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The Balance Of Judgement
Senior Member
Ivory Coast
1006 Posts |
 Posted - 21 Sep 2003 : 20:09:38
That's right, I open my Inbox and it says 40 new messages! And every friggon one is a Virus! Now, I'm on a Mac, so it's not like it's gonna hurt me, but it's anoying and it clogged up my mail server and my inbox. So, People using Windows should really check and make sure they are patched. I hate this sorta thing. Still doesn't beat the all time record I had over 300 e-mails in one day.:/ |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 21 Sep 2003 : 21:58:46
Eek...W32.Swen?  "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers
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Derekcat
Junior Member
USA
342 Posts |
Posted - 21 Sep 2003 : 22:03:57
300? O_O
I have barely deleted any of my email [since I activated the account] and I only have ~160 some…If I open my window all the bugs will get in…That's just one more reason to use a Mac!
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The Balance Of Judgement
Senior Member
Ivory Coast
1006 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2003 : 00:06:33
The neat thing is, I set outlook to filter mail, so if a mail has an attachment of .exe, it's set to lowest priority and the attachment is removed.Besides, I can't uses exe's.
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2003 : 03:23:40
LOL, nice. "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2003 : 06:08:46
Well I can't do that on uReach, and I've been getting a steady stream of at least 17 "bulk mails" (swen) per day... uReach has one of the most kickarse spam filters  It is pretty annoying, because those things are almost 200k per message, and I only get 6 mb of storage.... (BTW, uReach is a webmail.... www.ureach.com) Official 68k videographer
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The Balance Of Judgement
Senior Member
Ivory Coast
1006 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2003 : 08:27:18
www.geektools.comUse that to look up dns reports to find out who spammers are using and have them shut down by e-mailing thier hostmasters. Also, Windows users can use MailWasher, which will actually create a bounce for any message you want, giving the user an instance "cannot deliver" error. :) So far I sent out 10 reports already. Most hosts don't turn of routing or whatever it's called and SPAM gets bounced this way. :/
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2003 : 10:06:33
niice, I've been thinking of enabling a mail service on my server, and possibly to let people who I know use that service...I'm not so sure if I'd want to have a mail server now, especially in the past few weeks with so many eMail based virii this morning, another 17 in my uReach SpamBox... Official 68k videographer
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Da Penguin
Senior Member
USA
1094 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2003 : 13:18:25
I'm signed up to many mailing lists, so I get probably 300+ A DAY, minus the spam, because mail filters it out *pets his beige G3 server* Keeps runnin fine! Uptime is nearing 60 days! ~The Penguin **| Want free 68kmla email? Drop me a line |**
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boredomconquersall
Full Member
Canada
613 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2003 : 21:06:53
heh. that is NOTHING compaired to my Email at one point. befor I got hotmail (which was back when it wasn't part of MSN ) I was getting at LEAST 500 spams a day (the most I got was 1500) urgh........... itr was dumbtypos are because of crappy keyboard.
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2003 : 22:06:44
I seriously doubt that there's any way snyone could be getting 500 spams a day, even 150 of just spams...I can see maybe a published author or someone, who has his eMail address WAY out there, maybe getting 200-300 per day of eMails from people, but just in spams.... no way... Official 68k videographer
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Da Penguin
Senior Member
USA
1094 Posts |
Posted - 23 Sep 2003 : 04:22:35
Spam bots don't care if someone is famous, well known, etc. The do one thing...KILL...erm, i mean send spam..
Before I went to my own server entirely, my former address received around 150-200 spam a day, so it is very possible. Of course, once it gets to such a level, som responsibility usually falls upon the end user.~The Penguin **| Want free 68kmla email? Drop me a line |**
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 23 Sep 2003 : 06:23:05
that's just... "glayven"...and 150-200 still isn't 500... I said that famous people got 200-300 eMails/day from REAL people, and the last time i checked on that (ohw much eMail andy pogue got, IIRC), Spam wasn't much of a problem.... (1998?) Official 68k videographer
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The Balance Of Judgement
Senior Member
Ivory Coast
1006 Posts |
Posted - 23 Sep 2003 : 07:23:29
Spammers are having a fun fest with the new viruses because they activate anonymous proxies and smtp engines which spammers can then use to send spam with no traceable ID.And Spammers send out literally Billions of e-mails a day. See, they get 2% sales roughly based on what they Spam. So if out of 1 million e-mails, 2% respond and out of that 2% another 2% buy, they are still making good money. Sadly.
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 23 Sep 2003 : 10:14:06
I bet, the internet would be 10% faster, if spam needn't exist...Just think of all the spam servers recieve, Penguin's server for example, he recieves what, 150 eMails a day? noninclusive of the spams, IIRC... so if his server didn't get any spam, that's probably 10 MB of space not filled on his drive(s), 10 minutes not spent sorting out the bad stuff and deleting, (or 10% of the processors' time during a minute for Mail.APP to sort it...) Then, there's the total amount of the transfer of that 10 MB that doesn't exist on the internet for that day, that could be used for more page loads of the MLA, so people can post more, or it could be used so that people can access his server more often, multimedia goes faster, and there's more credibility in sending real eMails. Official 68k videographer
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~tl
Junior Member
United Kingdom
312 Posts |
Posted - 23 Sep 2003 : 10:48:01
when i had a hotmail account (for MSN Messenger ... i.e i didnt use it for any actual email), one day i emptied out the 50 or so pieces of junk mail that had accumulated over the last few weeks and the new mail thing in MSN happily said "0" for a few days ... next time i logged (the next night) on i had 556 pieces of new junk mail  ... 556 in one day  ... so i scrapped my account, and registered a .net account for my real email address ... now i oficially hate hotmail and havent used it since  Orcadian MLA Division
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geekwurkz
Junior Member
USA
156 Posts |
Posted - 23 Sep 2003 : 13:20:37
I only use hotmail because MSN thinks people like crappy web-based e-mail. And, to make sure you never use a real e-mail account again, they run your connection through a proxy that blocks practally all non-http requests. BTW... does anyone here have a good proxy server that I can connect to? I need to access my non-MSN e-mail from home.Nick -------------------------
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Derekcat
Junior Member
USA
342 Posts |
Posted - 23 Sep 2003 : 13:56:29
heh, I think having a long email address helps me to keep the spam down
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