This is ridiculous

  • Thread starter Thread starter Chris
  • Start date Start date
Hi Dave. While creating that message rule, once you click on the "add" key
and type in your email address, you will see that the "option" key is no
longer grayed out. Click on that key and you will see 2 choices. Select the
"not" choice.
 
Well, I mean to gloat. I use nothing but OE, I don't use any third part
software for email, and I don't receive any spam at all.
 
Steve Dell said:
I've had the same thing happen to me. I've tried following the instructions
from Symantec for removal but "the hits keep coming."
Click to expand...

That's only for if you're infected, in which case you'd be SENDING them.
Getting them, that's something else entirely.
 
Don't quite understand what you are referring to about SENDING and GETTING.

I'm being bombarded with bogus emails supposedly coming from Microsoft and
other junk. I've run the anti-virus twice and it shows there is nothing
there. I"m modify the registry as instructed and am still getting all the
bogus emails.

Steve
 
If someone's PC is infected by a virus, the user could unknowingly be
SENDING a poison email to everyone in his/her address book every time he/she
uses their email program. On the other hand, if that person has not taken
sufficient steps to protect their system against such attacks, they will be
vulnerable to RECEIVING a poison email every time incoming mail arrives.
 
Chris wrote:

| I have received over 135 bogus emails and virus threats today. I
| started Outlook about fifteen minutes ago and it is still pulling in
| mail (present count is 52 and still going) on this bogus Microsoft
| thing.

I think that it is about time that you revamped your email system.
It is no longer feasable to use (e-mail address removed) unless I want
to get all of this junk. Most of these bots just use a dictionary
approach starting with _a_ and ending with _zzz_. If you are
using a major provider you are going to get this junk. I use a
munged email address from a defunct domain.
I receive nothing, nada.
 
It's all in the way it is set up. I don't get any either. OE/IE
fully patched.

Papa wrote:
| Well, I mean to gloat. I use nothing but OE, I don't use any third
| part software for email, and I don't receive any spam at all.
|
| ||
|| Not meaning to gloat, but I haven't received a single one! I and
|| most of the people I regularly exchange email with use Eudora. OE
|| is too hacker "friendly" and lacks the advanced filtering
|| capabilities of Eudora.
||
|| Larc
 
Use Spamnet...spamnet.com..works by scanning message headers and is
effective...you highlight offending messages and click Block..messages from
that sender get sent to the folder of your choosing...like Deleted! also
uses the collective prior blocks of all users to mark messages as
Spam...your blocks are added to other users block lists

Rich Lanzarone
 
Use Spamnet...spamnet.com..works by scanning message headers and is
effective...you highlight offending messages and click Block..messages from
that sender get sent to the folder of your choosing...like Deleted!
Free download...integrates into Outlook nicely on the toolbar
 
Chris said:
I have received over 135 bogus emails and virus threats today. I started
Outlook about fifteen minutes ago and it is still pulling in mail
(present count is 52 and still going) on this bogus Microsoft thing.
Click to expand...


My brother had the same thing happen. He posted messages to a newsgroup and
did not use an alias. The spam robots are working overtime to gather up
suckers to install the bogus Microsoft patches.
 
Sorry, does not work in Outlook. Which is why most of us use a phony or
discard address to post answers to news groups.

(yes, this is one of those addresses)


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Nicholas <[email protected]> asked:

| Open Outlook Express and from the Toolbar select:
| Help > Contents and Rules, type RULES in the find box,
| click on LIST TOPICS, then click on "Create a rule for
| mail messages".
|
| You need to create a message rule that includes an "action"
| to "delete it from the server".
|
| Creating Message Rules in Outlook Express
| http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tips/rules.htm
|
|
| --
| Nicholas
|
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------
|
| |
|| I have received over 135 bogus emails and virus threats today. I
|| started
|| Outlook about fifteen minutes ago and it is still pulling in mail
|| (present
|| count is 52 and still going) on this bogus Microsoft thing.
 
For Microsoft Office Outlook users;

Go to your webbased mailclient of your ISP. If you have a good provider it
will let you set mailrules here. Set the rule to delete or move to another
folder to prevent it from downloading into your Outlook.

Hope this helps!

--
Roady
www.sparnaaij.net (gave it a remake)
News, FAQ, How To's for Outlook and more...

-----
Open Outlook Express and from the Toolbar select:
Help > Contents and Rules, type RULES in the find box,
click on LIST TOPICS, then click on "Create a rule for
mail messages".

You need to create a message rule that includes an "action"
to "delete it from the server".

Creating Message Rules in Outlook Express
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tips/rules.htm


--
Nicholas

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------


| I have received over 135 bogus emails and virus threats today. I started
| Outlook about fifteen minutes ago and it is still pulling in mail (present
| count is 52 and still going) on this bogus Microsoft thing.
|
|
 
I want the old rule back which is the option to leave it on the server.
After four days it bounces back to the moron that's infected.
I want revenge.
Bernie
 
Bernie said:
I want the old rule back which is the option to leave it on the
server. After four days it bounces back to the moron that's infected.
I want revenge.
Bernie
Click to expand...
There's always an attachment.
 
Bernie said:
I want the old rule back which is the option to leave it on the server.
After four days it bounces back to the moron that's infected.
I want revenge.
Bernie
Click to expand...

That's useless because the sender address is most of the time faked.
If you do so, you're just having your revenge on innocent people.
 
I believe this one is propagating through address books & stored email
addresses on infected HD's. Throw away accounts, such as the one you
advertised, will not prevent the receipt of spam and/or viruses.
Click to expand...

In fact, it is the thorw-away addresses that will never get this one
because, as you say, it is using address books on infected computers and
those will always contain good addresses, with few exceptions.
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.
 
In fact, it is the thorw-away addresses that will never get this one
because, as you say, it is using address books on infected computers and
those will always contain good addresses, with few exceptions.
Click to expand...

Swen will cull email addresses from newsgroups and web pages as well as
address books!

Taken from the following article:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

"Searches .html, .asp, .eml, .dbx, .wab, .mbx files on the hard disk for
email addresses"
 
Chris said:
I have received over 135 bogus emails and virus
threats today. I started Outlook about fifteen
minutes ago and it is still pulling in mail (present
count is 52 and still going) on this bogus
Microsoft thing.
Click to expand...


Note first that Microsoft does not send out these types of messages unless
you very specifically request it. Instead, the vast majority of these
messages are attempts to install virus-type programs on your computer.
Therefore, your best bet is to delete these messages without delay (don't
open them or attempt to install them).

If you want to prevent these messages from downloading (large messages
take time to download), set Outlook to not download messages over a certain
size. Somewhere around 25K is a good size, since this will allow most
messages without attachments to download, but will stop most messages with
attachments. At this point, Outlook will download the message header without
the rest of the message, allowing you to see who the message is from. If you
don't want the message, simply delete it (highlight and hit X button). For
messages you want to download, right-click and select download from server.
When you're finished, hit the "send/receive" button again and Outlook will
delete the messages you don't want off the server and fully download the
messages you want. Read help menu about setting maximum download size (it's
an account option, not a filter).


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/
 
Back
Top