spam virus attempts
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spam virus attempts
I recently have been receiving a ton of emails from various places with virus files attached, though all have been stopped by my AV program it's getting annoying, any way of tracing them to see if they come from the same source? i don't want to use a spam filter as i'll lose valuable emails.
Same here, although the "spam" I got was from antivirus filters - someone had used one of my email addresses as reply to when they sent out that crap.
That's five years Siberia and no desert for those guys if I ever get them.
For Spam-Filtering - personally, I find the most precise filtering to be client-side, i.e. the ridiculously easy to configure filters of Thunderbird (fantastic email-client by the Mozilla guys). The server-side filters I have are fine, but I had one or two emails from friends of mine being filtered away (sigh).
That's five years Siberia and no desert for those guys if I ever get them.
For Spam-Filtering - personally, I find the most precise filtering to be client-side, i.e. the ridiculously easy to configure filters of Thunderbird (fantastic email-client by the Mozilla guys). The server-side filters I have are fine, but I had one or two emails from friends of mine being filtered away (sigh).
Here's a more detailed description: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3439959.stm
went to bed early last night, just logged on and deleted 13 "make it bigger" and "ladies wont believe the size" emails, the weird thing its on my ISP email address....which i only use with msn
...makes you wonder dont it? and to top it off..i dont have any anti-virus prog installed on this computer, better get some eh?
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Someone must've been trying to use my andrew@php.net account for some of these emails, because i get a *<span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>* of these return to sender mails every hour. So, yeah...
For those running in win32 enviroment; http://www.mailwasher.net/ is something I can recommend.
Basicly an application (not a proxy as many others) that you can use to checkout the inbox for messages, with the ability to use for example regex and blacklists/whitelists to either allow or deny/bounce/delete mails depending of it's nature.
Been using it for some time now, and the result is (for me) amazing. For the record; I'm recieving 40-70 mails/day, ~80% spam, 100% spam caught, no friendly or acurate mails mislead as spam yet.
The first *nix worm that was succesfully spread was written in late 1980 (according to an Symantec interview on idg.se) and there have been many more since. I doubt it would be so hard to find, if you really actually looked for it in the correct places...
Basicly an application (not a proxy as many others) that you can use to checkout the inbox for messages, with the ability to use for example regex and blacklists/whitelists to either allow or deny/bounce/delete mails depending of it's nature.
Been using it for some time now, and the result is (for me) amazing. For the record; I'm recieving 40-70 mails/day, ~80% spam, 100% spam caught, no friendly or acurate mails mislead as spam yet.
Can I take you up on that?xisle wrote:find me a hacker that writes linux or mac worms and I'll send you a beer! microbrew even!