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cazm 
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Posted: 03 October 2003 at 6:55am |
Hi all, I joined this forum hoping someone can help me........im being blasted by this Swen worm, thru email. My Norton stops it, and Ive started using Mailwasher just to stop them even getting as far as Norton. This has been going on for about 3 weeks now, averaging 80 worm emails per day and its driving me nuts. I'm not a heavy email user and have very few people on my address list, I dont know why my mailbox is being targeted. Does anyone have any idea how to stop me being a target? Do I just have to 'ride' it out and hope they stop one day? The emails im talking about are various...some are the fake Microsoft 'patches', and some are the 'failed to deliver message' type ones, all with nonsense addresses on them. I have asked my ISP if they can somehow block them but because they are from numerous random addresses, i think its impossible for them. The Mailwasher app i use bounces them back, but as i said, they are from random addresses and are still coming thick and fast. Norton scan revealed no infected files on my pc, but i knew that anyway. Anyway, in desperation, i hope someone here knows how i can solve this.
Thanks for reading this.....cheers 
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Posted: 03 October 2003 at 7:04am |
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I get around 30 to 40 emails containing viruses a day, during big virus
outbreaks like the SoBig virus about a month ago I was getting over 50
emails every 15 minutes containing viruses.
Viruses usuuly spread by emailing themselfs to eveyone in the address
book of the system they have infected using random email addresses as
the return address so that it is difficult to track down the infected
machine and tell them to run a virus checker.
It maybe worth emailing all your friends in your addres book and ask
them all to run an up-to-date virus scanner or their computer to make
sure it's none of them bombarding you with these viruses.
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cazm
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Posted: 03 October 2003 at 7:09am |
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ok borg, ill do that, thanks. Is that definitely how I am getting them? Is it definitely from someone in my address book? I didnt think thats how it worked, but I'm not sure about all this stuff. Thanks anyway, i'll let u know what happens.
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Posted: 03 October 2003 at 9:10am |
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No, not your address book.
They will be coming from someone you have emailed in the past or have emailed you, so you are in their address book.
So the best bet is that hopefully that person will also be in your
address book so it's worth a try emailing everyone in your address book.
Otherwise just wait it out and hope that the person will eventually
will relise that a virus scanner is a good idea.
Edited by -boRg-
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Posted: 03 October 2003 at 9:35am |
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Posted: 03 October 2003 at 7:36pm |
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Also if you got an email form (html or asp) on your website with your email address viewable on the html source or if you've posted your email on a forum or something like that when a user views that page it's saved on their temp folder and the worm also scans those files for email addresses and sends itself to them...
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cazm
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Posted: 07 October 2003 at 3:09pm |
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Hi, me again, still getting blasted, went away for 24 hours and came home to 165 worm emails grrrrrrrrrrr. I emailed my ISP asking if they can do anything, they replied saying I'm to do nothing, they will block the worm/virus emails from their end. ???? What does this mean? Are they going to read all my emails (if possible) to determine which ones i want and which ones i dont???? Can ISP's do that? Read your emails? or do they just scan them as they come thru their mail server? Cheers.
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Posted: 07 October 2003 at 11:27pm |
i had been checking the swen attachment name carefully since a couple of week and putting the names in the SMTP filer of ISA to block any emails entering the network from the internet which contains an email with that attachment name.. glad that swen attachments r rarely now seen in my pop3 email as they all get discarded at the proxy 
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