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READ THIS ,spam mail off the newsgroup
hi everyone I am sure I am not the only one receiving Microsoft's security
updates(viruses as Microsoft don't email to tell you of updates)I am getting hundreds a day, among other Spam mail,returned mail that I haven't sent! I now this isn't about orchids,but this issue needs looking at!is there anyway I can get my email address not to be shown after a posted message,your email address should be private unless you want to give it out!I have had to create more email addresses,& cancel my original.The only way around this I can think of is to create a new email address,private one only give it out to trusted parties.keep the original for newsgroups etc! thanks keith |
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Hi keith,
It is a real pain as it is such a waste of time with virus risks too. There are a lot of us out there bugged by this problem. This does not directly answer your question re this newsgroup but the following may help. I have tried a number of approaches including software such as 'I-hate-Spam' with various degrees of success, but you still waste time downloading them. You could put up a filter system which you visit prior to opening emails when you start getting blitzed. That seems to block out a lot as you can just view the headers and decide then if you want to delete or not. Then only those permitted will arrive at your computer. I use the program 'Email Remover' version 3. which is a free trial version. http://www.eremover.bizhosting.com If that link does not work try searching Google for Email Remover - lots of views on this software there. Good luck Alan "keith" wrote in message ... hi everyone I am sure I am not the only one receiving Microsoft's security updates(viruses as Microsoft don't email to tell you of updates)I am getting hundreds a day, among other Spam mail,returned mail that I haven't sent! I now this isn't about orchids,but this issue needs looking at!is there anyway I can get my email address not to be shown after a posted message,your email address should be private unless you want to give it out!I have had to create more email addresses,& cancel my original.The only way around this I can think of is to create a new email address,private one only give it out to trusted parties.keep the original for newsgroups etc! thanks keith |
READ THIS ,spam mail off the newsgroup
Hoi, Keith I hope you haven't sent me any mails because I'm not getting
anything except viruses for the moment, since 18september, and I'm getting a serious cramp from deleting messages. I'll be changing my E-mail adress and find a way to post without revieling it on the groups. So if anyone want's my adress in the future it will be by postalservice (letter) or telephone. I won't be responding to anything untill I've figured out a sollution. Cheers Peter "keith" schreef in bericht ... hi everyone I am sure I am not the only one receiving Microsoft's security updates(viruses as Microsoft don't email to tell you of updates)I am getting hundreds a day, among other Spam mail,returned mail that I haven't sent! I now this isn't about orchids,but this issue needs looking at!is there anyway I can get my email address not to be shown after a posted message,your email address should be private unless you want to give it out!I have had to create more email addresses,& cancel my original.The only way around this I can think of is to create a new email address,private one only give it out to trusted parties.keep the original for newsgroups etc! thanks keith |
READ THIS ,spam mail off the newsgroup
I, too, have received several hundred of these. As a result, I upgraded my
antivirus software and installed additional internet security and anti-spam programming [Norton Internet Security 2004]. So far, it seems to be working well [today's virus scan with virus definitions updated earlier today pronounced my computer 'clean' and the anti-spam feature is working a lot better than the Outlook Express message rules did]. I will be checking the spam folder before I empty it, to avoid deleting unread mail I actually want to receive, at least for a while. But I would suggest that all of us, if sending private emails to others who post here, use very specific subject lines, to help each other avoid deleting good mail along with the piles of spam ... Death to spammers and hackers! -- Kenni Judd Juno Beach Orchids http://www.jborchids.com "keith" wrote in message ... hi everyone I am sure I am not the only one receiving Microsoft's security updates(viruses as Microsoft don't email to tell you of updates)I am getting hundreds a day, among other Spam mail,returned mail that I haven't sent! I now this isn't about orchids,but this issue needs looking at!is there anyway I can get my email address not to be shown after a posted message,your email address should be private unless you want to give it out!I have had to create more email addresses,& cancel my original.The only way around this I can think of is to create a new email address,private one only give it out to trusted parties.keep the original for newsgroups etc! thanks keith |
READ THIS ,spam mail off the newsgroup
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:13:36 -0400, "Kenni Judd"
wrote: But I would suggest that all of us, if sending private emails to others who post here, use very specific subject lines, to help each other avoid deleting good mail along with the piles of spam ... Death to spammers and hackers! Great ideas Kenni. I just heard from someone whose email I was waiting for that this "little bug" has been causing my address to have a denial of service issue. He could not get anything into my box. It kept overflowing even thou I emptied it several times a day. The other problem is those who just set filters to "bounce". The bounce doubles and sometimes tipples the volume of Garbage out there. Much of what I got was "bounce" with a mangled version of my address as the return. I had sent none of this. My system has not caught the virus. So this thing is mangling harvested addresses and using them as the from address (just what the auto-bounce uses.) We can complain to ISPs and others without bouncing the stuff to someone else. Lets all just delete what we get and GRIPE at the ISPs. I am sure there are some filters that could be set in the first hour to extract the thing. SuE http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php |
