Lets face it all, once these things get generated, its damned hard to stop them. I do however see the wisdom of not allowing attachments though, as i never see anybody use them in a long long time. But for the most part, all Onj and the rest of us can do is ride it out. It stops after awhile. Those other weird story spams did. Just dont open anything from this list. ESPECIALLY if its less than 100k. I mean come on now y'all, some things are just very obvious. grin.
--- On Sat, 10/17/09, shaun everiss <shau...@xtra.co.nz> wrote: From: shaun everiss <shau...@xtra.co.nz> Subject: Re: The Talk2 List viruses again To: "talk2" <talk2@AndreLouis.COM> Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 2:58 PM <grin> well for the time being I have put up my email protection its usually not necessary since my isp has norton and that usually works however its not detecting the viruses, so I have put my own up as well with avg9. this means more space used on my drive and a few more resources used but at least nothing will sneak in here. If it gets any worse I may have to bar all attaches which will be a hastle if someone wants to send me things over email. Come to think of it that hardly happens now but still. At 11:21 p.m. 17/10/2009, you wrote: >It's not due to a lack of trying. they come no matter what I do. Perhaps I >will pay someone to program an entirely new approach to spam called >fly-swatting. It'll be router-side, and therefore much more interesting. Who >knows, maybe it will get shit done. > >From: Patrick Perdue <patr...@pdaudio.net> >on Saturday, October 17, 2009 11:04 AM > >>Just because it's coming from the outside isn't a good excuse not to do >>something about it, like not allowing messages with html/attachments to >>make it to the list, as there is really no need for either on this >>particular forum. I thought that used to be the case? >>Also, each of these messages is 42KB, and sending that out to a bunch of >>users every time one of these comes in... yeah. >> >>I get enough of these fake spammy/virus things as it is with my broken >>Spam Assassin, which is thwarting my efforts at every turn, because I'm >>obviously an idiot, and don't know what I'm doing. >> >>Maybe I will build an isolated virtual machine just fur running viruses >>to see what they do. No, actually, I'm not that bored. >> >>Onj wrote: >>>Read your headers. These are coming from the outside, in. That server >>>never runs anything, so it's unlikely to be effected, but it's easy >>>enough to spoof email even if you're not trying. Apparently some people >>>are just bored enough to do so, and make it look like it's from me. >>>It's all about spf and other crap. >>> >>>From: shaun everiss <shau...@xtra.co.nz> >>>on Friday, October 16, 2009 11:02 PM >>> >>>>Hi. >>>>now it appears I get a virus with the name install.zip. >>>>this is not once a day, I suspect the server is infected or something. >>>>it all comes from poor onj. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Did you miss a message? Well, don't. >>>>http://www.mail-archive.com/talk2%40andrelouis.com/ >>>>has it for you. Never miss a Talk2 message again. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Did you miss a message? Well, don't. >>>http://www.mail-archive.com/talk2%40andrelouis.com/ >>>has it for you. Never miss a Talk2 message again. > > > > >Did you miss a message? Well, don't. >http://www.mail-archive.com/talk2%40andrelouis.com/ >has it for you. Never miss a Talk2 message again. > > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 9.0.686 / Virus Database: 270.14.20/2443 - Release Date: 10/18/09 >02:08:00 Did you miss a message? Well, don't. http://www.mail-archive.com/talk2%40andrelouis.com/ has it for you. Never miss a Talk2 message again.
