On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:29:09 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

Now, while I'm on - anyone else getting about a hundred virus attacks a day
or is it just me?

I think I'm up to 3 or 4 hundred, judging by the number of screenfuls
I'm deleting!
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:29:09 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

Now, while I'm on - anyone else getting about a hundred virus attacks a
day
or is it just me?

I think I'm up to 3 or 4 hundred, judging by the number of screenfuls
I'm deleting!


Ditto, looks like ukra are the chosen ones :-(
Mike

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:29:09 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

Now, while I'm on - anyone else getting about a hundred virus attacks a
day
or is it just me?

I think I'm up to 3 or 4 hundred, judging by the number of screenfuls
I'm deleting!


Ditto, looks like ukra are the chosen ones :-(
Mike

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
...
In article , Dave Plowman
wrote:
In article , Glenn Booth
wrote:
Now, while I'm on - anyone else getting about a hundred virus attacks
a day or is it just me?

Two boxes here filled their inboxes with over 200 spam messages
overnight, mostly munged to appear as though they came from Microsoft.
Somebody who has me in their address box has a nasty case of e-pox,
methinks.

Several email SPs - including mine - have died under the weight. I had
over 500 yesterday, and had to use webmail to delete them and read my
other stuff. Can't send any, though.

I am now getting around 200-300 of them per day at home, and until
recently
about the same at work.

Dave: as you (like myself) are using RO, I'd recommend MailScout or even
AntiSpam. This means I can delete the rubbish from demon's servers before
downloading, without needing to use webmail. I use MailScout at home (the
address this posting is from) and AntiSpam at work. (The reason being my
uni have an effective system for detecting spam/viruscarriers and tag the
headers with a warning I can then use to auto-delete them.)


According to a mate at work, it's not PC address book based, but comes
from harvesting all the data off newsgroup headers, and has the purpose
of finding genuine addresses.

There appears to be something in this as the few I spoke to today who
never contribute to newsgroups haven't been effected.

I never contribute to newsgroups from my 'work' address, but that seems to
have been getting loads of spams, etc. However I have not checked to see
if
these have recently included all the bogus 'MS' ones I've been getting at
home.

Slainte,

Jim


No spam really on any of my BT or university a/cs. 60 'caught' by Cloudmark
in the last 4 months, and 14 sitting in BTs web spam trap over the last 14
days. I feel left out!

Rob

"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
...
In article , Dave Plowman
wrote:
In article , Glenn Booth
wrote:
Now, while I'm on - anyone else getting about a hundred virus attacks
a day or is it just me?

Two boxes here filled their inboxes with over 200 spam messages
overnight, mostly munged to appear as though they came from Microsoft.
Somebody who has me in their address box has a nasty case of e-pox,
methinks.

Several email SPs - including mine - have died under the weight. I had
over 500 yesterday, and had to use webmail to delete them and read my
other stuff. Can't send any, though.

I am now getting around 200-300 of them per day at home, and until
recently
about the same at work.

Dave: as you (like myself) are using RO, I'd recommend MailScout or even
AntiSpam. This means I can delete the rubbish from demon's servers before
downloading, without needing to use webmail. I use MailScout at home (the
address this posting is from) and AntiSpam at work. (The reason being my
uni have an effective system for detecting spam/viruscarriers and tag the
headers with a warning I can then use to auto-delete them.)


According to a mate at work, it's not PC address book based, but comes
from harvesting all the data off newsgroup headers, and has the purpose
of finding genuine addresses.

There appears to be something in this as the few I spoke to today who
never contribute to newsgroups haven't been effected.

I never contribute to newsgroups from my 'work' address, but that seems to
have been getting loads of spams, etc. However I have not checked to see
if
these have recently included all the bogus 'MS' ones I've been getting at
home.

Slainte,

Jim


No spam really on any of my BT or university a/cs. 60 'caught' by Cloudmark
in the last 4 months, and 14 sitting in BTs web spam trap over the last 14
days. I feel left out!

Rob

In article ,
Jim Lesurf wrote:
I am now getting around 200-300 of them per day at home, and until recently
about the same at work.

Dave: as you (like myself) are using RO, I'd recommend MailScout or even
AntiSpam. This means I can delete the rubbish from demon's servers before
downloading, without needing to use webmail. I use MailScout at home (the
address this posting is from) and AntiSpam at work. (The reason being my
uni have an effective system for detecting spam/viruscarriers and tag the
headers with a warning I can then use to auto-delete them.)

Thanks Jim, but I've been using Antispam since it came out, and very good
it is too. But the problem I and others have been having is that I can't
access my mailbox - I get an error message saying no space. And the same
with webmail. The only answer has been to use webmail and do a search for
MS etc which does show them which you can then delete. After doing this
you get access in the normal way, but yesterday it still wasn't possible
to send mail.

--
*Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?

Dave Plowman London SW 12
RIP Acorn

In article ,
Jim Lesurf wrote:
I am now getting around 200-300 of them per day at home, and until recently
about the same at work.

Dave: as you (like myself) are using RO, I'd recommend MailScout or even
AntiSpam. This means I can delete the rubbish from demon's servers before
downloading, without needing to use webmail. I use MailScout at home (the
address this posting is from) and AntiSpam at work. (The reason being my
uni have an effective system for detecting spam/viruscarriers and tag the
headers with a warning I can then use to auto-delete them.)

Thanks Jim, but I've been using Antispam since it came out, and very good
it is too. But the problem I and others have been having is that I can't
access my mailbox - I get an error message saying no space. And the same
with webmail. The only answer has been to use webmail and do a search for
MS etc which does show them which you can then delete. After doing this
you get access in the normal way, but yesterday it still wasn't possible
to send mail.

--
*Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?

Dave Plowman London SW 12
RIP Acorn