virus attack

"rw" wrote in message
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Ernie wrote:
"rw" wrote in message
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The only "fix" for me is to go into Earthlink's Webmail and delete the
messages on the server.


rw,
How does that help?

It helps because I don't have to download hundreds of 141KB emails.

Then you might like that Mail Washer program, but I would still doctor my
address.
Ernie

wrote...
It helps because I don't have to download hundreds of 141KB emails.

Don't you have a feature that allows you to preview the
headers instead of downloading them all first?
--
Warren
(use troutbum_mt (at) yahoo to reply via email)

Ernie wrote:
"rw" wrote in message
m...

The only "fix" for me is to go into Earthlink's Webmail and delete the
messages on the server.


rw,
How does that help?

It helps because I don't have to download hundreds of 141KB emails.

rw wrote:
Warren wrote:

wrote...

It helps because I don't have to download hundreds of 141KB emails.



Don't you have a feature that allows you to preview the headers
instead of downloading them all first?


Yeah. That's what Webmail allows me to do: Look at the headers on the
server and then delete the ones I don't want to download.


yup, that's what i've been doing on my two accounts for over 3
hours today. i've been trashing them to the block sender file but
that ain't helping much.

doncha just love earthlink? i can't believe they can't provide
filters for words and/or phrases or at least by file size.

--walt the ****ed

"walt winter" wrote in message
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yup, that's what i've been doing on my two accounts for over 3
hours today. i've been trashing them to the block sender file but
that ain't helping much.

doncha just love earthlink? i can't believe they can't provide
filters for words and/or phrases or at least by file size.

--walt the ****ed

Block sender can't touch this ****. Hell, ya can't even tell it to block or
not download from server. It's not just Earthlinky either. BS (bellsouth)
says the same thing as Earthlinky. Microsoft is the one who should be doin'
somethin' about this, it is their software bein' attacked afterall!

Went fishin' with my brother on Lower, Inner, Upper, Outter Creek today. He
ain't to skilled with a rod, but he did catch the first trout brought to
hand--9" brown.

Op

Warren wrote:
wrote...

It helps because I don't have to download hundreds of 141KB emails.


Don't you have a feature that allows you to preview the
headers instead of downloading them all first?

Yeah. That's what Webmail allows me to do: Look at the headers on the
server and then delete the ones I don't want to download.

Guyz-N-Flyz wrote:

Microsoft is the one who should be doin'
somethin' about this, it is their software bein' attacked afterall!

Amen.

This **** started happening months ago. As I understand it about this
Swen Worm, Microsoft software is so insecure that merely LOOKING at one
of these trojan horses can get you infected. They (MS) should have acted
sooner and more effectively.

Someone asked me today why Microsoft software is so insecure. It's
complicated:

-- Code bloat from inheriting and supporting ancient software (e.g., DOS).

-- A lazy, greedy, commercial tendency to create a "feature rich"
environment, where all Microsoft products can interact "seamlesly" (Hah,
hah!), to the detriment of their competitors' software. These "features"
are often security bugs.

-- Monopoly.

-- And, related to the above bullet, lots of people (including me) hate
Microsoft. (I didn't have anything to do with the Swen Worm.)

-- Add your own reason here.

Hey, RW, I also spent a lot of time with Earthlink tech support.

Swens were coming in at such a rate that, by the time I had gone through all
of the clicks and keystrokes Norton Anti-Virus requires to delete the damn
things, there were more of them needing NAV clicks and keystokes.

I activated my Earthlink Web Mail service. Web Mail at least lets me delete
them before NAV sees them so the number of clicks is greatly reduced.

I've even gone to the trouble of manually entering all of my Outlook Express
address book into Web mail so that I could set Spam Blocker at its highest
power. Now why the heck doesn't Earthlink have a way to import address
books into Web Mail???!

More importantly, why doesn't Spam Blocker automatically pick up 99.9% of
these instead of 0.1%? At this point I can clearly see which ones are virus
laden spam. Why the heck can't they??

Have you noticed how fast these Swen's fill up your 10MB of mail storage?

Thank heavens Swen doesn't have my business e-mail address or I'd be losing
potential new clients left and right if I left for a day or so and didn't
check my mail.

May the pimply, onanistic, teen Geek who spawned Swen spend eternity hanging
by his cojones over a slow fire in Hell!

I
"rw" wrote in message
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Stan Gula wrote:

Actually it's worse than that. The latest report I read is that the
worm
has a list of NNTP servers and it runs through all available newsgroups,
reads all posts within the past few days, and builds a list of email
addresses to send itself to. So, if you post to Usenet at all, with an
unmunged address, some infected computer, somewhere will grab your
address
from a post and add you to the list. It's an automated address grabber
like
the spammers use, only it keep on running. It also apparently sends
information back to several servers - maybe it's collecting addresses
for
future use. I can't imagine how infected people don't notice the
traffic
and overhead of this!

FWIW, I just talked to Earthlink support. They say there's nothing they
can do about it. I suggested blocking all messages that are 141KB or
142KB. That would work, but they can't "censor" mail. Well, they can
damn well give their customers the wherewithall to censor their own mail
by message size.

The only "fix" for me is to go into Earthlink's Webmail and delete the
messages on the server.

Oldfrat wrote:

Have you noticed how fast these Swen's fill up your 10MB of mail storage?

Lately, the only emails I've been getting are from Earthlink, telling me
I've filled my 10MB quota. It's so lonely here. :-)

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Amen.

This **** started happening months ago. As I understand it about this
Swen Worm, Microsoft software is so insecure that merely LOOKING at one
of these trojan horses can get you infected. They (MS) should have acted
sooner and more effectively.

Someone asked me today why Microsoft software is so insecure. It's
complicated:

-- Code bloat from inheriting and supporting ancient software (e.g., DOS).

-- A lazy, greedy, commercial tendency to create a "feature rich"
environment, where all Microsoft products can interact "seamlesly" (Hah,
hah!), to the detriment of their competitors' software. These "features"
are often security bugs.

-- Monopoly.

-- And, related to the above bullet, lots of people (including me) hate
Microsoft. (I didn't have anything to do with the Swen Worm.)

-- Add your own reason here.

Well I dunno. I sure the hell ain't the one having the
problem. g Remember saying how "secure" your crapple was
because nobody bothered screwing with them? Well? A properly
prepared machine won't be touched by this **** and I am safe.
Perhaps it is time that you looked into munging your email,
install an AV program, get a good firewall and just sit back
and relax. For once I am *totally* covered and your ass is on
the grill. **** crapples! bseg

My biggest complaint about this latest virus is that I had to
empty my bulk mail folder once *one* of my AV programs
identified this as a virus. Ain't life a bitch? g
--
Warren
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