emails

[liz]

I realize that all emails from MS regarding any updates
are potential viruses and have continued to delete them.
However, I continue to get up to 5 per day! Most are
regarding the security patch, but I also get undeliverable
mail from 'administrator' etc. My updates have been done
automatically and my anti virus is up to date. Is there
anyway, without using a firewall, to stop these annoying
emails?? Thanks Liz

 

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

Basically no, what is happening is that after you have the virus, it does a
mass email. Over time those will diminish to the point that you dont get
them anymore but distant email servers might send you mail as they are
receiving the infected mail.

 

[Ken Blake]

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I realize that all emails from MS regarding any updates
are potential viruses and have continued to delete them.
However, I continue to get up to 5 per day! Most are
regarding the security patch, but I also get undeliverable
mail from 'administrator' etc. My updates have been done
automatically and my anti virus is up to date. Is there
anyway, without using a firewall, to stop these annoying
emails??

First of all, note that using a firewall will not help at all.
Nevertheless, for other security reasons, you definitely *should*
enable a firewall.

You get mail like this for two resons: your E-mail address is in
the address books of other infected people, and you post to
newsgroups using your real E-mail address, where it can be
harvested for such purposes.

You can and should stop using your real address in newsgroups,
but that won't stop the flood of such mail. If you're getting
five a day, consider yourself lucky; there are some people
getting over a thousand a day.

You can't stop someone who knows your address (whether E-mail or
postal) from sending you mail. There's nothing you can do to stop
this, short of changing your E-mail address or switching to an
ISP that deletes these for you. You can however use appropriate
filters to automatically delete these in your E-mail program so
you at least don't have to see them.