OT more viruses

KenCo wrote:


anyone else getting emailed (bogus) updates from Microsoft?
dont even think about using them, there all viruses.

Everybody is. Its "Swen", the newest one on the block.

http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5078696.html

Yeah I am getting one every 2 minutes.

"KenCo" wrote in message
...

anyone else getting emailed (bogus) updates from Microsoft?
dont even think about using them, there all viruses.

Microsoft never email updates....




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that a signicant number of electrons may have been
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Sam Hopkins wrote:

Yeah I am getting one every 2 minutes.



I have spam filters and added 20+ today, that slowed the msgs.
to 4-5 hr 85+ got through so far....




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My email (OE) is clogged with 200+ not as yet downloaded.
I did open one of the SOBs -
got a notice from Norton that they stopped it or something.....
Can't access my email ... I am so angry with myself. computer
is soo slow.

Nedra

"KenCo" wrote in message
...
Sam Hopkins wrote:

Yeah I am getting one every 2 minutes.



I have spam filters and added 20+ today, that slowed the msgs.
to 4-5 hr 85+ got through so far....




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Please Note: No trees or animals were harmed in the
sending of this contaminant free message We do concede
that a signicant number of electrons may have been
inconvenienced

Nedra wrote:
My email (OE) is clogged with 200+ not as yet downloaded.
I did open one of the SOBs -
got a notice from Norton that they stopped it or something.....
Can't access my email ... I am so angry with myself. computer
is soo slow.

Nedra


I haven't gotten any mail all day. Now I think I know why. Anyway, I
also use linux and this is one case where having a minority os is a good
deal

Matt

Nedra wrote:

My email (OE) is clogged with 200+ not as yet downloaded.
I did open one of the SOBs -
got a notice from Norton that they stopped it or something.....
Can't access my email ... I am so angry with myself. computer
is soo slow.

Nedra



if you ran it then your most likely infected
and it targets OE and IE.
thats why I use Netscape


you have 2 choices:
let it download all the msgs then delete them.

call your internet company and have them delete
all msgs from their end.




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sending of this contaminant free message We do concede
that a signicant number of electrons may have been
inconvenienced

Haven't had the problem, probably due to the simple fact of my forging my
email address on all newsgroup postings.

I use Outlook Express, and if anybody is interested this is how to change
your email reply address:
In your mail window go to
Tools: Accounts: then click on 'news' tab
Fill in the boxes w/something that is NOT your email addy.

Some people put a fake one under "email address" and the real one under the
"reply to" address. The theory is that the email address harvesting bots
only harvest the "email address" and not the "reply to" address -- I have no
idea if this is accurate.

Every NG I post on has threads about this virus thing and people being
bombarded -- I haven't gotten one of these particular virus emails and I'm
sure that's due to my email addy being completely useless.

Some people also just simply put their email addy in a signature like:
suchandsuch (at) somewhere (dot) com - again, in theory the bots don't
recognize that. But you have to remove it in that tools option or your
screwed :-)

LeeAnne

"KenCo" wrote in message
...

anyone else getting emailed (bogus) updates from Microsoft?
dont even think about using them, there all viruses.

Microsoft never email updates....




--
http://www.kencofish.com Ken Arnold,
401-781-9642 cell 401-225-0556
Importer/Exporter of Goldfish,Koi,rare Predators
Shipping to legal states/countries only!
Permalon liners, Oase & Supreme Pondmaster pumps


Please Note: No trees or animals were harmed in the
sending of this contaminant free message We do concede
that a signicant number of electrons may have been
inconvenienced

It's not that you email yourself it's that someone gets infected and starts
emailing everyone and their mother. Hope that you're not on someones email
list.

Sam

"MattR" wrote in message
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Nedra wrote:
My email (OE) is clogged with 200+ not as yet downloaded.
I did open one of the SOBs -
got a notice from Norton that they stopped it or something.....
Can't access my email ... I am so angry with myself. computer
is soo slow.

Nedra


I haven't gotten any mail all day. Now I think I know why. Anyway, I
also use linux and this is one case where having a minority os is a good
deal

Matt

I think that anyone caught making and sending out a virus should be shot -
and their mothers and fathes for having them. That would put an end to it.


"KenCo" wrote in message
...

anyone else getting emailed (bogus) updates from Microsoft?
dont even think about using them, there all viruses.

Microsoft never email updates....




--
http://www.kencofish.com Ken Arnold,
401-781-9642 cell 401-225-0556
Importer/Exporter of Goldfish,Koi,rare Predators
Shipping to legal states/countries only!
Permalon liners, Oase & Supreme Pondmaster pumps


Please Note: No trees or animals were harmed in the
sending of this contaminant free message We do concede
that a signicant number of electrons may have been
inconvenienced

My virus software prevents opening the attachments but I am up to more than
300 per day.

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Jim and Sara Humphries, Victoria, BC
"C G" wrote in message
.. .
Sounds like a bunch of people in need of anti-virus software. I have
not received any, but most of the people I correspond with keep current
with their maintenance.

*muffin* wrote:

yup

myself & others I have talked to have had almost 50 today!!

"KenCo" wrote in message
...

anyone else getting emailed (bogus) updates from Microsoft?
dont even think about using them, there all viruses.

Microsoft never email updates....