spam.


Me too, but the MS-virii go to my yahoo addy and the spam to my hotmail
addy... one addy for all occasions... :/

--
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Christine in Vantaa, Finland (Europe)
Email: christal63(at)yahoo(dot)com
Photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:24:19 +1200, Bev wrote:

I notice that other ngs. are complaining about the latest virus. I am
still deleting hundreds of messages! Here is a site given in another
ng explaining about it.

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/viru...SWEN.A&VSect=T

Section: Propagation via Newsgroup

Bev
--
God may have created man before woman but there is always a rough draft
before the masterpiece.


I'm sick of this, too. 116 today :-( It doesn't seem to be slowing
down for me.

I tried contacting my ISP about this, and they were no help. The one
helpful thing they did was send me to mail2web.com, and I was very
happy to see I could delete mail from the server without downloading
it. The very next day, that site had changed from free,
no-registration, no-cookies, to a register and use cookies site (which
I don't do). :-(

I'm in a bind. I can't use Earthlink's stuff, because I have Netscape
4.72. Upgrading would be a huge PITA, because I'm on a slow dial-up.
At this point, I'm afraid if I upgraded to Netscape 7.1, it wouldn't
even work, because I am still using Windows 95. I tried downloading
Mailwasher, and got a missing DLL message. I even went out and got
Norton Anti-Virus 2004 -- before noticing it will not work with Win95,
and you have to have recent versions of just about everything for it
to work.

When will these people realize that not all of us have the kind of
money to go out and upgrade whole systems yearly??? Besides, I like
Win95 and Netscape 4.72; they are relatively stable. How dare they
force me to upgrade when I'm happy with what I have???

So here I am stuck, with a 2.1 gig hard drive that keeps getting
filled up, wasting hours downloading these damn things. I can't
change my e-mail, because I use it professionally, too. I am at a
loss, frustrated, and ready to scream.

Sorry for venting.

Ginger-lyn
who has had a migraine since last Thursday, and has the mediation
hearing tomorrow :-(

Yowie wrote:
"Bev" wrote in message
...
I notice that other ngs. are complaining about the latest virus. I
am still deleting hundreds of messages! Here is a site given in
another
ng explaining about it.



http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/viru...e=WORM_SWEN.A&
VSect=T

Section: Propagation via Newsgroup

For the moment, I've set OE not to download and to delete off the
server any message from my Yahoo server thats over 100kb big,

PLEASE tell me how you did this!!!

Kristy

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:46:42 -0700, Ginger-lyn Summer wrote
(in message ):

Netscape 7.1 needs Windows 98 or higher

I would suggest two things. First is AVG Antivirus this is a very good
free antivirus. Its probably as good or better than Norton. It has a
pay and free version for home use.

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl7.php

Second, build a filter and block the messages. You can do this two ways.
Every time a different message shows up start a new rule for that
message. Most of them are repeats. The second way is create a rule and
block anything over 120k. It will block innocent messages as well so its
not as elegant. But if you don't normally get large e-mails its probably
worth it. If you do get a lot of them the most efficient way to delete
them is to sort your mail by size if you can or sort for attachements
first.

I would not bounce them if you already have downloaded them. Just
generates more traffic on the server and its probably a false address so
your just propagating the virus.

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:24:19 +1200, Bev wrote:

I notice that other ngs. are complaining about the latest virus. I am
still deleting hundreds of messages! Here is a site given in another
ng explaining about it.

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/viru...me=WORM_SWEN.A
&VSect=T

Section: Propagation via Newsgroup

Bev
--
God may have created man before woman but there is always a rough draft
before the masterpiece.


I'm sick of this, too. 116 today :-( It doesn't seem to be slowing
down for me.

I tried contacting my ISP about this, and they were no help. The one
helpful thing they did was send me to mail2web.com, and I was very
happy to see I could delete mail from the server without downloading
it. The very next day, that site had changed from free,
no-registration, no-cookies, to a register and use cookies site (which
I don't do). :-(

I'm in a bind. I can't use Earthlink's stuff, because I have Netscape
4.72. Upgrading would be a huge PITA, because I'm on a slow dial-up.
At this point, I'm afraid if I upgraded to Netscape 7.1, it wouldn't
even work, because I am still using Windows 95. I tried downloading
Mailwasher, and got a missing DLL message. I even went out and got
Norton Anti-Virus 2004 -- before noticing it will not work with Win95,
and you have to have recent versions of just about everything for it
to work.

