Re: It's driving me crazy!
From: Richard Mueller (rlmueller-nospam_at_ameritech.net)
Date: 10/30/03
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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:11:04 -0800
I need to stay connected to the Internet all day, every
day, to keep from exceeding the limit on my email account
on the SBC server. During peak periods, I exceed my 25MB
limit in 4 hours. When this happens the account is
disabled and all subsequent mail is lost, with no
notifications. If I use a spam blocker, the mail is placed
in a folder on the server, which fills up fast, causing my
account to be disabled. When I tried the spam blocker
briefly, it let many spam and virus messages through. Most
of the messages blocked where Swen related, but this
feature caused my limit to be exceeded.
When I complained, they claimed that they do scan for
viruses, but so far they have missed about 26,000 of mine.
After much discussion, I think what they mean is that if
my mail stays on their server long enough, a scan might
recognize it. Of course, I can't risk leaving my mail on
the server, so that feature is of no use.
I have started getting a few Yahoo messages lately saying
they have blocked a virus infected message. My guess is
that sometimes their scan sees mail in my account. Of
course, these messages themselves are similar to virus
hoax messages, spam, or infected messages. I have to deal
with them, and they are actually more difficult to filter
since the virus signature is usually removed. I would need
to code a signature for each ISP that blocks messages to
me. The variety of such messages I've seen is large.
In the last few days I've started to get Swen related
messages that my scanning program does not recognize, but
that cause my Outlook to freeze when I try to preview
them. I had to code a VBScript program to read the
messages. They turn out to be notices that an infected
message has been blocked. They appear to be from an ISP in
Japan. It looks like the virus code is still there (code
that attempts to use the iframe file download exploit),
but the worm attachment is stripped off. Either the
exploit code hangs Outlook, or the crazy characters in the
message, or Outlook is attempting to download foreign
fonts and fails because I'm not connected to the Internet.
Whatever, it is troubling because Outlook hangs everytime
I touch one of these things and I have to restart the app.
It also scares me and I spend more time scanning for
viruses. I may have to add a signature to my program to
handle these.
What a development - I'm forced to code my own programs to
deal with virus related messages. A complete waste.
Richard
Microsoft MVP Scripting and ADSI
>-----Original Message-----
>In article <4BB22D6F-1023-478A-B764-
23BAE1B22EFE@microsoft.com>, rlmueller-
>nospam@ameritech.net says...
>> Only my ISP can stop the flood, but they refuse.
>
>Have you seen any options at the web mail site, yet? I
thought a Prodigy SC
>posted that SBCY users were going to get the same options
that Yahoo!
>Premium customers get, but I have seen no sign of AV
options. Two other new
>options, though; an improved SpamGuard and something
called, "AddressGuard",
>which allows for the creation of up to 200 email
addresses, all based on an
>identity different from your Ameritech ID (or my PacBell
ID).
>
>--
>Norman
>~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
>~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
>~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint
>.
>
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