Re: Hundreds of Microsoft emails
From: Jason (Jason_at_beer.it.does.the.body.good)
Date: 09/30/03
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 06:21:22 -0300
* Tom <xxx@home.com>:
> If I open my email program, I now receive pretty much
> every other second an email from Microsoft.
>
>
> Again, I am receiving now hundreds of emails (allegedly)
> from Microsoft. I know this is some worm, but I have no
> idea how to stop it.
>
> This is what I have done:
> - Followed Microsoft 1-2-3 Step recommendation
> (installing the firewall, downloading all updates,
> updating Anti-virus program).
Always a good idea now a days regardless of what is happening
> - Called MS Support. The engineer believed that the
> removal tool "W32.Sobig.F" would fix it. I ran that
> tool.... it didn't find any virus nor worms.
I'm sure the was an expensive phone call.
>
> Short of changing my email address, does anyone know how
> to prevent getting all of these emails? The rules
> wizard does not work either to automatically delete the
> emails permanantly.
Unnecessary, not to mention that that address would eventually get hit
with spam and the virus upadtes anyhow.
> Right now, Norton prompts me that each email is
> infected. Hence it does remove the attachments; however,
> I still would have to acknowledge "Finished" for each
> incoming email.
>
> This is soooo annoying!!!! PLEASE HELP!!!!!
>
>
> Tom
>
> P.S. I have now even used a bogus email since this all
> started once I used the MS-Newsgrous regularly.
>
The last one is the one you should have been doing from the start Tom.
Never post on usenst with your real email address. If you don't want to
use a totally fake one mung it up in such a way that a human can tell
but the bots won't be able to, or set up an email account specfically
for usenet so that if it gets hammered you can just drop it and set up
another.
Jason
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