"Boystrup Pb, ann,..." wrote in message
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I'm here but drowning in incoming viruses on my old adress. Sent you a

I have received over 5000 of these things since Thursday. Close to 500 came
in just this morning. Late last week, I had worked with my ISP support
office to reconfigure how their anti-spam works with my account. All seemed
OK for a short while, but then the flood renewed. I checked just before
lunch and the anti-spam service had been turned off on my account, so I
turned it back on. In the past three hours, I have received maybe half a
dozen spam messages, yet at the rate they were coming this morning, I would
have had another 500, give or take a few dozen, in that time.

My point is, my ISP provides antispam services free of charge, but it has to
be activated by the user! Your ISP may do so too. You may want to check
with your ISP to see if they do offer antispam services. Maybe, if they
have the sense to offer free antispam services (for the sake of efficient
use of their mail server and bandwidth), you may be able to preserve the
original functionality of your old email address. And if they do, make sure
it is active on your account, and then recheck it once in a while to make
sure it remains active. After all, one of the things viruses and worms try
to do these days is knock down security software. If they have a chance to
start on a machine, the first thing they'll try to do is shut down any
security software, such as fire walls, virus scanners, spam control
intrusion detection services, &c.

HTH,

Ted