nuisance virus?

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Arjang

hi, my yahoo email gets bombarded by these 'ms patch, or security update,
or...'other junk every day filling my inbox(or header says return failure
notice)--even tho they go into spam box--all are about 154 k, and i don't
want 2 change my email adrs...any one knows what this is and/or how to fix
it, if possible?

thanx.
 
Hi,

don't open these files, Microsoft does not send update attachments.

I used to have the same problem, now I'm running Outlook 2003 and the filter
works fine.

You can also set some e-mail rules.

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Luiz Cláudio C. V. Rocha
São Paulo - Brazil
 
These are, as you describe, a virus, but much more than a nuisance if you
open the attachment.

I had to cancel an e-mail address that I'd used for years in the newsgroups
without any "antispam" munging. You are going to have a difficult time
because these viruses were among the first to pick up e-mail addresses from
saved newsgroup messages on infected machines. You can stop posting your
address in "plain text", but as long as those newsgroup messages are on the
computer of someone who is infected by the virus, you'll continue to get a
flood of those e-mails.

I sent out a notice to everyone in my (non-Outlook, non-OE) address book
about the change of e-mail address and the replacement in a form that a
human recipient could construct but that a spam-bot or virus-bot would be
unlikely to piece together. I put an auto-responder with a similar message
on the old ID for a couple of weeks, but the postmaster was having to deal
with 100MB or more of those messages every day, so we agreed to cancel it.
Now, they are all returned "no such account" and won't bounce back to him if
they used a phony address.

Best of luck with it.

Larry
 
Arjang said:
hi, my yahoo email gets bombarded by these 'ms patch, or security update,
or...'other junk every day filling my inbox(or header says return failure
notice)--even tho they go into spam box--all are about 154 k, and i don't
want 2 change my email adrs...any one knows what this is and/or how to fix
it, if possible?
Click to expand...

The idiots running yahoo email should be filtering these as they are
viruses.

Tony

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