virus attack

"Wayne Harrison" wrote in message
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the damn things are coming in at
the rate of about thirty an hour.

where does one go for a stop to this?

yfitons
wayno

BellSouth told me that it is sent out by someone with the virus, everytime
they log on to the net. If you are in their e-mail addy book you get
inundated with this ****. Got over 100 yesterday and goin' on 200 today. I
have deleted all everyone of my friends from mothers book and all but family
of hers. This should narrow down the culprit, what with only two e-mail
addys left in the book.

Op --Son-of-a-Bitch this sucks!--

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:56:33 GMT, "Wayne Harrison"
wrote:


"Dave LaCourse" wrote

My davplac account is protect by allowing only certain names to pass. The
other 6 accounts on my aol have no mail controls set, yet they are not
receiving any of it. (???)

so, we have yet another example of the fact that you are the luckiest mf
in the entire united states.

shut up and go watch jo water the daisies, you lucky *******!

yfitons
wayno (two email accounts chocablock full of fake microsoft mail and stuff
to make my dick bigger)


well, at least the latter will be useful . . .

Peter

Eastern Spey Clave, October 4th and 5th, 2003
http://www.easternclave.ca

Visit The Streamer Page at http://www.mountaincable.net/~pcharl...ers/index.html

I agree my ISP is run by idiots, two of which are in jail. When I got my
email with them (the real one not the bogus first one which was actually
someone else's) it had spam in it the first time I opened it. Their tech
support said, yah well those spammers are pretty tricky, ok right.

I get more at work, somehow my email got out and I've been getting about
100 generic viagra, enlargment, load, save money on gas, last chance, final
notice etc. spams a day.

Pain in the ass.

Flyfish

"Greg Pavlov" wrote in message
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:17:12 -0500, "Wolfgang"
wrote:


Charlie.......or Joe?

Charlie. It's always going for the lesser of two
evils, isn't it ?

About a horse apiece in my book. One had a wooden head and the other
was......well, a ventriloquist's dummy.

Wolfgang
to whom it has just occurred that the sobriquet "tail gunner joe" might be
seen in a bit of a different light today than it once
was........hm......wonder what j. edgar thought of joe.

"Guyz-N-Flyz" wrote...

I
have deleted all everyone of my friends from mothers book and all but family
of hers. This should narrow down the culprit, what with only two e-mail
addys left in the book.

Er, I hate to say this, Op, but THEY would need to delete YOU from THEIR address
book. But now that you've done all this, doesn't that address book look nice and
neat? ;-)

Op --Son-of-a-Bitch this sucks!--

It does now, eh? . . . I mean ARRrrr.
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

this is not just an unsuspecting person getting infected and accidentally
sending out stuff. Someone is using a random gernerator to change the
subjects, he/they have the ability to foreward them through numerous other
people's email, and most of the return addresses are forged. They have the
knowledge and the means to circumvent most of the spam detectors. my I hate
spam can ony catch abut half of it.


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Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.518 / Virus Database: 316 - Release Date: 9/11/2003

"Tim J." wrote in message
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I Er, I hate to say this, Op, but THEY would need to delete YOU from
THEIR address
book. But now that you've done all this, doesn't that address book look
nice and
neat? ;-)


Yeah, I thought about it after I posted. Hell it took an hour to get this
thru to ROFF, then I downloaded MailWasher (THANKS!) I told mother that she
would have to contact her sisters by phone or letter--imagine that--to get
them to check their system fro the virus. Everyone will remain BLACKLISTED
until certified letters arrive.

Op --Son-of-a-Bitch this sucks!--

It does now, eh? . . . I mean ARRrrr.

Naw not really. I deleted all of my ROFF addys--don't have any other
friends, 'cept my 89 y.o. girlfriend and she can't use the keyboard
anymore--*authoritis* and all that ya know.

Op --Mother was practically in tears when I got home from work, over this
****---Microsoft Virus, not Complete Dental Extraction--

TL,
Tim

I just hope that whoever is sending out all of these messages has the
addresses of my congressmen
"


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Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.518 / Virus Database: 316 - Release Date: 9/11/2003

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:41:09 -0400, "Tim J."
wrote:


"Wolfgang" wrote...

"ezflyfisher" wrote...


I opened this mornings mail..... it took about 20 minutes to
download 100+
junks....

I had 212 new ones waiting for me when I arrived at work about half an
hour ago. Another half dozen have come in since then. Never seen
anything like this before.

It appears to be an info gathering worm - as if you don't get enough spam
already: http://tinyurl.com/nxpu

Anyone who falls for this sort of ploy in this day and age hasn't been around
the block recently. It's akin to the African money transfer schemes in its
sophistication. One thing is for su it is propagating rapidly. geekOur SMTP
traffic which normally accounts for about 1-3% of our used bandwidth is up
around 18%. Since I've made sure no executable programs are allowed past the
firewall, and we don't allow use of web-based email or access to other POP3
servers, we're not having virus problems. Now if I could just remove all the
diskette and CD drives from the workstations. . . /geek

Here's a quote that summarizes this latest wave pretty well:

"Anybody who has posted to a newsgroup with a non-munged address is a prime
target for this worm.

According to SARC, the worm gets the target email addresses by:
Searches .html, .asp, .eml, .dbx, .wab, .mbx files on the hard disk for
email addresses.

If a victim of the worm uses Outlook Express (ugh!) to read newsgroups,
the newsgroup headers are stored in a .dbx file."

/daytripper (doubt it'll help, but it might 'splain a few thing ;-)

"Tim J." wrote in message
et...

"Wayne Harrison" wrote...
calling all geeks! i am being nearly overwhelmed by emails from an
obviously sham microsoft announcement encouraging the recipient to open
an
attachment that no doubt contains a virus. the damn things are coming
in at
the rate of about thirty an hour.

where does one go for a stop to this?

http://www.mailwasher.net/ or some other email preview & filtering
software.
--
TL,
Tim

Tim,

I just tried this....Cool!

It seems to work pretty good, we'll see what happens when a bunch of emails
bounce.....

Mark