Swamped by Spam

[Bob]

Over the last few days I have received hundreds of e-
mails nearly all with attachments and claiming to be from
Microsoft. The subject is security. I realise they are
not from MS but cannot stop them. They fill my mailbox
and thus stop me receiving genuine e-mail unless I
constantly delete them. I have run McAfee Virus scan and
also checked for Swen using Symantic's free download.

Bob

 

[Cheryl Fischer]

If you have an Internet email account, I sympathize (I have one as well).
The best that I have been able to do is to go through each email and add the
obvious bogus domains like "ms.net", "ms.com", etc., to the Blocked Senders
List. (I also recently gave up and completely blocked aol.com.) For
emails coming from legitimate domains from which I do receive either
personal or business email, I have added the complete address. It has taken
quite a bit of time, but I am getting fewer of these emails.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

You're receiving these emails because your email address is in
the address book of someone infected with a worm, and/or because you
posted your real email address somewhere on-line, either in a forum
accessible to the public and spambots, such as Usenet, or on an
untrustworthy web site that subsequently sold your address as part of
a mailing list. One thing you can do is notify _everyone_ with whom
you've ever corresponded via email that one or more of them may be
infected with a mass emailing worm, and should take the appropriate
steps.

There's probably no way of blocking all of the bogus messages, but
you can greatly reduce the number you get by creating a rule, based
upon the most commonly used subject lines, to delete the emails from
the server without ever downloading them.


Bruce Chambers

--
Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH