Swen Future

[harvey]

I am still getting 5 to 10 Swen messages per hour. They get stopped by
MailWasher and Avast but they are an annoyance. Does anyone think they will
stop? What is the answer to this curse?

 

[Bill]

Does anyone think they will
stop? What is the answer to this curse?

Eventually and anti-virus. Duh....

 

[ss_spa]

What is the answer to this curse?

Disconnect your computer from the internet.

HTH

tim

 

[Keanu Reeves]

I find crying helps pmsl,and a goold old hug from me mama lol.Only messin im
gettin a load to more nuisance value than anything. ....... Mat

 

[Dany Rosseel]

Hi,

I do not know where i got my solution from (perhaps from this newsgroup..)
but it seems very effective:

Make an email rule to remove all mails from the server that do not contain
your own e-mail address in the 'to' or 'cc' field.

Make also sure that e-mails sent to your own address get still trough (test
it).


It seems that swen is still alive and kicking... but you will not notice it
any more with the above solution.

kind regards,

--

Vriendelijke groeten,

Dany Rosseel

E-mail: (e-mail address removed)

Web Site (home) : http://users.skynet.be/bk296578/Dro/
Web Site (Delphi): http://users.skynet.be/bk296578/Dro/Delphi

 

[David Stites]

Hi,

I do not know where i got my solution from (perhaps from this
newsgroup..) but it seems very effective:

Make an email rule to remove all mails from the server that do not
contain your own e-mail address in the 'to' or 'cc' field.

Make also sure that e-mails sent to your own address get still trough
(test it).


It seems that swen is still alive and kicking... but you will not
notice it any more with the above solution.

kind regards,

I use the above rules on my mailserver plus I reject all emails with
attachments that have extensions of .exe,.com,.dll,.vbs. I don't see any
in my mail box. Also, my logs show that most of the rejections today are
due to the munging I did about a week ago. That seems to mean most of the
Swens coming in today are from new infections.

Some day we will run out of computers to infect. Then it will be time for
a new virus.

BTW, be sure to make rules above the ones to reject to allow any mail
from mailing lists that you use that have your address in the Bcc:
header.

 

[Frans Meijer]

...
BTW, be sure to make rules above the ones to reject to allow any mail
from mailing lists that you use that have your address in the Bcc:
header.

There isn't really any such header in delivered mail, at least, there
shouldn't be. Leaving a Bcc: header would be somewhat against the concept

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

Bitstring <[email protected]>, from the

Some day we will run out of computers to infect. Then it will be time for
a new virus.

How'd you figure that, when the PC industry is still shipping 10s of K
units every =day=, many to new (aka clueless) users.

 

[John Coutts]

I am still getting 5 to 10 Swen messages per hour. They get stopped by
MailWasher and Avast but they are an annoyance. Does anyone think they will
stop? What is the answer to this curse?

***************** REPLY SEPARATER ******************
One could say that the answer lies in educating people to protect themselves.
But just as in the case of STD, there is just no helping some people.

The bulk of the blame for the proliferation of virus and Spam can be laid at
the feet of the simplistic SMTP protocol, and software producers like Microsoft
who add all the bells and whistles to their software and try to hide (they call
it protect) the user from all the complexity underneath. You cannot blame an
inexperienced user for blindly forging ahead, when it is made so easy and they
don't have a clue what is happening in the background.

The answer lies in sound and simple software with limited interoperability, but
that goes completely contrary to the Bill Gates vision and the subsequent code
bloat. Why try to block all the holes in the coral fence to prevent the horse
from getting out, when all you really have to do is close the barn door.