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22 Aug 03 - 01:57 PM (#1006566) Subject: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: Bill D on this page is a temporary helper program to screen email...it might ease things for some.. |
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22 Aug 03 - 01:58 PM (#1006567) Subject: RE: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: Bill D here are 2 comment from the newsgroup where I found it, "Works great. I bet I was bombarded with 200 sobig infected e-mails yesterday. Since this program keeps stats, it will be interesting to see how many it catches." "Thanks for this link, Bob. I've been using this program all day today and it intercepted 1348 bogus emails saving me a lot of time. Unfortunately it doesn't intercept "undeliverable" messages so there were a few hundred more that I had to ditch manually." |
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22 Aug 03 - 04:15 PM (#1006646) Subject: RE: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: McGrath of Harlow Thanks. With this and Mailwasher, maybe it'll stem the tide. I feel like King Canute. But what does "temporary" mean here? That preetty soon the creep who set this one up will modify it so that the program won't work? What would happen if one was foolish enough to open one of teattachments? |
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22 Aug 03 - 04:28 PM (#1006653) Subject: RE: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: katlaughing Hmmm, thanks, Bill. I've passed it on to Rog, at work, where they've been having major problems with this. My Eudora seems to have thwarted whatever (my fingers are crossed:-). kat |
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22 Aug 03 - 07:06 PM (#1006723) Subject: RE: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: Sorcha At least this is one problem I'm not having trouble with! |
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22 Aug 03 - 10:29 PM (#1006787) Subject: RE: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: Bill D McGrath...all I meant was that this program is specialized for just this virus...it is not a general purpose tool and will be of no use when this virus is history..(he says it is free, but if you want to contribtute, he won't refuse..) |
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22 Aug 03 - 11:28 PM (#1006808) Subject: RE: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: GUEST,.gargoyle If you get it...change ISP's...they should have screened it out first. |
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23 Aug 03 - 09:20 AM (#1006955) Subject: RE: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: bbc Thanks, Bill. I haven't had the problem, but my son & his girlfriend are deluged w/ the junk! bbc |
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23 Aug 03 - 11:18 AM (#1006994) Subject: RE: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: Stilly River Sage This program doesn't make a lot of sense. This is one remark I question:
If it's resident on your computer, how is it going to stop undelivered email on the email server? You aren't going to install this on your ISPs server. I suspect this doesn't acurately describe what it really does and I question if it does anything. I'm doing just fine with my Norton Antivirus, my spam guard setup at my ISP, and common sense. SRS |
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23 Aug 03 - 11:47 AM (#1007002) Subject: RE: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: Bill D well, by running my antivirus and firewall and Win98 and deleting spam on the server, I have no problems yet either, so I have not personally installed it. Perhaps this program works like my mail screening program, which IS resident on my computer, but deletes unwanted mail at the ISP server. I can see a specialized version of a mail screening program being able to do just that. |
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23 Aug 03 - 10:57 PM (#1007197) Subject: RE: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: Mark Cohen I guess the reason I haven't seen all those emails is that I'm still chugging along with Win98SE. I believe I read that the virus and worm of the week only affect 2000 and XP. Now I'm not so sorry I didn't get a new XP computer. Aloha, Mark (whose laptop hard drive has been making little urpy sounds recently so he may have to eat those words...) |
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24 Aug 03 - 04:57 AM (#1007258) Subject: RE: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: Sooz I use Windows 98 and I've had the deluge of emails. |
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24 Aug 03 - 07:25 AM (#1007275) Subject: RE: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: Jim McLean Having Windows 98 wont stop you receiving emails from infected WinXP (2000, NT) computers if you are on their mailing list. |
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24 Aug 03 - 12:17 PM (#1007329) Subject: RE: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: Bill D I have been getting what 'seems' to be an increase in spam recently, but almost none get to my email program (Eudora), unless they arrived while Eudora was doing an automatic check while I had it open....and...now I have turned off THAT possibility, so that I have to manually check for new mail, which I do right after I have deleted the unwanted stuff from the server using a mailscanning program. (am I proselytizing for this system? Well..maybe...*grin*) |
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24 Aug 03 - 05:25 PM (#1007471) Subject: RE: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: Mark Cohen Well, Jim, that makes sense--so it seems I've just been lucky. [knock, knock!] Aloha, Mark |
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24 Aug 03 - 07:38 PM (#1007517) Subject: RE: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: Peter K (Fionn) No wonder the industry has been taken aback by the speed at which this virus propagated itself. To get your machine infected (which has little effect on it, but makes it a vehicle for onward propagation) you have first to be foolish enough to open unsolicited mail from unknown sources, and second foolish enough to open any attachments that come with such mail. Those like Bill D (and me) who don't use non-Microsoft mail clients should not be troubled at all by this particular meance, nor by many others. |
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24 Aug 03 - 07:53 PM (#1007522) Subject: RE: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: Bill D oh, I suspect it is possible to infect yourself using non-MS mail...just easier to avoid (Fionn did mean 'DO' use non-MS) you 'can' click on an attachment in almost any client, but Eudora integrates with my AVG antivirus, as well as having spam filters. |
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25 Aug 03 - 02:20 AM (#1007657) Subject: RE: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: GUEST,jennifer Norton picked up a file infected with sobig and removed it for me. I ran a search for files named sobig, found one in temp internet files and deleted that too. BUT I hadn't opened any unsolicited mails, let alone opened an attachment to one. (Very rarely I do open one, genuine peope are sometimes daft enough to send emails with the subject line "Hi"...) So how did we get it?? Jennifer |
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25 Aug 03 - 11:26 PM (#1008114) Subject: RE: Tech: Sobig virus stopper -checks email From: mack/misophist It's nice to know there's some advantage in being a curmudgeon. This is the first I've heard of this flood of e-mails .Not that it would matter. I don't do windows any more. |