Blocking Certain Emails Containg Worms!!!

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For the last 5 days I have been receiving email (4 at a
time, some times the same 4 over and over). Actually 3
other people I have spoken to also are receiving these.
I have contacted Microsoft and my internet provider.
Neither have offered much help which I guess I can
understand. The emails say and look like Microsoft Updates
or patches, etc. They are not. The all
have "worm.automat.AHB". Norton deactivates it.
Then I have to delete it. I don't want to take the chance
of it even being allowed on my computer even if it's
deactivated. I need to know if it's possible to block
certain emails from my computer.
 
I have been getting the same thing to the tune of approx. 100 emails a day!
Let me know if you find out anything on this.

David
 
Go to your webbased mailclient provided by your ISP. If you have a good ISP
it will let you set mailrules here. Configure a rule that will delete or
move the message to a different folder. This way you prevent Outlook from
even downloading the message and clogging up your bandwith.

Hope this helps!
 
Many people are getting these messages. The only way I have heard of to stop
them is to create a filter rule in outlook. Look at the headers of a few of
the messages. You might find a common phrase or name that you could use in a
rule.
I found that the last line of the headers contained a consistant phrase that
I used in a 'delete completely' rule.
Hugh
 
Roady,
Thanks for answering. I'll try to do that (I'm sorta new
to PCs, but I do know MACs). Hopefully it will work
because it's really becoming a pain. Thankfully hackers
don't like MACs that much.
mdf
 
I have been getting the same thing to the tune of approx.
100 emails a day!
Let me know if you find out anything on this.


I got these from British Expats Forum:

Re: NEW VIRUS WORM AUTOMAT AHB
I updated NAV twice this a.m. and have gotten a dozen or
more of the messages since then, with not a peep from NAV.
I suppose you can tell how many address books you are in
by the number of these you get. It sends out to everyone
in an affected address book. This sort of approach has
been around for so long ( although no nearly so
proliferately), I would think everybody was wise to it. MS
does not send out upgrades, packs, or whatever, by email.
It does, if you are on their list, send out notices that
you should go to their upgrade site.
rjf


NEW VIRUS WORM AUTOMAT AHB
this is a very dangerous virus
propagating as a MS service pack, an undelivered message,
and so on

do not open files ..
NAV finds and eliminates it.
 
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