I keep getting very large emails, usually 144Kb or 156Kb in size that
claim to be from Microsoft or some other legitimate source.

Sometimes I get as many as a dozen in less than a day, which fills my
Hotmail mailbox and frankly is a damn nuisance.

I looked up information @ Microsoft and they said something like,
display and check the full header details, if it says such and such
send it onto Microsoft abuse dept.

The problem I've found is, that these large emails do not have the
particular details that enable me to send them to Microsoft, so
basically I'm fucked.

Anyone else have experience similar, if so how do you deal with it?

Every time I get this shit, I just block it, but it keeps on coming.

Any advice would be appreciated.

TIA

Ian

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:18:04 -0800, Ian wrote:

not open it, make sure your antivirus is really really current, and make
sure you have a firewall that blocks both incoming and outgoing signals
because if you are infected, it will Email itself out via its own smtp
engine.

You are receiving this virus from infected machines that have your email
address someplace, or because you have not munged your address for
postings on usenet, since the SWEN virus pulls addresses directly from
news groups themselves.

And you're going to keep getting them, posting with an
unmunged email address. The MS mails are the result
of a virus, btw.

How do spammers harvest email addresses
http://www.private.org.il/harvest.html

SPAM - Munging Your Email Address
http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html
http://www.internet-tips.net/Email/SPAM_munging.htm

How To Deal With Spam
http://pobox.com/nospam.html

Mail Washer
http://www.mailwasher.net/


On 17 Nov 2003 13:18:04 -0800, in
<205b8282.0311171318.78722be2@posting.google.com >
Ian scrawled:

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Basic computer maintenance
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html

Ianc2000@hotmail.com (Ian) wrote in
news:205b8282.0311171318.78722be2@posting.google.c om:


In addition to Dan Shackelford's message you might like to read these:

~ Munging ~
http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html
http://www.ecofuture.org/jmnews.html#hide

If you use Outlook Express go to...
Tools> Accounts...> News tab> Properties button> General tab.
Under "User Information" change the "Name", "E-mail address"
and "Reply address" fields.

Example: AtoZ_123@Example-Not-A-Domain.com.invalid

Verify that is is Not a valid domain here:
http://www.canufly.net/~georgegg/dns/

~ Spambots ~
http://www.sendfakemail.com/fakemail...t/makebait.asp

~ Harvesting ~
http://www.private.org.il/harvest.html
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~gcasel...arvesting.html

~Safe Hex ~
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/safehex.html
http://www.claymania.com/safe-hex.html

Freeware programs:
SpamPal for Windows http://www.spampal.org/
FrontGateMX http://www.presorium.com/index.shtml

Unpatched IE security holes
http://pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/

Protecting Your Privacy & Security
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/main-nf.htm

ferchristsakes use the Delete key


"Ian" <Ianc2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:205b8282.0311171318.78722be2@posting.google.c om...

Hi,

There is a general article about goodways to deal with SPAM at
http://www.messaging-software.net/sp...ll-it-cost.htm

There are also a number of tools that will assist with different degrees of
filtering at http://www.messaging-software.net/sp...r-software.htm
personally I like SpamAgent.
JJ