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Virus emails blasting my inbox

August 19, 2003 2:13:29 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums

I have tons of emails with virus I am getting, just today I've got around 500 of them, and the end of the day is not near, it's only 5PM, Norton warns me the virus has been deleted and I have to click finished button everytime, this is a pain in the ....

If someone know how to get rid of them without clicking on "finished" everytime please help me.

 

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Alexandrie
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Reply #1 August 19, 2003 2:42:04 PM
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Spam guard. 500 emails of virus email. Wowee!
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Reply #2 August 19, 2003 2:54:46 PM
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Cant you just delete them without sacanning them.I get viruses sent to me all the time but I delete them without opening them and evrything is fine.If I do open one AVG gets them everytime.And its free.
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Reply #3 August 19, 2003 2:58:58 PM
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Alexndrie, SpamKiller 4 by mcafee works well for me, never even know there where sent because it deletes in the back ground, also you can configure NAV to auto delete without confirmation.



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Alexandrie
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Reply #4 August 19, 2003 3:01:42 PM
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Ohh 500 virus ridden emails??? That's horrible!!

I would use an anti-spam program (there lots out there but I use AntiSpamWare) to screen your emails before downloding. This safes me a lot of time every day.

I think you can tell Norton Antivirus to either fix or delete the virus in emails silently (without any notification) and you should be able to find this feature in the options menue.
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Reply #5 August 19, 2003 3:04:48 PM
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Xerraire at MXskinz gets almost as many per day, I am with Alexandrie, its a PAIN...Alexandrie, you might be able to configure your nortons to do what IRBrainiac mentioned.

I hope that helps you.

Barb



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Reply #6 August 19, 2003 3:12:30 PM
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I got 184 e-mails today with viruses and still comming!

Just tell Norton to "repair and then silently delete if unsuccessful" Alexandrie, I was having the same problem, but not any more.
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Reply #7 August 19, 2003 3:20:45 PM
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Adni you save my day!! thank you so much!!

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Reply #8 August 19, 2003 3:44:24 PM
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I started a thread about this earlier today. If only people were a little more careful and would keep their virus checkers up-to-date, we wouldn't have problems like these.

I'm still sitting deleting mails because of someone else's stupidity. I'm just lucky to have access to my account through web-based mail so I don't have to download all these mails before they get checked.
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Reply #9 August 19, 2003 4:10:16 PM
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I've posted a news story with links for removal of the virus, which I want everyone (no exceptions!) to read and act on immediately. Read it here: https://www.wincustomize.com/newsBoard.asp?ID=1876
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Reply #10 August 19, 2003 5:10:52 PM
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#4 by aufisch - 8/19/2003 3:01:42 PM
Ohh 500 virus ridden emails??? That's horrible!!

Think that's bad?  Stardock support is getting one every 3 to 5 seconds.  Norton runs in the background and a filter on the email takes care of most of the rest of them.  Bogs down the machine though  

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Reply #11 August 19, 2003 5:13:47 PM
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hehe getting 100 per hours since this morning
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Reply #12 August 19, 2003 5:17:16 PM
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It all just bites.  I got hit on my work machine with all updates applied, Norton running and behind a firewall.  Luckily, it's easy to get rid of.  Hit two of us at the office at once causing a spontaneous reboot.  Real pain.

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Reply #13 August 19, 2003 5:58:06 PM
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Got a bunch of them today, also. At my Yahoo mail address, no less. Although that is good cause they are never on my machine since I delete them off Yahoo's server without ever downloading.

A useful little utility I use is eprompter. It will check most web mail and just about any ISP based mail for you. It can be set to only get the headers so you can decide if you want to read the messages or not. You can then delete unwanted mail from your mail server from eprompter. It's easy, convenient, and free.
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Reply #14 August 19, 2003 6:11:29 PM
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These are gonna clog up everyone's mail accounts too. You'll have to go to the web client for your email (if you have emails saved after download as a lot of people have to do) and delete them a page at a time from the account space.

My mailbox space is ten Mb and it got filled today after a few hundred viruses plus a few  hundred spams because I had received a couple attachments as well.

I echo everyone's feeling... what a pain!

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Reply #15 August 19, 2003 7:17:40 PM
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sheesh I feel left out



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Reply #16 August 19, 2003 7:52:28 PM
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Gads this thing is mailbombing people. Whoa!



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Reply #17 August 19, 2003 8:03:11 PM
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now I really feel left out



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Reply #18 August 19, 2003 8:52:10 PM
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IPlural, If you really left out, I can send you a few e-mails, laced with a touch of virii


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Reply #19 August 19, 2003 8:57:22 PM
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but my computer won't accept em, seem to have this rascal wrapped



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Reply #20 August 20, 2003 4:54:30 AM
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I'm getting 1 every 25 seconds

It sucks, it filled up my 30MB POP3 inbox in a matter of hours overnight.
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Reply #21 August 20, 2003 5:15:02 AM
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I've gotten 220 this a.m. To those that have initiated the viruses I say, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" and thus, may you receive a hundred fold return. Amen.



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Reply #22 August 20, 2003 5:35:36 AM
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sheesh...

Verizon DSL here, NIS 2003 Pro with NAV, filtering emails, instant messaging programs, web mail and active script protection enabled, intrusion protection enabled and Mcafee SpamKiller 4 and not one....






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Reply #23 August 20, 2003 2:39:29 PM
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My HoverDesk account received over 2,500 of them !!! >
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Reply #24 August 20, 2003 2:45:34 PM
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There's a setting in some e-mail clients to reject any messages whose origin is not in your address book.... if you have it, engage it



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Reply #25 August 20, 2003 8:04:37 PM
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chuckle - I work for a mortgage company - one of the big vendor's rate sheets had this thing. They sent it to ALL their customers - most of whom proceeded to start spouting emails. We had 1230 when i went in this morning - had around 2500 when I left

If you use outlook - just set a rule to delete or move messages with these phrases in the subject - there are a few more, but those should cover 80-90% of the ones caused by SoBig.F (which is the bear I hadda deal with today).

Re: Details
Re: Approved
Re: Re: My details
Re: Thank you!
Re: That movie
Re: Wicked screensaver
Re: Your application
Thank you!
Your details






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