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Fred Williams wrote in
: It's a virus acting like a hacker. Do not open any attachements, especially if you have M$ Window$ of any type. The virus is called W32/Swen@MM and it tends to harvest email addresses from Usenet postings. It's been a wild couple of days for me; I've deleted hundreds of these things (without opening them, of course). Maybe you can answer a related question. I'm running Outlook Express on a Win98 machine. I'm trying to block these things by setting up a message rule to delete anything with an attachment. It works fine to move them automatically to my deleted message folder, but I'd like to avoid downloading them to start with. Unfortunately, selecting "don't download from server" as part of the rule doesn't seem to work. In fact, when I create a rule, the first line in its conditions reads "apply after the message is received". By then, of course, it's too late to avoid downloading it. Does anyone know how to get this right in Outlook Express? -- Steve Gray |
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"Bonnie Granat" wrote in
: "G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message ... My web has about 50 email every 5 minutes. all from addresses that don't have a proper address.Good email can't get through,because my web can't hold any more. What should I do? Bert I made a few message rules in Outlook Express and I'm not bothered at all now. The messages are deleted from my server. I'm trying to do that in Outlook Express, but whenever I create a new rule the first line is "Apply after messages are received". By then it's too late to prevent downloading. I can't seem to get rid of this. How did you do it? -- Steve Gray |
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"Bonnie Granat" wrote in
: "G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message ... My web has about 50 email every 5 minutes. all from addresses that don't have a proper address.Good email can't get through,because my web can't hold any more. What should I do? Bert I made a few message rules in Outlook Express and I'm not bothered at all now. The messages are deleted from my server. I'm trying to do that in Outlook Express, but whenever I create a new rule the first line is "Apply after messages are received". By then it's too late to prevent downloading. I can't seem to get rid of this. How did you do it? -- Steve Gray |
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"Phyloe" wrote in message ... I had the exact same thing. Some from Postmaster? Allot from MS about patches? Nonsense e-mail addresses with Yahoo? Undeliverable mail you did not send in the first place? I think it is some sort of virus. I changed my e-mail address and it stopped. Norton was highly recommended and I may have to go to Best Buy. Phyloe You have got to be joking, Norton is bloated crapware that can balls up your system if not installed/uninstalled properly. Get a cheaper, or free, scanner that is only about 2-5 meg in size. |
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"Phyloe" wrote in message ... I had the exact same thing. Some from Postmaster? Allot from MS about patches? Nonsense e-mail addresses with Yahoo? Undeliverable mail you did not send in the first place? I think it is some sort of virus. I changed my e-mail address and it stopped. Norton was highly recommended and I may have to go to Best Buy. Phyloe You have got to be joking, Norton is bloated crapware that can balls up your system if not installed/uninstalled properly. Get a cheaper, or free, scanner that is only about 2-5 meg in size. |
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I downloaded the Norton free trial anti-virus.It scanned my files and
found 4 adware (viruses?) You might want to try that. Phyloe "G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message ... My web has about 50 email every 5 minutes. all from addresses that don't have a proper address.Good email can't get through,because my web can't hold any more. What should I do? Bert |
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I downloaded the Norton free trial anti-virus.It scanned my files and
found 4 adware (viruses?) You might want to try that. Phyloe "G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message ... My web has about 50 email every 5 minutes. all from addresses that don't have a proper address.Good email can't get through,because my web can't hold any more. What should I do? Bert |
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Gypsy Baron wrote,
Unfortuneately you didn't go far enough. Your "real" address still appears in the From: line of your USNET posts. Well it seems OK so far. The private addy is still completely clean. Knock on wood.g oc Anti-spam address: oldcoot88atwebtv.net Change 'at' to@ |
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Gypsy Baron wrote,
Unfortuneately you didn't go far enough. Your "real" address still appears in the From: line of your USNET posts. Well it seems OK so far. The private addy is still completely clean. Knock on wood.g oc Anti-spam address: oldcoot88atwebtv.net Change 'at' to@ |
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"Steven Gray" wrote in message ... Fred Williams wrote in : It's a virus acting like a hacker. Do not open any attachements, especially if you have M$ Window$ of any type. The virus is called W32/Swen@MM and it tends to harvest email addresses from Usenet postings. It's been a wild couple of days for me; I've deleted hundreds of these things (without opening them, of course). Maybe you can answer a related question. I'm running Outlook Express on a Win98 machine. I'm trying to block these things by setting up a message rule to delete anything with an attachment. It works fine to move them automatically to my deleted message folder, but I'd like to avoid downloading them to start with. Unfortunately, selecting "don't download from server" as part of the rule doesn't seem to work. In fact, when I create a rule, the first line in its conditions reads "apply after the message is received". By then, of course, it's too late to avoid downloading it. Does anyone know how to get this right in Outlook Express? These are my rules. I built them up a little at a time, adding words each time I needed to. So you can combine some of these, but be sure you do a rule for the From, To, and Subject fields. Rule 1 Apply this rule after the message arrives Where the From line contains 'Microsoft Corporation Network Security Center' or 'message delivery system' or 'Technical Bulletin' or 'Microsoft' or 'MS Corporation Public Support' or 'Security' or 'MS' or 'Public' or 'Postmaster' Delete it from server Rule 2 Apply this rule after the message arrives Where the Subject line contains 'Security Pack' or 'Pack' or 'Security' or 'Newest' or 'Critical' or 'Patch' or 'Net' or 'mailer' or 'New Update' or 'Technical Support' or 'Message' or 'Network' or 'Customer' or 'Corporation' or 'Bug' or 'Virus' or 'Warning' or 'Upgrade' or 'Update' or 'Latest' or 'Security Center' or 'Internet' or 'MS Customer Support' Delete it from server Rule 3 Apply this rule after the message arrives Where the Subject line contains 'Patch' or 'Critical' or 'Microsoft' or 'Latest' or 'Newest' or 'security update' or 'Network' or 'Security' or 'MS' or 'Newest Internet' Delete it Rule 4 Apply this rule after the message arrives Where the Subject line contains 'Patch' or 'Critical' or 'Microsoft' or 'Latest' or 'Newest' or 'security update' or 'Network' or 'Security' or 'MS' or 'Newest Internet' Delete it Rule 5 Apply this rule after the message arrives Where the Subject line contains 'Message' or 'Network' or 'Customer' or 'Delivery' Delete it from server -- ___________________________ Bonnie Granat Granat Editorial Services http://www.editors-writers.info Fast | Accurate | Affordable |
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