EMAIL VIRUS
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- swollenelbow
anyone getting 1000's of emails that have "foward" in the subject or body of the email? i'm talkin like 10 emails downloaded in like seconds, every second? anyone getting these, very annoying, and what are you doing about it?
- lnu0
I'll mail you and tell you :)
No seriously, I don't get them. Sound bad.
- CAJTBr0
i'm not getting them, but why not telnet to your mail server (port 25 usually) and delete them directly?
- Carty0
there are a few email viruses going around right now... dont open any screensavers, or friendly text with "you'll love this..." or i saw this and thought of you....
all screensaver viruses, i've seen attach to emails and send to all on list... get virus protection. latest norton has stopped all.
- swollenelbow0
would calling the people it's coming from help, or would you rather telnet your mail server?
CAJ would telneting it stop the problem? if so can you call me so you can help me do this?
- swollenelbow0
help everyone!! i hate it
- CAJTBr0
god this stupid thing. i just typed out a whole long message and my login had timed out.
try this:
start/run
telnet your.mailserver.com 110
user yourusername
pass yourpass
dele all
quit
.some servers don't accept dele all. they will accept dele [number]. i can see that would be an immense hassle, but if you have a file full of numbers (or any simple programming languages) you could find/replace it to produce a file of
dele 1
dele 2
dele 3etc.
i'm sure there are a ton of freeware apps out there that will also allow you to do this (eg nonags.com).
as you say though, if they're continually coming, rather than just sitting on the server, it's not going to do you much good as you're going to have to keep going in there and fixing it. calling the people who're doing it would do some good if they're continually being sent, as they could turn off the computer that's messed up.
- quest760
im having that same problem what the screen savers and everything...
how do i get rid of it..?
i called my ISP and they gave me a total run around....they told me to use an Anti virus program to get it out but that didnt work.
what can i do?
HELP ME!!!!
- mbr0
Norton didn't work? I'd make sure to do that live update thing. It's been fantastic for me. The email may get through after the virus is quarantined, but it'll just be blank. Thankfully they stopped coming about 2 months ago. Up till then I was getting a few a day.
- ribit0
I'm on a Mac..and get a lot of these emails with .pif and .scr attached... totally harmless of course, but it's a pain setting up mail filters to send em to the trash...
Does forwarding them all to the postmaster of the originating domain actually help?
- Ctrl_Z0
they have a free online scan of your system drive, also all the malware info you could hope for.
these days malware resides in your sys memory, so many antivirus programs out there do not cut it. good luck.