READ THIS ,spam mail off the newsgroup
I took a hard line against SPAM a long time ago. I keep one dummy address for everything to get caught by. I keep a real email address for talking to people with, the hitch being everything going there gets deleted by default, except for addresses in a text file buried in my system. I'm getting 5-6000 SPAMS daily. Spammers should be sent to Gitmo. -Rod- Kenni Judd wrote: I, too, have received several hundred of these. As a result, I upgraded my antivirus software and installed additional internet security and anti-spam programming [Norton Internet Security 2004]. So far, it seems to be working well [today's virus scan with virus definitions updated earlier today pronounced my computer 'clean' and the anti-spam feature is working a lot better than the Outlook Express message rules did]. I will be checking the spam folder before I empty it, to avoid deleting unread mail I actually want to receive, at least for a while. But I would suggest that all of us, if sending private emails to others who post here, use very specific subject lines, to help each other avoid deleting good mail along with the piles of spam ... Death to spammers and hackers! -- Kenni Judd Juno Beach Orchids http://www.jborchids.com "keith" wrote in message ... hi everyone I am sure I am not the only one receiving Microsoft's security updates(viruses as Microsoft don't email to tell you of updates)I am getting hundreds a day, among other Spam mail,returned mail that I haven't sent! I now this isn't about orchids,but this issue needs looking at!is there anyway I can get my email address not to be shown after a posted message,your email address should be private unless you want to give it out!I have had to create more email addresses,& cancel my original.The only way around this I can think of is to create a new email address,private one only give it out to trusted parties.keep the original for newsgroups etc! thanks keith |
READ THIS ,spam mail off the newsgroup
"keith" wrote in message ...
hi everyone I am sure I am not the only one receiving Microsoft's security updates(viruses as Microsoft don't email to tell you of updates)I am getting hundreds a day, among other Spam mail,returned mail that I haven't sent! I now this isn't about orchids,but this issue needs looking at!is there anyway I can get my email address not to be shown after a posted message,your email address should be private unless you want to give it out!I have had to create more email addresses,& cancel my original.The only way around this I can think of is to create a new email address,private one only give it out to trusted parties.keep the original for newsgroups etc! thanks keith It is probably the Swen32 worm or some variant of it. It hit here three days ago. J. Del Col |
READ THIS ,spam mail off the newsgroup
"Kenni Judd" wrote in message .. . Still not a perfect world, but so far I highly recommend the Norton Internet Security 2004 package. It's catching 99% of the spam [as opposed to the about 5% that my Message Rules were catching], and has only caught 1 "non-spam" so far -- and that one was "marginal" [a message from e-bay, technically not spam since I do have an account there and they actually had a question ...]. I have been sending the spam in batches to my ISP's Is NIS2004 really out already? I have NIS2003, and it has caught all the viruses attached to the SPAM messages, but it hasn't stopped the SPAM. And Sympatico's anti-spam service on their mail server catches less than 1% of the SPAM: hardly a stellar performance. :-( What did you do to get it to stop the SPAM? I have looked and haven't seen any settings for dealing with SPAM. Cheers, Ted |
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Yes, the ISPs could easily block it (or at least remove the virused
attachment). "Susan Erickson" wrote in message ... On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:13:36 -0400, "Kenni Judd" wrote: But I would suggest that all of us, if sending private emails to others who post here, use very specific subject lines, to help each other avoid deleting good mail along with the piles of spam ... Death to spammers and hackers! Great ideas Kenni. I just heard from someone whose email I was waiting for that this "little bug" has been causing my address to have a denial of service issue. He could not get anything into my box. It kept overflowing even thou I emptied it several times a day. The other problem is those who just set filters to "bounce". The bounce doubles and sometimes tipples the volume of Garbage out there. Much of what I got was "bounce" with a mangled version of my address as the return. I had sent none of this. My system has not caught the virus. So this thing is mangling harvested addresses and using them as the from address (just what the auto-bounce uses.) We can complain to ISPs and others without bouncing the stuff to someone else. Lets all just delete what we get and GRIPE at the ISPs. I am sure there are some filters that could be set in the first hour to extract the thing. SuE http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php |
READ THIS ,spam mail off the newsgroup
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 |
READ THIS ,spam mail off the newsgroup
Trying what you said
Thanks if this works Cheers Peter BTW thanks anyway "Gene Schurg" schreef in bericht nk.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 |
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Failed the first time, so trying again
Cheers Peter "Boystrup Pb, ann,..." schreef in bericht .be... Trying what you said Thanks if this works Cheers Peter BTW thanks anyway "Gene Schurg" schreef in bericht nk.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 |
READ THIS ,spam mail off the newsgroup
"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 |
READ THIS ,spam mail off the newsgroup
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 "J. Del Col" wrote in message 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 |
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