Re: Emails coming in with viruses

From: Phil Weldon (pweldon_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 09/23/03 

Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 04:34:31 GMT

Only your ISP can do that. You can, with some effort, prevent these e-mails
from being seen, but if you don't a mail server, then you are at the mercy
of your ISP, and may have to empty targeted mailboxes as often as every five
minutes, 24/7 to ensure legitimate e-mails are not bounced because the
typical 10 MByte limit is exceeded.
Phil Weldon, pweldon@mindspring.com

"Lori" <lori@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:111b01c38145$af045890$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Thanks for your reply. Yes I am aware of the name of the
> virus for we are running Norton's corporate
> edition....however how do you stop all the emails from
> coming in.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Lori, it is the Sven virus. Except the last couple of
> messages have not
> >been recognized as virus infected. It appears to have
> mutated already...
> >Or some kid with nothing better to do or some terrorist
> with time on their
> >hands helped the mutation out... As for the messages, i
> am getting 1 every
> >4 minutes or so since saturday. Good luck. charlie
> >
> >"Lori" <lori@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:10ee01c38143$1e400590$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> >> We as a company are receiving the virus email from
> >> Microsoft to ask for update service pack. It is non-
> stop.
> >> Many various employees are receiving it through there
> >> email accounts. The president is now recieving them and
> is
> >> not happy :-(
> >>
> >> We cannot simply change everyones email accounts. This
> is
> >> getting very annoying for we will recieve 80-100 emails
> a
> >> day to one single account. Include all others that is
> over
> >> 500 emails a day.
> >>
> >> We know already that Microsoft never emails patches. So
> >> know one needs to tell me this.....However if you know
> of
> >> a way that we can stop all these emails from coming in
> >> that would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Also when you right click the email and go to options
> the
> >> destination email address varies everytime.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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