E-mail virus question

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My IP tells me he's getting millions of virus e-mails running through his
system daily. No doubt, many people are sending these out, not knowing they
actually have the virus. Apparently too, some have huge e-mail lists that
the virus has hooked into.

My question is, is there some sort of program that would detect that this is
happening (that someone is unknowingly sending out thousands of e-mails)
that we can all install on our PC's that would notify us that we are sending
out hundreds or thousands of e-mails and propagating a virus?

Bryan
 
Isn't that what a virus program does? Tell you if you have a virus which is
sending thousands of emails? Or are you looking for a program that will just
tell you if some other program is using isn't own SMTP engine to send mail?
If a user didn't have a virus program but had the other program, do you
think he would know what was going on?

Gary
 
Isn't that what a virus program does? Tell you if you have a virus which is
sending thousands of emails? Or are you looking for a program that will just
tell you if some other program is using isn't own SMTP engine to send mail?
If a user didn't have a virus program but had the other program, do you
think he would know what was going on?

Gary
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Yep, firewalls to prevent unwanted incoming & outgoing traffic, active
ports to monitor network activity, just to name 2. But you want the same
people that don't have virus programs, or don't use them, have them
setup properly to install another program. If it were that easy the
Anti-Virus companies would be out of business because the internet would
be a safer place. It'll never happen until ISP's start to terminate
accounts until their customers get their systems cleaned up.
 
bam said:
My IP tells me he's getting millions of virus e-mails running through his
system daily. No doubt, many people are sending these out, not knowing they
actually have the virus. Apparently too, some have huge e-mail lists that
the virus has hooked into.

My question is, is there some sort of program that would detect that this is
happening (that someone is unknowingly sending out thousands of e-mails)
that we can all install on our PC's that would notify us that we are sending
out hundreds or thousands of e-mails and propagating a virus?
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ideally a software firewall should be able to alert you to this...

unfortunately we don't live in an ideal world and in the real world
email worms tend to kill the processes that could otherwise detect it...
 
Isn't that what a virus program does?
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Well, no.
Tell you if you have a virus which is
sending thousands of emails? Or are you looking for a program that will just
tell you if some other program is using isn't own SMTP engine to send
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mail?

Yes - exactly.
If a user didn't have a virus program but had the other program, do you
think he would know what was going on?
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No argument there. But it's a second line of defense. Some people don't
update their virus definitions regularly, but having some sort of alarm that
tells you that stuff is being sent out, could reduce the spread.

Bryan
 
Geese_Hunter said:
Yep, firewalls to prevent unwanted incoming & outgoing traffic, active
ports to monitor network activity, just to name 2. But you want the same
people that don't have virus programs, or don't use them, have them
setup properly to install another program. If it were that easy the
Anti-Virus companies would be out of business because the internet would
be a safer place. It'll never happen until ISP's start to terminate
accounts until their customers get their systems cleaned up.
Click to expand...

As I said in a previous post, it would be a second line of defense -
naturally nothing will work 100% of the time.

Bryan
 
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