This is ridiculous

Use Spamnet...spamnet.com..works by scanning message headers and is
effective...you highlight offending messages and click Block..messages from
that sender get sent to the folder of your choosing...like Deleted! also
uses the collective prior blocks of all users to mark messages as
Spam...your blocks are added to other users block lists

Rich Lanzarone
"Milhouse Van Houten" wrote in message
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"sli" wrote in message
...

Well, I'm not "advertising". I mentioned a free service which is a very
clever way to receive email one time, such as for confirmations, without
the
risk of being spammed as you might if you used a real email address.
And
there are no others that use the same method as the one I "advertised",
with
no signup, no information given, just make up an email address on the
spot.

That service and ones like it are useful, but sometimes it's also
appropriate to have a permanent, public address.

I think what's dictating whether someone with a permanent address is being
nailed by this latest worm is whether that person's ISP or email provider
is
on the ball or not. For example, the Hotmail people headed this one off at
the pass it seems, while another mail provider I have is obviously asleep
in
the control room. If they'd just configure their gateway to dump these in
the bit bucket, users on that service would never see them.

"Chris" wrote:
I have received over 135 bogus emails and virus threats today. I started
Outlook about fifteen minutes ago and it is still pulling in mail
(present count is 52 and still going) on this bogus Microsoft thing.


My brother had the same thing happen. He posted messages to a newsgroup and
did not use an alias. The spam robots are working overtime to gather up
suckers to install the bogus Microsoft patches.

--
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"Lorne Smith" wrote:
Indeed.... I've got my shotgun all ready and loaded with #5 shot

"Chris Lanier" wrote in message
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Not a whole lot you can do. if you would like to hunt down the guy who
started this we will all support we.

"Chris" wrote in message
...
I have received over 135 bogus emails and virus threats today. I
started
Outlook about fifteen minutes ago and it is still pulling in mail
(present
count is 52 and still going) on this bogus Microsoft thing.






My friend has had the same thing happen!



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Sorry, does not work in Outlook. Which is why most of us use a phony or
discard address to post answers to news groups.

(yes, this is one of those addresses)


--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Nicholas asked:

| Open Outlook Express and from the Toolbar select:
| Help Contents and Rules, type RULES in the find box,
| click on LIST TOPICS, then click on "Create a rule for
| mail messages".
|
| You need to create a message rule that includes an "action"
| to "delete it from the server".
|
| Creating Message Rules in Outlook Express
| http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tips/rules.htm
|
|
| --
| Nicholas
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|
| "Chris" wrote in message:
| ...
|
|| I have received over 135 bogus emails and virus threats today. I
|| started
|| Outlook about fifteen minutes ago and it is still pulling in mail
|| (present
|| count is 52 and still going) on this bogus Microsoft thing.

For Microsoft Office Outlook users;

Go to your webbased mailclient of your ISP. If you have a good provider it
will let you set mailrules here. Set the rule to delete or move to another
folder to prevent it from downloading into your Outlook.

Hope this helps!

--
Roady
www.sparnaaij.net (gave it a remake)
News, FAQ, How To's for Outlook and more...

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"Nicholas" wrote in message
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Open Outlook Express and from the Toolbar select:
Help Contents and Rules, type RULES in the find box,
click on LIST TOPICS, then click on "Create a rule for
mail messages".

You need to create a message rule that includes an "action"
to "delete it from the server".

Creating Message Rules in Outlook Express
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tips/rules.htm


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Nicholas

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"Chris" wrote in message:
...

| I have received over 135 bogus emails and virus threats today. I started
| Outlook about fifteen minutes ago and it is still pulling in mail (present
| count is 52 and still going) on this bogus Microsoft thing.
|
|

I want the old rule back which is the option to leave it on the server.
After four days it bounces back to the moron that's infected.
I want revenge.
Bernie

"Milhouse Van Houten" wrote in message
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"Nicholas" wrote in message
...

You need to create a message rule that includes an "action"
to "delete it from the server".

Good idea, but in this case there's way too much variety.

Bernie wrote:
I want the old rule back which is the option to leave it on the
server. After four days it bounces back to the moron that's infected.
I want revenge.
Bernie

"Milhouse Van Houten" wrote in message
...
"Nicholas" wrote in message
...

You need to create a message rule that includes an "action"
to "delete it from the server".

Good idea, but in this case there's way too much variety.

There's always an attachment.

Bernie wrote:
I want the old rule back which is the option to leave it on the server.
After four days it bounces back to the moron that's infected.
I want revenge.
Bernie

That's useless because the sender address is most of the time faked.
If you do so, you're just having your revenge on innocent people.

I believe this one is propagating through address books & stored email
addresses on infected HD's. Throw away accounts, such as the one you
advertised, will not prevent the receipt of spam and/or viruses.

In fact, it is the thorw-away addresses that will never get this one
because, as you say, it is using address books on infected computers and
those will always contain good addresses, with few exceptions.
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:31:46 -0400, Brian Tillman wrote:

I believe this one is propagating through address books & stored email
addresses on infected HD's. Throw away accounts, such as the one you
advertised, will not prevent the receipt of spam and/or viruses.

In fact, it is the thorw-away addresses that will never get this one
because, as you say, it is using address books on infected computers and
those will always contain good addresses, with few exceptions.

Swen will cull email addresses from newsgroups and web pages as well as
address books!

Taken from the following article:


"Searches .html, .asp, .eml, .dbx, .wab, .mbx files on the hard disk for
email addresses"

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP - Windows XP Shell/User

"Chris" wrote:
I have received over 135 bogus emails and virus
threats today. I started Outlook about fifteen
minutes ago and it is still pulling in mail (present
count is 52 and still going) on this bogus
Microsoft thing.


Note first that Microsoft does not send out these types of messages unless
you very specifically request it. Instead, the vast majority of these
messages are attempts to install virus-type programs on your computer.
Therefore, your best bet is to delete these messages without delay (don't
open them or attempt to install them).

If you want to prevent these messages from downloading (large messages
take time to download), set Outlook to not download messages over a certain
size. Somewhere around 25K is a good size, since this will allow most
messages without attachments to download, but will stop most messages with
attachments. At this point, Outlook will download the message header without
the rest of the message, allowing you to see who the message is from. If you
don't want the message, simply delete it (highlight and hit X button). For
messages you want to download, right-click and select download from server.
When you're finished, hit the "send/receive" button again and Outlook will
delete the messages you don't want off the server and fully download the
messages you want. Read help menu about setting maximum download size (it's
an account option, not a filter).


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/

"Dwight Stewart" wrote:

If you want to prevent these messages from downloading (large messages
take time to download), set Outlook to not download messages over a
certain
size. (snip)


Several people have already asked me how to do this. You can find this
setting in...

Options...
Mail Setup...
Send/Receive Button
Select All Accounts and then press Edit Button.
Download only item description for items larger...

Somewhere around 25K is a good size, since this will allow most messages
without attachments to download, but will stop most messages with
attachments. At this point, Outlook will download only the message header of
large messages, allowing you to see who the message is from. If you don't
want the message, simply delete it (select message and hit X button). For
messages you want to download, right-click and select download from server.
When you're finished, hit the "send/receive" button again and Outlook will
delete the messages you don't want off the server while fully downloading
the messages you do want.

I use this method exactly to avoid those nasty messages claiming to be
Microsoft updates and fixes (works every time). If this also works for you,
please help spread this advice around to help others.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/