Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:12:32 +0200 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Bounces from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"?
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:08:34 -0700, Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:01:16 -0700 >From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Bounces from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? > >Is anyone getting flooded with a pile of "Delivery Status Notification >(Failure) messages from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" referring to list >messages that were sent to the Libretto list around the beginning of this year? >I'm getting recent bounce messages from mountainservice.com (the bounces are >dated Friday 10th of October) to messages I sent months ago (and which made it >to the list)! I cannot remember if I get any from that adress, but there is a virus going round which seems to propagate by using any adress and subject line made from either your outbox or someone else's. Just set up a spamfilter, like SpamWasher it is free for personal use, and then you can make some definitions to catch most of them. There is also plenty of messages claiming to be updates, but which are really virusses, and these survive and propagate only because a few people do not stop to think twice before they open their mailbox, or in some cases are ignorant about the issue to start with. If you are not expecting an email from someone, read the subject line again, if possible look at the receiver, are you the only receiver? If not for you or specifically for you, or you do not know the persons sending to you, do not open it. Also if there is an attachment, do not activate it. I have 2 filters for 9 conditions each that will filter out emails with attachments supposedly from Microsoft, they have a range of names and subjectlines which necessitates several filters. common subject are Email User, Netclient, MS Network, and so on. My filters take car for 95% of those emails. I only have to worry about the usual spam. I get 10-50 mails for mailinglists every day, and they are automatically moved into respective folder using filters within my email program (Agent). What is left is 1-2 private emails and 1-10 spammessages. The virus emails ytypically are betwen 140kb and 180kb so each time I snipe one of them using SpamWasher, on the mailserver before donloading my email, I stand to shrtoen the time I am online on dial-up which I am half the week. I do not want to download 3-5 mb worth of spam twice a day too. That would take 1 minute 15 seconds per megabyte. I handle my emails offline to save on dial up cost. But if you do not pay per minute you have less of a burden. Microsoft do not send you anything unless you asked for it. With their swiss cheese operating system I doubt they would spend money trying to spread updates all over the net. And would you really trust MS to actually _fix_ the hole they made in your security? -breiler ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
