I have posted to an MS NG recently which I have not posted to for ages. There were about 50 copies of that virus on that NG. Some people who post there are VERY computer naive and I suspect that about 100+ of them would have thought "oh, a security patch from MS on an MS NG - that MUST be legit". The e-mail addy that is being swamped is the one that I use for UseNet only.
It does not help the fact that I got 300+ of these bloody things when I was in bed - god help me if I get a chance to go away for the weekend. Once my mailbox goes over quota they do not reject mail (nice chaps that they are) but they send me a message and keep receiving mail. They do expect me to do something about it. The prob is that if I try to access my mail to download it then there is not room to copy it to a temp file (on the server) before it is deleted so things get even more screwed up. I tired to edit the .procmailrc file and even after putting it back to the way it was, it no longer filters out the 30% it was doing. I suspect that this is because I am treating the file as an ASCII file when I transfer it and it is from a Unix system and needs to be treated differently - if you know what I mean. Chrissy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracey Maule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list offtopic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 9:05 AM Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: (Fwd) RE: Re: [csforum] Xtra -- arrrghhhh! any chance you have posted to newsgroups lately? When i was getting millions, thats what we decided must have been the culprit. this from surfcontrol: Gibe-F Worm (#32) Gibe-F Worm Welcome to the latest update from Network Risks, a service that alerts you to new viruses, hoaxes and other e-risks. Also Known As: W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED], I-Worm.Swen, Worm.Automat.AHB Date: 9/20/03 Type: Win32 Worm Sub Type: E-mail This mass-mailing worm replicates through e-mail via its own SMTP engine which uses e-mail addresses pulled from infected PCs. Gibe-F tricks recipients into thinking they have received a security patch from Microsoft. The attachment is a randomly-named file that can have one of the following extensions: .exe, .com, .pif, .bat, .scr, .zip Gibe-F also attempts to infect other PCs using the KaZaA peer-to-peer program, IRC chat, and possibly usenet newsgroups. Please be advised that Microsoft never sends files to users within security updates. Microsoft asks users to download files directly from their web site. Any e-mail that "says" it's from Microsoft and contains file update attachments should be deleted from the system at the earliest possible point. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chrissy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list offtopic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 7:09 PM Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: (Fwd) RE: Re: [csforum] Xtra -- arrrghhhh! > I use Xtra but have stopped using them for mail and now use > my own domain hosters. > > Recently I have been getting viruses sent to me - they are about > 150KBytes and I am getting 20 to 100 each hour. > > Is anyone else having (has had) this problem? > > Chrissy. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ross Levis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Multiple recipients of list offtopic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 6:10 PM > Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: (Fwd) RE: Re: [csforum] Xtra -- arrrghhhh! > > > > I doubt the delays have anything to do with Xtra. I don't use Xtra but I'm > > still seeing delays and multiple repeats of the same messages. It must be a > > problem with the mailing list software. > > > > Ross. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Multiple recipients of list offtopic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 5:47 PM > > Subject: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: (Fwd) RE: Re: [csforum] Xtra -- arrrghhhh! > > > > > > > This was posted to another list, but I'm sure Ian would like to hear > > > from DUG types as well if the Xtra delays continue. > > > > > > Hmmm, good motto -- Get Xtra delays with... Xtra! <g> > > > > > > ------- Forwarded message follows ------- > > > Date sent: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:42:18 +1300 > > > Subject: RE: Re: [csforum] Xtra -- arrrghhhh! > > > From: "Ian Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "Canterbury Software Email Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Greetings As an employee of Telecom I've followed these emails with > > > great interest. If anyone experiences delays of more than an hour in > > > sending and receiving an email via Xtra from midday today (Thursday) > > > can you please contact me (via email!). 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