My e-mail address

Jon C <jon@jonnythan.com> wrote:
>Not to jump on you, but that's a shitty solution. In the past 4 days I've
>gotten 1573 virus emails, and every one of them has been easily filtered and
>dumped into the trash folder by 12 simple Outlook Express mail rules.
>They're easy to filter. I can give you more info if you want.

I gotta laugh at your phrase "12 simple mail rules."

When it takes that many to deal with a single worm, god help you by
the end of the year. All real mail will be nuked by then.

--
Jason O'Rourke www.jor.com

I'm having pretty much the same problems, my yahoo account that I use for
all newsgroups and mailing lists and stuff is filling up overnight and
probably bouncing mail.

If you do get any mail rejected from this email account, just try again. I
keep it clear throughout the day.

Either that or go to either of the sites in the sig and find another email
address!

Cheers

CAS
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In article <TlObb.65596$NM1.22959@newsread2.news.atl.earthlin k.net>,
"Lee Bell" <leebell@ix.remove.netcom.com> wrote:

> > "Jon C" <jon@jonnythan.com> entertained us with:
> > :Not to jump on you, but that's a shitty solution. In the past 4 days
> I've
> > :gotten 1573 virus emails, and every one of them has been easily filtered
> and
> > :dumped into the trash folder by 12 simple Outlook Express mail rules.
> > :They're easy to filter. I can give you more info if you want.
>
> It is a shitty solution, but it beats having messages I'm supposed to be
> receiving related to the Dive With Greg event bounce because my quota fills
> in less than an an hour, sometimes much less. The higher level of security
> blocks messages at the server, at least letting me retrive the ones I want
> before I delete the rest.
>
> Lee
>
>

If you are on earthlink, you may find that the "suspect mail" goes into
a folder that also uses up your quota.

--
--Chandler

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:09:43 GMT, Chandler <joechandler@earthling.net>
wrote:


>> It is a shitty solution, but it beats having messages I'm supposed to be
>> receiving related to the Dive With Greg event bounce because my quota fills
>> in less than an an hour, sometimes much less. The higher level of security
>> blocks messages at the server, at least letting me retrive the ones I want
>> before I delete the rest.

>If you are on earthlink, you may find that the "suspect mail" goes into
>a folder that also uses up your quota.

Yes, and if you're using Yahoo Mail, with the virus sending about 50
spams to me every 15 minutes, it fills up my mailbox, bouncing other
messages back to sender. Plus, with Yahoo, there is no filter to
delete spam at server, so even if I use filters, it backs up in my
deleted file, which also fills my box.

Yahoo's solution: Buy the premium service with more space.
Not a bad business plan. (For Yahoo.)

Of course, if I thought enough people would fall for that, I'd be more
likely to buy their stock than their premium service. <grin>

-HW "Skip" Weldon
Columbia, SC

"Jason O'Rourke" <jor@soda.csua.berkeley.edu> wrote in message
news:bkoqhk$vg5$1@agate.berkeley.edu...
> Jon C <jon@jonnythan.com> wrote:
> >Not to jump on you, but that's a shitty solution. In the past 4 days
I've
> >gotten 1573 virus emails, and every one of them has been easily filtered
and
> >dumped into the trash folder by 12 simple Outlook Express mail rules.
> >They're easy to filter. I can give you more info if you want.
>
> I gotta laugh at your phrase "12 simple mail rules."
>
> When it takes that many to deal with a single worm, god help you by
> the end of the year. All real mail will be nuked by then.
>

I laughed at that too, actually. The thing is that this particular virus
has so many variations on the same email. I've filtered "Undeliverable to,"
"Undeliverable mail to," "Undelivered mail to," etc.

"HW \"Skip\" Weldon" <skip5700@yahoo.com> entertained us with:
:Yes, and if you're using Yahoo Mail, with the virus sending about 50
:spams to me every 15 minutes, it fills up my mailbox, bouncing other
:messages back to sender. Plus, with Yahoo, there is no filter to
:delete spam at server, so even if I use filters, it backs up in my
:deleted file, which also fills my box.
:
:Yahoo's solution: Buy the premium service with more space.
:Not a bad business plan. (For Yahoo.)
:
:Of course, if I thought enough people would fall for that, I'd be more
:likely to buy their stock than their premium service. <grin>

I have a free Yahoo account and am grateful that they are willing to provide
that service at no cost to me. I also think it is quite appropriate that they
are willing to provide something better to those who are willing to pay for it.
I don't see anybody falling for anything.

Dan Bracuk
As Big Ben said to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, I've got the time if you've got the inclination.
The Best of Rec.Scuba
http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/


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"Lee Bell" <leebell@ix.remove.netcom.com> entertained us with:
:If I could filter on the name of the attachment, I could catch pretty much
:all the problem messages, but I can't.

They seem to be about as random as the senders and subjects. Not sure that
would work.


Dan Bracuk
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> :If I could filter on the name of the attachment, I could catch pretty
much
> :all the problem messages, but I can't.

> They seem to be about as random as the senders and subjects. Not sure
that
> would work.

Most, if not all of the ones I'm getting are called Norton Antivirus
Deleted1.txt If I could get rid of all messages contained that file, I
would not worry about handling the rest. For what it's worth, I'm running a
computer on my service pretty much 24/7 until this thing goes away.
Earthlink can't or won't filter viruses at the server, not a good move for a
major ISP. When I restricted mail to those in my address book, things
actually got worse. I didn't have to separate my good mail from the bad
because in only a few hours, I reached my limit and stopped getting any mail
at all, good or bad. While no mail may be better than bad mail, it's not
something I'm inclined to pay an ISP for.

So, on the theory that it will take longer to fill my two 80 gig hard drives
than to fill my 10 meg allocation on the ISP server, I'm letting everything
through to the local level and deleting it here. The filter I built to help
is now catching the majority of the virus originated messages. I just kept
adding terms to it until it caught more than it let past. God help me if
anybody names MS, Micorsoft, Administrator or anything similar actually
sends me something important. Out of 49 messages received in the hour it
took me to turn off the computer I use for personal stuff in the office and
travel to the computer I use for personal stuff at home, it diverted 45 of
them directly to the delete folder. Two of the remaining 4 were actually
messages to me. 8^)

Lee

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 00:15:10 GMT, "Lee Bell"
<leebell@ix.remove.netcom.com> wrote:


> Out of 49 messages received in the hour it
>took me to turn off the computer I use for personal stuff in the office and
>travel to the computer I use for personal stuff at home, it diverted 45 of
>them directly to the delete folder. Two of the remaining 4 were actually
>messages to me. 8^)

That's what I'm doing, too.
Any ideas about how this will eventually be resolved?

-HW "Skip" Weldon
Columbia, SC

> That's what I'm doing, too.
> Any ideas about how this will eventually be resolved?

The guys I know that are in this business indicate that most viruses of this
type have an expiration date. They eventually die of their own accord.
Beyond that, I don't know. Tracking down the responsible party and cutting
him or her up into very small pieces has a certain appeal.

Lee