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| Thread ID: 51344 | 2004-11-18 08:41:00 | Being sent viruses via e-mail | george12 (7) | Press F1 |
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| 293600 | 2004-11-18 15:15:00 | Goerge, Do some serious tracking, and the go and repair the hamilton computer with a sledge hammer. some here could advise on serious tracking gear, i can provide you few mediocre links if you wish. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 293601 | 2004-11-18 19:07:00 | Easy way, you have a common string in the header, "the domain", Filter it. Make a rule such as if "from" contains xyz@domain.co.nz "delete" . I agree in an ideal world the isp should be able to help and I have had positive resuluts with off shore ISP's using the abuse method but as was stated ealier it does not always work and as far as sifting through log files, grep (windows version or linux version) is wonderful. |
beama (111) | ||
| 293602 | 2004-11-19 06:05:00 | Well, the domain is either yahoo or hotmail, and the address before the @ is random... So, unless I filtered all yahoo and hotmail users it wouldn't work. Think how many sales that would lose! I'll just give up if ringing Ihug gives no luck. Microsoft gave the delete function for a good reason. OK, the reason was to make money but.... Thanks for the advice, George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 293603 | 2004-11-19 06:35:00 | Have you considered that this is the the work of a data miner or some other bug? Do a full scan with "Spybot 1.3" & "Adaware SE". Use "Mail Washer" to read your mail before downloading it, delete the spam without downloading it. All these are free and are on PC World CD's. |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 293604 | 2004-11-19 07:29:00 | I have both and scan regularly. It's coming from outside, so IMO it is some poor person out there in Hamilton on Ihug who should be running Spybot more frequently (and an antivirus). I personally choose to allow all e-mails to be downloaded, to ensure I do not miss anything and because I am perfectly happy deleting the 3 or 4 spam e-mail I receive per day. Thanks for the suggestion anyway. Cheers George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 293605 | 2004-11-19 08:48:00 | I had a similar problem with a company addy I permanently fixed it with www.vanquish.com (it comes with a price unfortunately) |
fairway (5932) | ||
| 293606 | 2004-11-20 03:56:00 | OK, George 12. Did you know that Mailwasher has a preview mail facilitity in it which means that you can read the email while it is still at the ISP end? Hope it Helps - as this would help you avoid downloading anything you didn't want. ;) eef2 |
eef2 (1904) | ||
| 293607 | 2004-11-21 11:09:00 | Just received 6 more viruses, all from the same person. These are now all different viruses, so I don't think the person is just infected. The TO e-mail addresses for these e-mail addresses don't exist: Free_Mail@jgih.com lgc396@jgih.com (Two examples) They're all from COMPLETELY different domains (hot.ee, eircom.net, djfbruue.net, uyshf73hfdnv.com, 1877.net etc), but all the same IP. NAV deletes them and politely informes me of them, allowing me to view them if I want. I don't want a mail filtering program, as I have had bad experiences in the past with customers' e-mails being deleted. Cheers George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 293608 | 2004-11-21 11:15:00 | Configure your mail server properly so it only accepts the specific addresses you require and drop everything else. | ninja (1671) | ||
| 293609 | 2004-11-22 07:42:00 | OK I will - that will stop 2 out of the 10 I have received. Cheers George |
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