When will these people realize that not all of us have the kind of
money to go out and upgrade whole systems yearly??? Besides, I like
Win95 and Netscape 4.72; they are relatively stable. How dare they
force me to upgrade when I'm happy with what I have???

So here I am stuck, with a 2.1 gig hard drive that keeps getting
filled up, wasting hours downloading these damn things. I can't
change my e-mail, because I use it professionally, too. I am at a
loss, frustrated, and ready to scream.

Sorry for venting.

Ginger-lyn
who has had a migraine since last Thursday, and has the mediation
hearing tomorrow :-(

One of the mail list I'm on suggested a program called mailwasher. It
connects to your server and let's you preview all your e-mail before you
download it. One of the best features is it let's you bounce back e-mails.
I've been using it a couple of weeks and the amount of spam has really
decreased. Here's the URL:

http://www.mailwasher.net/

--
-Kim

owned by Egbert, Niobe, Sekhar and Rocket

one cat just leads to another...

http://photos.yahoo.com/sir_eg_of_bert
"Ginger-lyn Summer" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:24:19 +1200, Bev wrote:

I notice that other ngs. are complaining about the latest virus. I am
still deleting hundreds of messages! Here is a site given in another
ng explaining about it.


http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/viru...me=WORM_SWEN.A
&VSect=T

Section: Propagation via Newsgroup

Bev
--
God may have created man before woman but there is always a rough draft
before the masterpiece.


I'm sick of this, too. 116 today :-( It doesn't seem to be slowing
down for me.

I tried contacting my ISP about this, and they were no help. The one
helpful thing they did was send me to mail2web.com, and I was very
happy to see I could delete mail from the server without downloading
it. The very next day, that site had changed from free,
no-registration, no-cookies, to a register and use cookies site (which
I don't do). :-(

I'm in a bind. I can't use Earthlink's stuff, because I have Netscape
4.72. Upgrading would be a huge PITA, because I'm on a slow dial-up.
At this point, I'm afraid if I upgraded to Netscape 7.1, it wouldn't
even work, because I am still using Windows 95. I tried downloading
Mailwasher, and got a missing DLL message. I even went out and got
Norton Anti-Virus 2004 -- before noticing it will not work with Win95,
and you have to have recent versions of just about everything for it
to work.

When will these people realize that not all of us have the kind of
money to go out and upgrade whole systems yearly??? Besides, I like
Win95 and Netscape 4.72; they are relatively stable. How dare they
force me to upgrade when I'm happy with what I have???

So here I am stuck, with a 2.1 gig hard drive that keeps getting
filled up, wasting hours downloading these damn things. I can't
change my e-mail, because I use it professionally, too. I am at a
loss, frustrated, and ready to scream.

Sorry for venting.

Ginger-lyn
who has had a migraine since last Thursday, and has the mediation
hearing tomorrow :-(

"Sherry " wrote in message
...
Mine has slowed down also -- I'm getting 20 or fewer now a day and the
other
interesting aspect of this is that I'm not having to delete the usual
Brazilian spam I get stuck with -- maybe the virus is clogging the
spammers,
too.
Christine


I noticed the same thing. I'm only getting about 4 a day now, but NO
offers to
buy Viagra online, no Nigerian money-laundering offers, nobody wants to
refinance my house. No spam at all. That's really odd.

Sherry

makes you wonder what they're plotting...
Brenda

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:49:42 GMT, John Biltz
wrote:

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:46:42 -0700, Ginger-lyn Summer wrote
(in message ):

Netscape 7.1 needs Windows 98 or higher

I would suggest two things. First is AVG Antivirus this is a very good
free antivirus. Its probably as good or better than Norton. It has a
pay and free version for home use.

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl7.php

Second, build a filter and block the messages. You can do this two ways.
Every time a different message shows up start a new rule for that
message. Most of them are repeats. The second way is create a rule and
block anything over 120k. It will block innocent messages as well so its
not as elegant. But if you don't normally get large e-mails its probably
worth it. If you do get a lot of them the most efficient way to delete
them is to sort your mail by size if you can or sort for attachements
first.

I would not bounce them if you already have downloaded them. Just
generates more traffic on the server and its probably a false address so
your just propagating the virus.

Thanks, John! AVG is downloaded and installed -- hope it works!

I have filters set up, and have added a bunch of new ones.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to block the messages; just delete them.
So I still have to download them. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? I
have Netscape 4.72. There is a button relating to the server, but it
appears to be dead, so I may have something corrupt in my copy of
Netscape.

Back to the drawing board . . . .

Ginger-lyn