[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2003 08:19, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote: >> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1275872,00.asp >> >> if closed source is so much better for security, why is my virus >> detector still yelping every few minutes as the latest Windows virus, >> Swen, tries to e-mail it way in...? > > Those affected most are dial-up users. Swen has made my life > miserable in the last 3 days or so - been receiving close to one mail > note per minute in my inbox. I've had to resort to a web based > interface to access my inbox, check all messages and simply delete. > Got 440 messages this afternoon. Any better solution to tackle this? > > PS: Using Kmail 1.5.2 client.
Well, if you don't want your Inbox riddled with all sorts of Swen-based e-mail, perhaps you can configure your e-mail gateway to drop/strip any e-mail containing Swen viruses, using anti-virus software of course. If the software supports notifications, you can use mail filters to receive those notifications in another folder on your Kmail, so you know where not to go. Alternatively, you could disable notifications altogether, and never get Swen in your Inbox anymore. It's just basically a procedure thing. Regards, Mark Tinka - CCNP Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
