I have the same problem too (getting all those virus warnings)
It HAS to be this mailing list. You’ll know why if u google for my email address. You’ll hit just my one mail to this list! (Maybe two now)
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If you do a google for your email address you will see that
it generates four
entries:
I have the same problem too (getting all those virus warnings)
It HAS to be this mailing list. You’ll know why if u google for my email address. You’ll hit just my one mail to this list! (Maybe two now)
So anyone who has that page in their cache is potentially a vector, as
well as any subscribers to the mailing list or readers of the news
gateway. (And news has a remarkably large distribution)
Not much for it, and you sort of get used to it after a while
The 'proud' owner of 110K+ sobig copies,
Dan
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Gavri Savio Fernandez wrote:
If you do a google for your email address you will see that
it generates four
entries:
I have the same problem too (getting all those virus warnings) It HAS
to be this mailing list. You’ll know why if u google for my email
address. You’ll hit just my one mail to this list! (Maybe two now)
I just wanted to add that the 4 hits you found on google are there for
quite some time already and this is the first email worm that manages to
reach me. And seeing the nature of the hits, there is really very little
chance anyone might have picked up my email address only recently. Also
the ruby mailing list is the only mailing list I’ve ever posted to, and
that’s the only thing that has changed concerning visibility of my e-mail
address, I’m pretty sure it’s because of the mailing list. But, as you
said, my mails also appear in the newsgroup, but my mail about the viruses
appeared there too, so I’m really not attacking any of the active members
of this mailinglist.
So anyone who has that page in their cache is potentially a vector, as
well as any subscribers to the mailing list or readers of the news
gateway. (And news has a remarkably large distribution)
Not much for it, and you sort of get used to it after a while
Well, I wasn’t used to getting about 81 overnight… Anyway, I apologize
for my original email since apparently the worm also looks for email
addresses on newsservers, so anyone who has the address of a newsgroup
stored on his pc is potentially a vector. This was not mentioned on the
mcafee page, if I knew that I wouldn’t have sent that email… I still
figure my recent posts caused the problems, but I guess none of you can
help that
Sorry, such a sudden s***load of viruses made me panic… Not for getting
infected (linux box), but for going down that same road as everyone. Been
pretty spam and virus free before, at least on this email address.
Well, I wasn’t used to getting about 81 overnight… Anyway, I apologize
for my original email since apparently the worm also looks for email
addresses on newsservers, so anyone who has the address of a newsgroup
stored on his pc is potentially a vector. This was not mentioned on the
mcafee page, if I knew that I wouldn’t have sent that email… I still
figure my recent posts caused the problems, but I guess none of you can
help that
Sorry, such a sudden s***load of viruses made me panic… Not for getting
infected (linux box), but for going down that same road as everyone. Been
pretty spam and virus free before, at least on this email address.
I can recommend popfile which has solved my spam problem almost totally.
It has a 99.35% classification rate when classifying incoming messages
in 15 different categories. Its a bit of a mem hog though but on a modern
day computer its not much of an issue.
> I can recommend popfile which has solved my spam problem almost
> totally. It has a 99.35% classification rate when classifying incoming
> messages in 15 different categories. Its a bit of a mem hog though but
> on a modern day computer its not much of an issue.
I use popfile also; which is fine for sorting them to trash. However,
these things all have huge attachments and my ISP keeps telling me
messages have been bounced because my space on their server is full. I
have to download each twenty minutes to keep it from exceeding 10Mb.
–
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of
thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible,
because there will be no words in which to express it.
– George Orwell, 1984
I don’t whether we are all receiving the same stuff, my mailbox is
flooded with messages that pretend to be security patches from you know
who. Each message is +150K and I receiving one per minute or more.
The technical service of my ISP was not very… proactive, so I hacked
up this Perl POP3 customized filter that I send in case it can help to
someone the same is helping me.
It’s simple, gets a TOP from the POP3 server, if the message has more
than 150K or in the headers or first 20 lines of body MS or Microsoft
is present prints the Subject and the From and asks whether you want to
delete it from the server. MS or Microsoft are highlited in bold red
for easy identification.
I can recommend popfile which has solved my spam problem almost
totally. It has a 99.35% classification rate when classifying
incoming messages in 15 different categories. Its a bit of a mem
hog though but on a modern day computer its not much of an issue.
I use popfile also; which is fine for sorting them to trash.
However, these things all have huge attachments and my ISP keeps
telling me messages have been bounced because my space on their
server is full. I have to download each twenty minutes to keep it
from exceeding 10Mb.
wow. that is awesome, but can't we throw virtual rotten apples at you or
something for posting a Pxxx script? i would never be so bold!
-a
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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Xavier Noria wrote:
The technical service of my ISP was not very… proactive, so I hacked up
this Perl POP3 customized filter that I send in case it can help to someone
the same is helping me.
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Ara Howard
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory
Information and Technology Services
Data Systems Group
R/FST 325 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80305-3328
Email: ara.t.howard@noaa.gov
Phone: 303-497-7238
Fax: 303-497-7259
~ > ruby -e ‘p(%.\x2d\x29…intern)’
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The technical service of my ISP was not very… proactive, so I hacked up
this Perl POP3 customized filter that I send in case it can help to someone
the same is helping me.
wow. that is awesome, but can't we throw virtual rotten apples at you or
something for posting a Pxxx script? i would never be so bold!
[virtual rotten apple flies though the air] I was justing think that!
So let’s see the ruby version someone…this could be a learning
experience for me as I have no POP3 knowledge at all.
It also includes some performance enhancements (e.g., it doesn’t ask on
EVERY message, but on the block of messages – and then asks for each
message if you don’t delete all at once).
