blocking senders, but...

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stasha

Hi,
I keep getting bombarded with emails that have attachments with viruses.
I'm running avast!4, and lately, I've been putting all the senders on my
block list. That's good, because it deletes all the blocked sender emails.
The thing is, the part that annoys me the most about all this is the time it
takes my slow pc to examine the attachments -- and despite who I put on my
block sender list, avast looks at the attachment first, then at the sender
of the email. Is there any way that I can set avast up so it looks at the
sender FIRST and have it delete the blocked senders (which takes less time)
then look at the attachments to see if they are infected?

stacy
 
I keep getting bombarded with emails that have attachments with viruses.
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If you're using your real address, to post to usenet, you will be getting
a lot more, of the swen virus emails. Take a look at
http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html and if you're interested,
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]
I'm running avast!4, and lately, I've been putting all the senders on my
block list. That's good, because it deletes all the blocked sender emails.
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Only if you block everyone you know, and everyone they know!

Most email worms forge the from address. For each address you're getting
the email from, there is someone with an infected computer, that has both
your address, and the forged from address, on their computer.

I can't help with getting lookout to skip the virus scans, for mail that
will be rejected anyway. You may have better luck setting it to filter
based on message size, instead of forged from addresses.

The only real way to reduce the volume of email worms, is to get the
person with the infected computer, to remove the worm. The only
way to contact the real sender, is figure out which ip address it was
sent from, and forward the complete headers, to the abuse desk, at
their service provider.

To figure out the sending ip address, take a look at
http://pobox.com/headers.html

Regards, Dave Hodgins.
 
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