Bombarded with viruses after posting

[JT]

I posted yesterday, and apparently made the newbie
mistake of leaving my email address. Now I'm being
bombarded with virus-laden emails almost hourly. None
have gotten past Norton, but this is a serious pain in
the *ss.

Is there any way to somehow block these emails? Do
people have anything better to do with their lives?

This is pathetic.

Thanks for any help offered.

 

[Ian & Lorraine]

I posted yesterday, and apparently made the newbie
mistake of leaving my email address. Now I'm being
bombarded with virus-laden emails almost hourly. None
have gotten past Norton, but this is a serious pain in
the *ss.

Is there any way to somehow block these emails? Do
people have anything better to do with their lives?

This is pathetic.

Thanks for any help offered.

I've been using MailWasher http://www.mailwasher.net/ to delete these virus
"patch" emails, along with other spam, from the server before they are even
downloaded to my system. One thing I noticed in your previous post is that
your msn.com email address is really short- only two letters. You'll
probably receive a lot of spam sent to randomly-generated addresses as a
result. I know I do at our home address, which has only four letters.

Regards,
Ian.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

What you received is either a very common malicious hoax or the
output of a computer infected by one of several wide-spread, mass
emailing worms. The most widely-known are:

W32.Swen.A_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

W32.Dumaru_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

W32.Gibe_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

Microsoft never has, does not currently, and never will email
unsolicited security patches. At the most, if, and only if, you
subscribe to their security notification newsletter, they will send
you an email informing you that a new patch is available for
downloading.

Microsoft Policies on Software Distribution
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/policy/swdist.asp

Information on Bogus Microsoft Security Bulletin Emails
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/news/patch_hoax.asp

How to Tell If a Microsoft Security-Related Message Is Genuine
http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/authenticate_mail.asp

Any and all legitimate patches and updates are readily available
at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. (Notice that this is the true
URL, rather than the bogus one that may have been contained in the
email you received.) Any messages that point to any other source(s) or
claim to have the patch attached are bogus.

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

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