On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:12:26PM -0700, Zach Archer wrote: > Hi. I started receiving a whole lot of spam last night, shortly after > subscribing and posting to this newsgroup for the first time. I'm not > sure which brand of net-annoyant it is, but I'm receiving a lot of > messages with big .exe files attached (funny that I can't open these > in my macintosh household) > > A lot of these say things like "New critical update" from "Microsoft" > (obviously neither is true) > http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/authenticate_mail.asp for info > > I'm hoping one of you can take corrective action to kill this virus, > because my mailbox filled to capacity today and started bouncing > messages back to people >:(
I got sick of this too, and installed a little perl script called popfilter, from web.iscali.it . It took a little while to get going, but does the job nicely. The nice thing is you don't have to download the message (with the damn attachment), it deletes remotely. Here's a .email_blacklist I've used to get most of these bastards: 20031001 =>Microsoft<= =>. 20031001 =>Client<= =>. 20031001 =>User<= =>. 20031001 =>Partner<= =>. 20031001 =>Consumer<= =>. 20031001 =>Customer<= =>. 20031001 =>.<= =>Internet 20031001 =>.<= =>Critical 20031001 =>.<= =>Security 20031001 =>.<= =>Microsoft I'm planning to set this up in a cron job, because otherwise my mailbox fills up as you said. I also gave my ISP an earfull for not affering any server side solutions. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
