Will it ever stop?

Same thing with me. So annoying...

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Same here.. but this time, was the first..

I was getting these bogus messages myself. Does this mean I''m infected?

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I was getting these bogus messages myself. Does this mean I''m infected?

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Not necessarily. It just means that your email is in the address book of someone who is infected. I aused to get tons of those. On my 100% Windows free non-Intel IRIX workstation. But it got a little better recently.

OTOH, I get tons of those "Re: your details", "Re: Approved" etc, 100kB large virus mails. Those are really annoying. Especially if you get 30 of them, that''s 3MB on a dialup connection. I think I''ll filter out any mail with "Please see the attached file for details." in the body.

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Original post by Yann L
Not necessarily. It just means that your email is in the address book of someone who is infected. I aused to get tons of those. On my 100% Windows free non-Intel IRIX workstation. But it got a little better recently.

OTOH, I get tons of those "Re: your details", "Re: Approved" etc, 100kB large virus mails. Those are really annoying. Especially if you get 30 of them, that''s 3MB on a dialup connection. I think I''ll filter out any mail with "Please see the attached file for details." in the body.

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The 100K ones you speak of are the ones I was getting. I got nailed by about 10 a day for a week straight and it totally fucked my hotmail account all up. I thought I might have had MSBlast, but I was safe there.

This copy of planet Earth has been unregistered for 4 billion years.

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Original post by Yann L
I think I''ll filter out any mail with "Please see the attached file for details." in the body.

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Filter this out: "ee the attached file for details". Some mails leave out the please (so the s in see is capital). Also, some messages leave out the dot at the end of the sentance.

I have that filter for three weeks now. Not a single message since.

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Original post by Yann L
OTOH, I get tons of those "Re: your details", "Re: Approved" etc, 100kB large virus mails. Those are really annoying. Especially if you get 30 of them, that's 3MB on a dialup connection. I think I'll filter out any mail with "Please see the attached file for details." in the body.

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You could filter them before downloading them from your mail server.

OP: No, it will never stop.

[edited by - owl on September 3, 2003 5:49:41 PM]

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Original post by Sander
Filter this out: "ee the attached file for details". Some mails leave out the please (so the s in see is capital). Also, some messages leave out the dot at the end of the sentance.

I have that filter for three weeks now. Not a single message since.

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Good idea. Filter is now active. Let''s see how it works out.

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You could filter them before downloading them from your mail server.

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That''s the plan - now everything containing the above mentioned sentence goes straight to /dev/null.

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Original post by Sander
I have that filter for three weeks now. Not a single message since.

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You poor lonely man.

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Original post by Yann L

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I was getting these bogus messages myself. Does this mean I''m infected?

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Not necessarily. It just means that your email is in the address book of someone who is infected. I aused to get tons of those. On my 100% Windows free non-Intel IRIX workstation. But it got a little better recently.

OTOH, I get tons of those "Re: your details", "Re: Approved" etc, 100kB large virus mails. Those are really annoying. Especially if you get 30 of them, that''s 3MB on a dialup connection. I think I''ll filter out any mail with "Please see the attached file for details." in the body.

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Kind of makes me glad I use webmail for everything, you just delete it without d/ling it .

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Original post by Yann L
Not necessarily. It just means that your email is in the address book of someone who is infected. I aused to get tons of those. On my 100% Windows free non-Intel IRIX workstation. But it got a little better recently.

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It also harvests from web cache, etc.

Anyway, yeah, on my BSD shell account (running on an Alpha, very nice proc set) I''ve been getting tons of Klez.H.

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I got, for like a week, over 18/day, just enough to exceede my quota with 1MB, which caused any subsequent e-mails fail. And that was highly annoying, had to empty my Bulk folder every 2-3 hours. Not it almost stopped.

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