My email is bugged or has a virus ??

"Steven Gray" wrote in message
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Fred Williams wrote in
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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






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"Phyloe" wrote in message
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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.

Just to confirm this, I installed SystemWorks (a real oxymoron) and one
of its components started taking 95% of the resources when the computer
was "idle". SETI@Home was left out in the cold! It's probably worth
installing it to fix a problem and doing an uninstall, though.
--
"Forty millions of miles it was from us, more than forty millions of miles of
void"
Remove spam and invalid from address to reply.

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writes

"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.

Just to confirm this, I installed SystemWorks (a real oxymoron) and one
of its components started taking 95% of the resources when the computer
was "idle". SETI@Home was left out in the cold! It's probably worth
installing it to fix a problem and doing an uninstall, though.
--
"Forty millions of miles it was from us, more than forty millions of miles of
void"
Remove spam and invalid from address to reply.

"Bonnie Granat" wrote in
:


"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

Thanks. I notice that your rules also start with the line "Apply this rule
after the message arrives." Does it still result in the message _not_
being downloaded if you say "delete it from the server"? I tried
eliminating all this stuff by deleting anything with an attachment. It
works fine to move them to my deleted folder, but I can't get it to delete
them without downloading them.

--
Steve Gray

"Bonnie Granat" wrote in
:


"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

Thanks. I notice that your rules also start with the line "Apply this rule
after the message arrives." Does it still result in the message _not_
being downloaded if you say "delete it from the server"? I tried
eliminating all this stuff by deleting anything with an attachment. It
works fine to move them to my deleted folder, but I can't get it to delete
them without downloading them.

--
Steve Gray

When ever you post on a newsgroup, you should use a SPAM block of some kind. I
used to use the following:

starlord*inreach.com the spam software would not see it as a address to
collect and if it did try using it, it never got anywhere, but now I use the
FREE service of Despammed.com and their filters do a fine job of stopping spam
or anything else that's not nice. For the virus you'll note I use a free virus
protection on my machine and my ISP has installed virus / spam blocking software
too.



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towards an east that would not know another dawn.
But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning
lingered: and along the path he once had followed, man would one day go
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Delete it from server

Thanks. I notice that your rules also start with the line "Apply this rule
after the message arrives." Does it still result in the message _not_
being downloaded if you say "delete it from the server"? I tried
eliminating all this stuff by deleting anything with an attachment. It
works fine to move them to my deleted folder, but I can't get it to delete
them without downloading them.

--
Steve Gray



---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.515 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/03

When ever you post on a newsgroup, you should use a SPAM block of some kind. I
used to use the following:

starlord*inreach.com the spam software would not see it as a address to
collect and if it did try using it, it never got anywhere, but now I use the
FREE service of Despammed.com and their filters do a fine job of stopping spam
or anything else that's not nice. For the virus you'll note I use a free virus
protection on my machine and my ISP has installed virus / spam blocking software
too.



--
"In this universe the night was falling,the shadows were lengthening
towards an east that would not know another dawn.
But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning
lingered: and along the path he once had followed, man would one day go
again."

Arthur C. Clarke, The City & The Stars

SIAR
www.starlords.org
Freelance Writers Shop
http://www.freelancewrittersshop.netfirms.com
Telescope Buyers FAQ
http://home.inreach.com/starlord

Delete it from server

Thanks. I notice that your rules also start with the line "Apply this rule
after the message arrives." Does it still result in the message _not_
being downloaded if you say "delete it from the server"? I tried
eliminating all this stuff by deleting anything with an attachment. It
works fine to move them to my deleted folder, but I can't get it to delete
them without downloading them.

--
Steve Gray



---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.515 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/03

Steven Gray wrote:
snip
Thanks. I notice that your rules also start with the line "Apply
this rule
after the message arrives." Does it still result in the message
_not_
being downloaded if you say "delete it from the server"? I tried
eliminating all this stuff by deleting anything with an attachment.
It works fine to move them to my deleted folder, but I can't get it
to delete them without downloading them.


If you're still using M$ Window$ you may want to look into a mail
client called Pegasus. It's not perfect, but it does have a menu
item called "Selective Mail Download" which downloads only the
headers and lets you dedcide which ones you want to delete from the
server before downloading the whole messages. I don't remember how
automated you can get with this, and you need another program for
newsgroups, for which I recommend Gravity from MicroPlanet.
I'm using Linux, so the thing can't infect my computer, but it can
play havoc with my server and mail connection.

--
Regards
Fred

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Steven Gray wrote:
snip
Thanks. I notice that your rules also start with the line "Apply
this rule
after the message arrives." Does it still result in the message
_not_
being downloaded if you say "delete it from the server"? I tried
eliminating all this stuff by deleting anything with an attachment.
It works fine to move them to my deleted folder, but I can't get it
to delete them without downloading them.


If you're still using M$ Window$ you may want to look into a mail
client called Pegasus. It's not perfect, but it does have a menu
item called "Selective Mail Download" which downloads only the
headers and lets you dedcide which ones you want to delete from the
server before downloading the whole messages. I don't remember how
automated you can get with this, and you need another program for
newsgroups, for which I recommend Gravity from MicroPlanet.
I'm using Linux, so the thing can't infect my computer, but it can
play havoc with my server and mail connection.

--
Regards
Fred

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Fred Williams wrote in
:


If you're still using M$ Window$ you may want to look into a
mail
client called Pegasus. It's not perfect, but it does have a menu

Thanks. I'll take a look at it.

item called "Selective Mail Download" which downloads only the
headers and lets you dedcide which ones you want to delete from the
server before downloading the whole messages. I don't remember how
automated you can get with this, and you need another program for
newsgroups, for which I recommend Gravity from MicroPlanet.
I'm using Linux, so the thing can't infect my computer, but it
can
play havoc with my server and mail connection.

Right. I'm not worried about getting infected since I know better than to
open the things (and Win98 may not be susceptible anyway), but receiving
them by the hundreds is annoying.


--
Steve Gray