I thaught so too, but I have a free dialup internetlink. The other options
are twice as ecspensive as just paying for the phone costs. Because it's a
free service they do not offer any other service than 4mb of space at my
server. So as the virus files come in and wait the space fills up and the
oldest are deleted once the space is full. Now I have found a way to start
OE without downloading my messages on the infected e-mail adres.
I can send messages and my pc is virus free, using 3 different virus
scanners I have been keeping it clean. a firewall doesn't work because the
files will build up on the servers space and still delete all other
messages. The firewall only keeps them off my PC.
I wrote my provider and server, Belgacom, They told me that it was normal
that people, who are to cheap to pay for kabel and wish to use normal dial
up connections, to have problems like this. Their advice was, to order a
kabel connection and they would then give me a connection with the same
e-mail adress.
I realy realy want to *+-/ç(è'")")( one of the people doing this virus BS.
Cheers
Peter


"Ted Byers" schreef in bericht
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"Boystrup Pb, ann,..." wrote in message
.be...
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