Re: How Do I Stop Swen Emails?

From: Tedd Riggs (T_Riggs_at_msn.cöm)
Date: 03/07/04 

Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 04:22:11 -0800

Sounds good to me, but according to the Anti-Virus and Spam blocker
companies, 80% of the IP address's are forged and will not help you out.
Some of them are not if the spammer is a amateur, but not so many of those
around anymore.
The SamSpade link you gave of course is a great tool. I use that one all the
time. 

-- 
Tedd Riggs
PDA Square Content Developer
www.pdasquare.com
Redmond,   WA
"Veronica Loell" <lista@nakawe.se> wrote in message 
news:%23XNhV6BBEHA.580@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Dan wrote / skrev:
>
>> I posted to usenet(using a munged email) and the bugger sniffed out my 
>> real
>> email and started sending me emails with W32.Swen.A@MM. I used the email
>> danplace23@itwassobadsoihadtokillit.com and the thing sniffed out my real
>> email.
>>
>> Any help on how to get stop these emails from coming in?
>>
>> Bye, Dan
>>
>>
>
> I keep posting with unmunged address here and I only get about 25 of
> them per day, so not that bad. The one thing you can do is report them
> to the originating IP-address owners. Here's what you do:
>
> How to report Virus-SPAM
>
> 1. Go to
> http://spam.abuse.net/userhelp/howtocomplain.shtml
> for help on locating the originating IP-adress
> 2a. Go to
> http://www.abuse.net/lookup.phtml
> for looking up the abuse-adress.
> 2b. An alternative to 2a. is to get the tool SamSpade
> (http://www.samspade.org) and use it to do abuse.net lookups and
> whois-lookups if there is no abuse.net-adress. There are of course many
> such tools,
> SamSpade is just one free tool that I happen to use.
>
> Remember to
> - 1. always include full headers (like you normally
> would with spam-report)
> - 2. always include a link to information about
> the virus in question with your complaint/information-letter
> - 3. never include the virus itself
>
> Not every ISP or company will take it seriously, but some actually do.
> If you spend a little time reporting just a couple you will probably
> help cure at least one computer somewhere.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
>

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