OT - Mail Virus

"Hey Bob, I am going to give that a shot too. I am getting about 50 evrey
time I open my email.What a pain, Glad I have Nortons running.

Jeff

--
COOL LURES
The Lures that put FISH on ICE!
www.coollures.com

Only it makes it twice as bad because the message with an attachment is
undeliverable so it hangs your forwarding server up until they eventually
time out. Usually 5 days later.

I just have my virus scaneer deleting the attachments, sure I do a little
pruning but they all go to the same box so a
click --- shift+click on the last message and the delete key makes quick
work of it.
---
Chuck Coger
http://www.fishin-pro.com

"RichZ" wrote in message
...
Bob wrote:
I just set that
address to forward all incoming e-mail to a nonexistant e-mail and send
an
autoreply explaining that e-mails to that address will never be
deliverd.


The autoreply just further adds to the traffic clog of useless email being
generated by these latest rounds of email worms.

RichZ©
www.richz.com/fishing

Why in the world go through all those gyrations? Why not SPAM proof your
"reply to" and be done with it? But that would be too easy, and not near as
much fun.

--
Early to Bed, Early to Rise,
Fish all Day, Make up Lies.

Shawn

"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
...
I have a different address ) I use as my reply to
e-mail address for my usenet posts. In the last day or two I have
received
close to a thousnad copies of that darn e-mail virus that has been going
around. No big deal, except it clogged up my mail server. I just set
that
address to forward all incoming e-mail to a nonexistant e-mail and send an
autoreply explaining that e-mails to that address will never be deliverd.

Wow! all of a sudden its very quiet in my mail box.


--
Bob La Londe
Yuma, Az
http://www.YumaBassMan.com

Because if you decide to go fishing in Yuma sometime, and decide to drop me
an e-mail asking if I am available that weekend from a usenet post you will
get the reply with the spam resistant real e-mail address I actually use.


--
Bob La Londe
Yuma, Az
http://www.YumaBassMan.com

"Shawn" wrote in message
...
Why in the world go through all those gyrations? Why not SPAM proof your
"reply to" and be done with it? But that would be too easy, and not near
as
much fun.

--
Early to Bed, Early to Rise,
Fish all Day, Make up Lies.

Shawn

"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
...
I have a different address ) I use as my reply
to
e-mail address for my usenet posts. In the last day or two I have
received
close to a thousnad copies of that darn e-mail virus that has been going
around. No big deal, except it clogged up my mail server. I just set
that
address to forward all incoming e-mail to a nonexistant e-mail and send
an
autoreply explaining that e-mails to that address will never be
deliverd.

Wow! all of a sudden its very quiet in my mail box.


--
Bob La Londe
Yuma, Az
http://www.YumaBassMan.com

How Do I stop it from getting so many e-mails? 110 today, 200 more this
afternoon
"Shawn" wrote in message
...
Why in the world go through all those gyrations? Why not SPAM proof your
"reply to" and be done with it? But that would be too easy, and not near
as
much fun.

--
Early to Bed, Early to Rise,
Fish all Day, Make up Lies.

Shawn

"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
...
I have a different address ) I use as my reply
to
e-mail address for my usenet posts. In the last day or two I have
received
close to a thousnad copies of that darn e-mail virus that has been going
around. No big deal, except it clogged up my mail server. I just set
that
address to forward all incoming e-mail to a nonexistant e-mail and send
an
autoreply explaining that e-mails to that address will never be
deliverd.

Wow! all of a sudden its very quiet in my mail box.


--
Bob La Londe
Yuma, Az
http://www.YumaBassMan.com

I don't know how to get them to stop but I know that it is on my ISP side
because I don't have the virus on my machine and it appears that my address
has been sending out emails. I know a few other people on this POS ISP that
is having this problem, It is the only choice in the area for ADSL. shoot
probly the only one in the country.
I know that allot of state side servers will not accept email from this ISP
just like AOL suck lock out my webhost company the last round for no reason,
except that they said is wasn't secure enough, cough.
--
Carl Walters
Montichiari,Italy
www.countrymods.com


"alwaysfishking" alwaysfishking@ nospam.epix.net wrote in message
...
How Do I stop it from getting so many e-mails? 110 today, 200 more this
afternoon
"Shawn" wrote in message
...
Why in the world go through all those gyrations? Why not SPAM proof your
"reply to" and be done with it? But that would be too easy, and not near
as
much fun.

--
Early to Bed, Early to Rise,
Fish all Day, Make up Lies.

Shawn

"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
...
I have a different address ) I use as my
reply
to
e-mail address for my usenet posts. In the last day or two I have
received
close to a thousnad copies of that darn e-mail virus that has been
going
around. No big deal, except it clogged up my mail server. I just set
that
address to forward all incoming e-mail to a nonexistant e-mail and
send
an
autoreply explaining that e-mails to that address will never be
deliverd.

Wow! all of a sudden its very quiet in my mail box.


--
Bob La Londe
Yuma, Az
http://www.YumaBassMan.com

How Do I stop it from getting so many e-mails? 110 today, 200 more this
afternoon

As much as I hate AOL, I got only 12 emails through the address I use here
yesterday. I think they are blocking it some way. On the other email that I use
on my site I received 1361 yesterday between 9 AM and 10 PM. 1355 were markes
SPAM by About but I still have to delete them - they give us the option just in
case there is a mistake. For example, for a time Rob's great stories were
marked as spam.
Ronnie

http://fishing.about.com

I don't have the virus on my machine and it appears that my address
has been sending out emails.

I was getting spam from my fishing.guide email and checked it out. As Fritz
showed me, anyone can use your email address to send out spam. Someone was
doing that for a time, had nothing to do with me, my computer, my ISP or
anything else I was doing.
Ronnie

http://fishing.about.com

Bubba wrote:
and it appears that my address
has been sending out emails

Nothing to do with your ISP. The most recent worms search an infected
machine for email addresses. Let's say they find 100 text strings that they
interpret as email addresses. Most just look in the outlook address book,
but many now search the outlook message base and all txt and html files ont
he infected machine. Yours is one they find. Perhaps this infected machine
is someone who surfs this group. Perhaps it's someone who you have sent an
email to, or who has sent an email to you. Whatever, your email address is
among the 'lucky' hundred.

The worm starts sending itself to 99 of those email address, posing as the
other one. Left to its own devices with an open connection to the net, it
will do this 100 times, sending itself too everyone it finds in the
infected machine, FROM everyone it finds in the infected machine (the
'from' part is called 'spoofing' the email addresses).

RichZ©
www.richz.com/fishing

Randy,I have had 600 since Thursday morning.I finally called
Mindspring/Earthlink,and they installed spam blocker for me and deleted them
all too.Working well (for now) but we will see.