Stop send me emails!

[Baldrick]

The last hour have I received over 500 emails.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.f@mm.html

This virus must be on all computers.

[SLK001]

You are directing your anger at the wrong target! You need to address your rage at the virus itself, and at the slime-bastard who originally wrote it!

[i_am_dave]

Baldrick,

Perhaps it is because you are so popular that your e-mail address is found by the virus in so many address books.

[pbhalerao]

You are directing your anger at the wrong target! You need to address your rage at the virus itself, and at the slime-bastard who originally wrote it!

You are right. But imagine poor Baldrick's situation. What he is really asking all of us to do is to clean up our m/c and get rid of the virus.

[i_am_dave]

Either I have been really lucky, or else my internet provider is blocking the e-mails.

[Baldrick]

Baldrick,

Perhaps it is because you are so popular that your e-mail address is found by the virus in so many address books.

Everyone that have registered on this forum or posted in our lists have my emails in their outlook...so it is no surprise for me. But this virus must be the worst.

[tgpo]

The last hour have I received over 500 emails..

Oh sorry. I'll stop :P

[sterno]

Either I have been really lucky, or else my internet provider is blocking the e-mails.

That's pretty likely, it's been known for a while and the major vendors of virus scanning software already released definitions for it. I haven't gotten a single copy of it, and I'm on several mailing lists. What I have been flooded with are the "you mailed out a virus" automatic replies sent out by stupid software, since almost all of these Outlook worms forge the return address a lot of the bounces are coming back to mailing lists.

[subclubkid]

I had 13 of 'them' today. It sucks because for a minute I thought I was just popular and people liked me.

[spiderman2k1]

Baldrick If I was you I would use Yahoo email if you get a virus it's on the server not your ISP email that you download. I got a virus in my yahoo email address but yahoo has norton ant virus scanner so I scanned it and norton said it was a virus I did not download it. I know you are running this website and may be yahoo might not do what you want for email but you can upgrade yahoo mail for $20.00 for a 100meg's a year. Also if you use ISP email do not use Out look use edora or some thing else. One other thing and I know this a wacky idea but it works very well Baldrick. Use Virual PC for the PC. Yes they make one to run windows inside of windows LOL. Install and version of windows you want intoa folder. after you install it back up that install burn it or cpy the folder some place else. Now if you get a virus it.s Inside the virtual PC. it will not mess up your real OS. Then if it 's bad just paste a new OS in the fold again. Virus dead never to come back LOL

[Baldrick]

I can easily filter out most virus emails. But several emails are from email servers that says that I have a virus(they just reply to the reply to email) and they are not so easy to filter out.

[mysticgohan17]

i have no contacts in my address book. shows how popular i am

[indolikaa]

i have no contacts in my address book. shows how popular i am

This is not necessarily a bad thing...

[thayne]

I had 865 this morning!!!! grrrrr.

This is funny, spam related cartoon
http://www.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/

[ChrisX]

I haven't received a single virus in any of my e-mail addresses and Baldrick isn't in my Address Book.

I am lucky as I only use my ISP addresses plus Hotmail and Yahoo. They are all filtered and my ISP blocks all virus attachments from getting into the mail server. Hotmail and Yahoo is doing the same, they are all blocked.

I do have one odd Australian e-mail address, which is now very rarely in use with paid subscription period almost finished, only two months left. I am not going to renew it.

Not one virus received yet and I am not sure if the odd mail server is filtered for viruses. I might try and send a simple .exe file to that address and see what happens? The send message may even be stopped due to the attachment type!

All of my Hotmail addresses including the paid "extra storage" are filtered for spams as well. They are deleted automatically. Yahoo got a spam filter and I only get a few spams going into my ISP addresses. In fact, I only received something like 6-8 spams during the past month. They are all deleted manually.

I used to get dozens of the Klez e-mail messages last year into an outsider e-mail address. I got this address for free from an old vehicle website which isn't safe and this means a non-filtered mail server. I received some spams as well. I stopped using this address on reasons as obviously too much.

Anyway, lucky for me, Norton's NAV deletes the virus messages for me. I was also unlucky as well. One of my computers was infected with the Nimba worm last year with 5,000 infected files. The computer now since re-formatted twice.

I have enough of the viruses and a worm. My advice is to use a safe e-mail server if possible and filter your e-mail client as well such as blocking the e-mail attachments.

[Faustus]

Number of infected emails I've gotten: 0

This means one of 2 things. Either 1) My friends are all above average computer users. Or 2) I have no friends.

Either is open to being truth at this point.