joaquin said:
Please somebody from microsoft help me!
Last week I entered this forum in order to make a request.
I left my company´s mail address and from then every day I
receive like 50 mails from microsoft, freemail, etc...
Can somedy tell how to avoid this?
I'm not from Microsoft, but I can tell you that, unfortunately, there
are computer viruses that scan newsgroup posts as well as the address
books and internet caches of infected computers for e-mail addresses to
send copies of the virus to. The most recent outbreak is of one called
Swen, which sends messages pretending to be from Microsoft and
instructing you to run the attached "security update", which is, of
course, no update at all, but rather the infecting payload of the virus
itself. Those messages you're getting that claim to be from Microsoft
are not from Microsoft at all.
In addition to viruses like these, spammers routinely scan the web and
some scan newsgroups for e-mail addresses to send their garbage to. So
any time you place your real e-mail address on a public web site, or
post it in a newsgroup, you run the risk of getting hit with spam and
(lately) viruses. What most of us "regulars" do is either post using
completely fictitious e-mail addresses, or else insert bogus but
easily-identifiable camouflage text in the e-mail addresses we post
from -- easily identifiable by humans, that is, but not by viruses and
spambots.
So far, this technique has kept my inbox clean of any virus e-mails.
Unfortunately, your address is already out there, so even if you mung it
from her on out, you're probably going to have to wait a while before
the virus-induced e-mail storm dies down.
Good luck.
