Yahoo mail getting slammed lately w/Microsoft 'security' virii attachments

[Doc]

Probably for a year or more, I've been regularly getting these
"Security patch" attachment e-mails, along with various "unable to
deliver" and other nuisance emails in my Yahoo mail accounts. Since I
use these addresses only sporadically, it didn't create a big
headache. I'd just mass delete the ones that get past the spam blocker
and empty the bulk and trash once a month or so when my box was
getting full.

However, about the last week or 2 my yahoo mail accounts have been
getting inundated, filling up the 4 megs in about an hour. I even went
through about 50 of them in one of my accounts and blocked the domain
names, but to no avail.

Why is there such a flood all of a sudden? Can anything be done about
this?

Thanks!

 

[Bill]

Why is there such a flood all of a sudden? Can anything be done about
this?

If you would bother to READ before you post you would already have you
answer. However, the answer is W32/Swen.

 

[Jim Lee Jr.]

Probably for a year or more, I've been regularly getting these
"Security patch" attachment e-mails, along with various "unable to
deliver" and other nuisance emails in my Yahoo mail accounts. Since I
use these addresses only sporadically, it didn't create a big
headache. I'd just mass delete the ones that get past the spam blocker
and empty the bulk and trash once a month or so when my box was
getting full.

However, about the last week or 2 my yahoo mail accounts have been
getting inundated, filling up the 4 megs in about an hour. I even went
through about 50 of them in one of my accounts and blocked the domain
names, but to no avail.

Why is there such a flood all of a sudden? Can anything be done about
this?

Thanks!

I can sum it up in one word: Windoze.

 

[Steve Wanasek]

I have a Yahoo mail account and a SBCGlobal mail account, both with my name
and correct mail address. I have received over 100 virus attempts with
SBCGlobal and none through Yahoo.
With all the resources and talent that Microsoft has is there a reason they
cannot track the senders address to the perpetrators?
Steve

 

[MkIII]

You're missing the point - the sender could be you....
....or me...
Anyone who has been unwise enough to run one of the attachments... and
judging by the 1000s of virus riddled swen's i'm getting, there are a fair
number of people who have done just that.

 

[V W Wall]

I can sum it up in one word: Windoze.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, (Jim),
Than are drempt of in your philosophy.

Wm. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Sc. 5

Virg Wall

 

[Steve Wanasek]

Is it possible for me to send myself a message with another persons address
in the header?
Steve

 

[Jim Lee Jr.]

I have a Yahoo mail account and a SBC Global mail account, both with my name
and correct mail address. I have received over 100 virus attempts with
SBC Global and none through Yahoo.

With all the resources and talent that Microsoft has is there a reason they
cannot track the senders address to the perpetrators?

Steve

It starts with the two big kahunas, Gates and Ballmer. They should be
clamping down big time and demand a better OS and improvements in the
current ones.

 

[Jim Lee Jr.]

You're missing the point - the sender could be you....
...or me...
Anyone who has been unwise enough to run one of the attachments... and
judging by the 1000s of virus riddled swen's i'm getting, there are a fair
number of people who have done just that.

Mamzers who are dumb enough to open attachments.

 

[Jim Lee Jr.]

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, (Jim),
Than are drempt of in your philosophy.

Wm. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Sc. 5

Virg Wall

That should be "dreamt," not "drempt."

 

[V W Wall]

That should be "dreamt," not "drempt."

As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

Bedtime, little boy!

Virg Wall

 

[Jim Lee Jr.]

As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

Bedtime, little boy!

Virg Wall

You want me to tuck you in?

 

[D McAuliffe]

Is it possible for me to send myself a message with another persons address
in the header?

Yes, it's called spoofing.
--

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dave McAuliffe
<Central Mass> USA
Remove X from address
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Gabriele Neukam]

On that special day, Steve Wanasek, ([email protected]) said...

Is it possible for me to send myself a message with another persons address
in the header?

It is, provided your ISP doesn't replace it with the correct one (as
mine does, as long as you don't rent a special mailing service).


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)

 

[FromTheRafters]

It starts with the two big kahunas, Gates and Ballmer. They should be
clamping down big time and demand a better OS and improvements in the
current ones.

If they would only make their software harder to configure, it
would force the userbase into three digit intelligence quotients.

It is not their fault that idiots want to play too...

 

[YoKenny]

If they would only make their software harder to configure, it
would force the userbase into three digit intelligence quotients.

It is not their fault that idiots want to play too...

Where would all the AOL users and employees go? What about WebTV users?
I guess the Government could set up a new network called "Idiots R Us" as a
communication vehicle for the "technology challenged?" Moore must be
turning in his grave to see that this technology is availed to them.
http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/mooreslaw.htm

 

[Jan Il]

I guess the Government could set up a new network called "Idiots R Us" as a
communication vehicle for the "technology challenged?"

Hmm....but, I thought they already had....only they called it C.I.A.? Huh!!
Shows it don't pay to read F.B.I. website after all.

Jan

 

[FromTheRafters]

I guess the Government could set up a new network called "Idiots R Us" as a
communication vehicle for the "technology challenged?"

That idea may not be as far-fetched as you think it is.

Moore must be
turning in his grave to see that this technology is availed to them.

The internet.....where Moores law meets the peter principle.

 

[Jim Lee Jr.]

Where would all the AOL users and employees go? What about WebTV users?
I guess the Government could set up a new network called "Idiots R Us" as a
communication vehicle for the "technology challenged?"

Add Windoze users to that list as well.

 

[YoKenny]

That idea may not be as far-fetched as you think it is.


The internet.....where Moores law meets the peter principle.

Maybe viruses/worms are the Red Queen?
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/REDQUEEN.html