VIRUS WARNING

[Todd Miller]

I posted to this group a couple of days ago about the
qhost problem. Soon after, my yahoo account received all
of the replies from "microsoft tech support" They contain
an attachment which contains a virus. If you get one of
these, DO NOT open it. MS does not send attachments by
email. Also, the email address is a giveaway. Hope this
helps someone.

 

[Corinne Rainbow]

NewsGroups : Todd Miller
nous a dit / has told us

I posted to this group a couple of days ago about the
qhost problem. Soon after, my yahoo account received all
of the replies from "microsoft tech support" They contain
an attachment which contains a virus. If you get one of
these, DO NOT open it. MS does not send attachments by
email. Also, the email address is a giveaway. Hope this
helps someone.

it is why we shouldn't use our real email address into the NGs, as the
virus is taking like spammers the address into NGs

 

[Judy Freed]

I don't know if this will help or not. I was being bombarded with these. I
use Outlook for Newsgroups and the day before yesterday I went to the
Newsgroup menu and selected Tools, Accounts, Properties. I put a bogus email
address in the User Information section. Maybe a coincidence, but I have not
been spammed since then.

 

[John Clifford Hole]

Todd,

I seem to have put a stop to the downloading of most of them by setting up an email rule to delete,from the server,any email over 100KB in size.

When you've set up the rule click on it,to highlight it,then click on MOVE UP repeatedly to move it to the top of your list of rules.

Of course this rule will be of no use to you if you normally receive emails of this sort of size that you actually do want.

To set up the rule I did this.

I clicked on TOOLS/MESSAGE RULES/MAIL/NEW.

Then I clicked on the box,in Section 1,next to WHERE THE MESSAGE SIZE IS MORE THAN SIZE to select it.

Then I clicked on the underlined SIZE and typed in 100 and clicked OK.

Then I moved to Section 2 and clicked the box next to DELETE IT FROM THE SERVER,to select that option.

Then I clicked OK then OK,on the next page,to create the rule.

Then I clicked on that rule,to highlight it,then kept on clicking on MOVE UP until that rule was at the top of all my MESSAGE RULES.

Then I clicked on OK again and that was it all done.

John Clifford Hole [MVP] of Enfield Middlesex