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I would appreciate when posting in this forum that I not
receive virus' etc, I am posting my email to get a
response not battle a virus....

Thankyou
 
In said:
I would appreciate when posting in this forum that I not
receive virus' etc, I am posting my email to get a
response not battle a virus....
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You do realize I assume that some malware will just find addresses and
send possibly without the reader's knowledge. Or automatically harvest
the addresses for spammer lists.

We would all I am certain appreciate if this was not the case. But it
is the case, unfortunately.
 
In said:
I would appreciate when posting in this forum that I not
receive virus' etc, I am posting my email to get a
response not battle a virus....
Click to expand...

You do realize I assume that some malware will just find addresses and
send possibly without the reader's knowledge. Or automatically harvest
the addresses for spammer lists.

We would all I am certain appreciate if this was not the case. But it
is the case, unfortunately.
 
I do realize how that works but since I have put the email
up here I have been receiving these messages. I hadn't
received them until this point and had this address for 7
years without a problem. Is there a way to block them in
outlook?
 
I do realize how that works but since I have put the email
up here I have been receiving these messages. I hadn't
received them until this point and had this address for 7
years without a problem. Is there a way to block them in
outlook?
 
In said:
I do realize how that works but since I have put the email
up here I have been receiving these messages. I hadn't
received them until this point and had this address for 7
years without a problem. Is there a way to block them in
outlook?
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OT
You have let the genie (that address) out of the bottle now and the
best course of action is to kill the compromised address and start
over with a new one that you do not post to public places.

There are of course some rules you can use in OL to filter... And
third-party spam filter tools...

An Outlook group might help.
At
http://lists.gpick.com/pages/AntiSpam_Tools.htm
you can find some other A-spam tools. (POPfile and K9 in
particular).
 
In said:
I do realize how that works but since I have put the email
up here I have been receiving these messages. I hadn't
received them until this point and had this address for 7
years without a problem. Is there a way to block them in
outlook?
Click to expand...

OT
You have let the genie (that address) out of the bottle now and the
best course of action is to kill the compromised address and start
over with a new one that you do not post to public places.

There are of course some rules you can use in OL to filter... And
third-party spam filter tools...

An Outlook group might help.
At
http://lists.gpick.com/pages/AntiSpam_Tools.htm
you can find some other A-spam tools. (POPfile and K9 in
particular).
 
That's great except I can't kill my email at work. I only
used this email because I wanted the response to come here
as I need the answer at work. And I do know better than
that but I thougth maybe on this website they would
respect the fact that I needed help not hinderence.
 
That's great except I can't kill my email at work. I only
used this email because I wanted the response to come here
as I need the answer at work. And I do know better than
that but I thougth maybe on this website they would
respect the fact that I needed help not hinderence.
 
That's great except I can't kill my email at work. I only
used this email because I wanted the response to come here
as I need the answer at work. And I do know better than
that but I thougth maybe on this website they would
respect the fact that I needed help not hinderence.
Click to expand...

Hi

You didn't really post to a web site (well, ok, that to), you posted to
usenet (a.k.a. a news group) that is propagated to news servers all over
the world. The Web interface you use to post is only a interface that
releays the post to usenet.

I would think you was hit by the SWEN worm (NEWS backwards),
that collects e-mail addresses from the news group postings:

W32.Swen.A@mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]


Microsoft is actually warning you about using your regular e-mail account in a
unmodified form, e.g. here:

http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx


And in the field where you type in your e-mail address, there is a link that
says "More about email and privacy..." where the following is stated:


<quote>
About e-mail addresses and privacy
People who send unwanted bulk e-mail (spammers) regularly gather e-mail
addresses from discussion groups. It is likely that if you use your actual,
unmodified e-mail address in a discussion group, you will receive unwanted
messages (spam) in your regular e-mail account. To help prevent spam in your
regular e-mail account, you may not want to include your regular e-mail address
when you post a question or reply to a post in a discussion group. Instead you
may want to do one of the following:

Use an anonymous e-mail address By default, when you post a question or
reply, the Don't show it option is selected under Your e-mail address in the
New thread or Reply form. This option uses an anonymous address in your
messages.

Use a modified e-mail address Use a different version of your e-mail address
that others will understand, but that spam tools can't automatically pick up.
For example, if your actual e-mail address is (e-mail address removed), use
someone(removethis)@example.com as your modified e-mail address. In this case,
the spam tools will send mail to an invalid e-mail address, and others will
know to exclude the (removethis) when they send you e-mail. When you post a
question or reply to a discussion group, select the Show it option under Your
e-mail address in the New thread or Reply form, then enter your modified e-mail
address in the Show it box.

Use a secondary e-mail account Set up or use an e-mail account, such as a
Hotmail account, that is separate from your primary account for posting to
discussion groups. When you post a question or reply to a discussion group,
select the Show it option under Your e-mail address in the New thread or Reply
form, then enter your hotmail account in the Show it box.

</quote>
 
That's great except I can't kill my email at work. I only
used this email because I wanted the response to come here
as I need the answer at work. And I do know better than
that but I thougth maybe on this website they would
respect the fact that I needed help not hinderence.
Click to expand...

Hi

You didn't really post to a web site (well, ok, that to), you posted to
usenet (a.k.a. a news group) that is propagated to news servers all over
the world. The Web interface you use to post is only a interface that
releays the post to usenet.

I would think you was hit by the SWEN worm (NEWS backwards),
that collects e-mail addresses from the news group postings:

W32.Swen.A@mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]


Microsoft is actually warning you about using your regular e-mail account in a
unmodified form, e.g. here:

http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx


And in the field where you type in your e-mail address, there is a link that
says "More about email and privacy..." where the following is stated:


<quote>
About e-mail addresses and privacy
People who send unwanted bulk e-mail (spammers) regularly gather e-mail
addresses from discussion groups. It is likely that if you use your actual,
unmodified e-mail address in a discussion group, you will receive unwanted
messages (spam) in your regular e-mail account. To help prevent spam in your
regular e-mail account, you may not want to include your regular e-mail address
when you post a question or reply to a post in a discussion group. Instead you
may want to do one of the following:

Use an anonymous e-mail address By default, when you post a question or
reply, the Don't show it option is selected under Your e-mail address in the
New thread or Reply form. This option uses an anonymous address in your
messages.

Use a modified e-mail address Use a different version of your e-mail address
that others will understand, but that spam tools can't automatically pick up.
For example, if your actual e-mail address is (e-mail address removed), use
someone(removethis)@example.com as your modified e-mail address. In this case,
the spam tools will send mail to an invalid e-mail address, and others will
know to exclude the (removethis) when they send you e-mail. When you post a
question or reply to a discussion group, select the Show it option under Your
e-mail address in the New thread or Reply form, then enter your modified e-mail
address in the Show it box.

Use a secondary e-mail account Set up or use an e-mail account, such as a
Hotmail account, that is separate from your primary account for posting to
discussion groups. When you post a question or reply to a discussion group,
select the Show it option under Your e-mail address in the New thread or Reply
form, then enter your hotmail account in the Show it box.

</quote>
 
"They", the members of these groups will and do respect your privacy.
The email addresses are "harvested" by spambots, software designed to dig
out anything that resembles an email address and then usually sold to the
persons doing the mass mailing or spamming as it be.
 
"They", the members of these groups will and do respect your privacy.
The email addresses are "harvested" by spambots, software designed to dig
out anything that resembles an email address and then usually sold to the
persons doing the mass mailing or spamming as it be.
 
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