Current plague of virus laden crap- when/how will it end?

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Nic O'Demus

Like many others, I am receiving hundreds of emails per day from sources
already discussed on this ng. Most if not all of those messages carry their
own little bomb. I'm using mailwasher to filter out most of the crap. Msoe
message rules filter out most of what remains and I manually delete the few
stragglers.
This is all taking a fair chunk of my time, and I have other things that I
would like to be doing. Touch wood, I haven't had any infection yet.
Is there anything I can do in order to proactively shorten the period over
which we will all have to suffer this rubbish? I only delete the messages, I
presume bouncing them would just add more traffic.
Please don't tell me to (1) stop using ms products or (2) use Linux. I'm
lumbered with what I have.
I presume that the origin of the messages I receive is an automated process
and, as such, will not die and wither of its own accord.
Or am I wrong, will it just fade away?
Finding and hanging the originators (pref. not by the neck) might be one
solution but the problem would still remain. Also, no doubt, there is
something bigger and better just around the corner.
Perhaps its time to revert to snail mail / smoke signals / semaphore?
Thanks
Nic.
 
I've bought myself McAfee SpamKiller - and set a filter of 'this is the
latest version of security update, the'. So far, this has filtered out all
the copies (apart from the fake 'undelivered' messages).

My suggestion would be to buy a copy of this spamkiller, or, failing that,
set an outlook express message rule to delete all files containing the above
text. I'd done that at the weekend, and it's working like a dream!!!

I'll keep thinking about a catchall for the 'delivery falied' spoofs...

Jon
 
Thanks Jon,

I dont have a problem with avoiding the messages. What I wanted to know is
when/how will it end, and also what can users of the internet like thee and
me do to hasten that end.

Nic.
 
I agree mate... it's anightmare and I'd love to know what we can do!

I've started emailing BBC t try to get them to report it on the new...
widesread coverage saying 'it's a virus, don't install the security patch'.
Usually the TV are good at reporting virii... but not this time!!!

newsonline at bbc dot co dot uk (don't wanna be blamed for the virus hitting
the bbc servers!)

Also, I'm hassling Freeserve - trying to get them to install a server side
block on the virus... so they can delete them without us seeing them!!!

Good luck,

Jon
 
Also, I'm hassling Freeserve - trying to get them to install a server side
block on the virus... so they can delete them without us seeing them!!!

Good luck,

Jon
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Demon have been stopping the garbage since yesterday. I was getting
about 1000 messages a day but it has dropped to about 50 since Demon
started trapping them at the server.

Prior to that I was deleting them myself without downloading but I can
understand that some people would not know how that is done. Even
worse some ISPs don't allow access to the server.
 
Nic O'Demus said:
I presume that the origin of the messages I receive is an automated process
and, as such, will not die and wither of its own accord.
Or am I wrong, will it just fade away?
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It should diminish as more and more people clean their
computers of the worm and more ISPs become able to
filter the messages out. Maybe the latter will help against
the *next* one.
 
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