OT: Has the OE-virus spreading maniac -pretending to be Microsoft- finally been caught?

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Folkert Rienstra

I noticed recently that my MyWeb email account isn't
flooded with those 147kB size or so messages anymore.
It usually took only 2-3 days to fill my 50MB mailbox.

Has he finally been caught or have I just dropped off some
list, several months after I changed my reply address?

Or has my provider finally installed a filter for known viruses?
Maybe they finally saw the light.

Anyone noticed the same?
 
Folkert Rienstra said:
I noticed recently that my MyWeb email account isn't
flooded with those 147kB size or so messages anymore.
It usually took only 2-3 days to fill my 50MB mailbox.

Has he finally been caught or have I just dropped off some
list, several months after I changed my reply address?

Or has my provider finally installed a filter for known viruses?
Maybe they finally saw the light.

Anyone noticed the same?
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No, I am working on a new one as we speak ... Please sent me your new email
address.
 
There are several.
Some carriers are filtering the various W32 viruses & similar, but not all.

Increased broadband means fewer infected machines are required to
achieve the same virus flood and resulting fixed-MB mbx denial of service,
particularly for dialup users who can't login regularly enough to clear it.

Worth investigating 3rd party email filtering:
o Self-install on your machine
---- dial-up requires regular automated dial-in to outpace the virus
---- so better for broadband use, which is 24/7 on
o Subscription based account clearing
---- you pay them, they clean your account 24/7 for you
---- good for dial-up

Check your filtering rules - sometimes they can catch email you want.

The virus was effective at filling up fixed-capacity dialup or webmail mbox's,
at it's peak last September I was hit by 190,000/day at 147KB each. The
real fault was the anti-virus s/w - it hit Thu evening as I recall, and Norton
Antivirus Wed evening update didn't have the profile for W32.Sven so it
simply walked onto machines all around the planet & set up a virus storm.

Not all carriers filter the virus, I don't know why - the CPU overhead is
small compared to the capacity/load on mbx clusters. It may be some do
not for reason of "common-carrier" - they don't want to filter since it sets
a precedent which could force them to filter the pornographic stuff etc.

Some recent bugs in OE, so if anyone uses MS-O/OE it is worth doing
a check on Microsoft's site for the (important) bug fixes re Big Holes.
 
Folkert said:
I noticed recently that my MyWeb email account isn't
flooded with those 147kB size or so messages anymore.
It usually took only 2-3 days to fill my 50MB mailbox.

Has he finally been caught or have I just dropped off some
list, several months after I changed my reply address?

Or has my provider finally installed a filter for known viruses?
Maybe they finally saw the light.

Anyone noticed the same?
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I was receiving those as well - although I think they were 143KB (around
2-5 a day) and 157KB )2-5 a week.)

Stopped a week ago or so.


Odie
 
Dorothy Bradbury said:
There are several.
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Of those maniacs, supposedly.
Some carriers are filtering the various W32 viruses & similar, but not all.
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Well, if no one elso sees that it stopped then that is what my IP did, at last.
Have a hard time believing that though as it would be totally contraire to
their earlier actions.
Increased broadband means fewer infected machines are required to
achieve the same virus flood and resulting fixed-MB mbx denial of service,
particularly for dialup users who can't login regularly enough to clear it.

Worth investigating 3rd party email filtering:
Click to expand...
o Self-install on your machine
---- dial-up requires regular automated dial-in to outpace the virus
---- so better for broadband use, which is 24/7 on
Click to expand...

That is what I have.
But even getting only the headers already took an eternity and they
disabled SpamWeasel. I had to use POP3 Scan Mailbox to preview
the box based only on size and then weed out everything over 140kB.
o Subscription based account clearing
---- you pay them, they clean your account 24/7 for you
---- good for dial-up

Check your filtering rules - sometimes they can catch email you want.

The virus was effective at filling up fixed-capacity dialup or webmail mbox's,
at it's peak last September I was hit by 190,000/day at 147KB each. The
real fault was the anti-virus s/w - it hit Thu evening as I recall, and Norton
Antivirus Wed evening update didn't have the profile for W32.Sven so it
simply walked onto machines all around the planet & set up a virus storm.

Not all carriers filter the virus, I don't know why - the CPU overhead is
small compared to the capacity/load on mbx clusters.
Click to expand...

Well, the free ones over here generate their income from telephone clicks
so obviously they fare well with the viruses being around.
My IP even doubled the mailbox size from 25 to 50MB.
 
Odie said:
I was receiving those as well - although I think they were 143KB (around
2-5 a day) and 157KB )2-5 a week.)

Stopped a week ago or so.
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OK, thanks. Already had a hardtime believing that my IP would offer a
free service while at the same time cutting off one of their cash streams.
Earlier they disallowed to pull one's email through another IP's dialup
and then increased the box size so that more viruses/spam would fit.
They also changed something or other that made spamweasel not work
anymore.
 
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