I will go absolutely bananas if this doesn't work.
I'm seriously running out of patience with A)'!"§§( virus makers.
Cheers
Thanks for the help
Peter

"J. Del Col" schreef in bericht
m...
"Gene Schurg" wrote in message
ink.net...
OK folks,

All of you are putting your email address out there for the Bots that
walk
the web to pick up.

For example the Bot looks at the news group and sees:

"J. Del Col" wrote in message
m...
"keith" wrote in message
...


From that they can harvest two valid email addresses.

Go into your newsgroup reader and change the email address to something
that
invalidates the address you post when you post to this newsgroup such as



The Bot would now pick an invalid email that would bounce back.

Someone manually typing would know to remove the "NOSPAM" to send you a
valid email. It should be easy to do in your newreader software. For
Outlook Express go to Accounts and then pick Properties.

When I did this my spam dropped dramatically!

Now get back to growing Orchids!

Gene

This won't stop 32.Swen. It is an auto-mailer worm that hijacks the
e-mail lists of people who -do- know your real e-mail address and then
sends itself to you in an avalanche of phony
Microsoft e-mails.

It also attempts to disable anti-virus programs.

If people are being bombarded by scores of such e-mails every day, it
means that someone with whom they exchange e-mail has been hit by
32.Swen or one of its morphs.


It's become a -big- problem on the net.

J. Del Col

haha, petergoingbananas- got to love it. Now relax and go and smell the
orchids.
"Boystrup Pb, ann,..." wrote in
message .be...
I will go absolutely bananas if this doesn't work.
I'm seriously running out of patience with A)'!"§§( virus makers.
Cheers
Thanks for the help
Peter

"J. Del Col" schreef in bericht
m...
"Gene Schurg" wrote in message
ink.net...
OK folks,

All of you are putting your email address out there for the Bots that
walk
the web to pick up.

For example the Bot looks at the news group and sees:

"J. Del Col" wrote in message
m...
"keith" wrote in message
...


From that they can harvest two valid email addresses.

Go into your newsgroup reader and change the email address to
something
that
invalidates the address you post when you post to this newsgroup such
as



The Bot would now pick an invalid email that would bounce back.

Someone manually typing would know to remove the "NOSPAM" to send you
a
valid email. It should be easy to do in your newreader software. For
Outlook Express go to Accounts and then pick Properties.

When I did this my spam dropped dramatically!

Now get back to growing Orchids!

Gene

This won't stop 32.Swen. It is an auto-mailer worm that hijacks the
e-mail lists of people who -do- know your real e-mail address and then
sends itself to you in an avalanche of phony
Microsoft e-mails.

It also attempts to disable anti-virus programs.

If people are being bombarded by scores of such e-mails every day, it
means that someone with whom they exchange e-mail has been hit by
32.Swen or one of its morphs.


It's become a -big- problem on the net.

J. Del Col

Haleluja, it realy works
Hip hip hurra, hip hip hurra, hip hip hurra...
Thankyou, thankyou thankyou oh all you great orchid lover, growers and
newsgroup posters.
All good things comes in threes, except virusses
Cheers
Peter

"Boystrup Pb, ann,..." schreef in
bericht .be...
I will go absolutely bananas if this doesn't work.
I'm seriously running out of patience with A)'!"§§( virus makers.
Cheers
Thanks for the help
Peter

"J. Del Col" schreef in bericht
m...
"Gene Schurg" wrote in message
ink.net...
OK folks,

All of you are putting your email address out there for the Bots that
walk
the web to pick up.

For example the Bot looks at the news group and sees:

"J. Del Col" wrote in message
m...
"keith" wrote in message
...


From that they can harvest two valid email addresses.

Go into your newsgroup reader and change the email address to
something
that
invalidates the address you post when you post to this newsgroup such
as



The Bot would now pick an invalid email that would bounce back.

Someone manually typing would know to remove the "NOSPAM" to send you
a
valid email. It should be easy to do in your newreader software. For
Outlook Express go to Accounts and then pick Properties.

When I did this my spam dropped dramatically!

Now get back to growing Orchids!

Gene

This won't stop 32.Swen. It is an auto-mailer worm that hijacks the
e-mail lists of people who -do- know your real e-mail address and then
sends itself to you in an avalanche of phony
Microsoft e-mails.

It also attempts to disable anti-virus programs.

If people are being bombarded by scores of such e-mails every day, it
means that someone with whom they exchange e-mail has been hit by
32.Swen or one of its morphs.


It's become a -big- problem on the net.

J. Del Col

"Diane M." wrote in message
t...
ok group- I've taken out my ISP from these messages, not fair- I like
getting legitimate mail. Not much is in my email these days- most is in
the
automatically deleted file. Diane

Have you checked with your ISP to see if they offer antispam services? I
did, and enabled it around noon today (I had thought it was already active,
but somehow, when I checked today, it was turned off on my account). My ISP
provides it free, presumably because of their concerns about efficient use
of their email server and bandwidth. Their antispam service can catch the
spam before it hits the server so your account never sees it unless you
configure your account so that trapped spam is saved in a folder on the
server so you can examine it before it is trashed. Before noon, today
alone, I had received about 500 messages (with a total approximately 5000
since Thursday). Since noon, I have had about a dozen. While it isn't
perfect, it is a dramatic improvement. But it will likely take some
diligence since these modern worms and viruses try to shut down any security
related software they can see, should they get a chance to run; so, if I see
a sudden increase in spam, I'll be checking this first.

HTH

Ted

yes its active- I guess I'd be deleting more if I had not. Its just that I
know we are being watched, and unlike email, the newsgroup is out there for
everyone to see your name and address. Not necessary. If we want to email
each other it will be easy enough to share this info.
honestly I can't see how a lot of this gets past the ISP, Some are really
raunchy. If made into a paragraph what I have in my message rules...It
might be reported for content. Frankly the only 4 inches I might want to
grow is hair

I have these messages being forwarded to the ISP as instructed- If every
customer did this, the server would have a real problem.
current status 0 in inbox 40 deleted


"Ted Byers" wrote in message
.. .

"Diane M." wrote in message
t...
ok group- I've taken out my ISP from these messages, not fair- I like
getting legitimate mail. Not much is in my email these days- most is in
the
automatically deleted file. Diane

Have you checked with your ISP to see if they offer antispam services? I
did, and enabled it around noon today (I had thought it was already
active,
but somehow, when I checked today, it was turned off on my account). My
ISP
provides it free, presumably because of their concerns about efficient use
of their email server and bandwidth. Their antispam service can catch the
spam before it hits the server so your account never sees it unless you
configure your account so that trapped spam is saved in a folder on the
server so you can examine it before it is trashed. Before noon, today
alone, I had received about 500 messages (with a total approximately 5000
since Thursday). Since noon, I have had about a dozen. While it isn't
perfect, it is a dramatic improvement. But it will likely take some
diligence since these modern worms and viruses try to shut down any
security
related software they can see, should they get a chance to run; so, if I
see
a sudden increase in spam, I'll be checking this first.

HTH

Ted