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914World.com _ 914World Garage _ OT: SPAM Deluge

Posted by: McMark Nov 21 2005, 10:06 PM

I've gotten about 36 SPAM emails today. Not my usual 4-6. Anyone getting lots?

Posted by: fiid Nov 21 2005, 10:15 PM

I actually have about 4 tiers of spam filtering. The 3rd tier is spamassassin - which bounced 76 emails today as spam.

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 21 2005, 10:16 PM

QUOTE (McMark @ Nov 21 2005, 09:06 PM)
I've gotten about 36 SPAM emails today. Not my usual 4-6. Anyone getting lots?

yeah, new SPAM-A-LOT virus thing out there ...

i guess people *still* click on attachments in emails from people they don't know ...

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sober.x@mm.html

Andy

Posted by: Aaron Cox Nov 21 2005, 10:19 PM

i got a few more than usual today also....

Posted by: McMark Nov 21 2005, 10:20 PM

Figured.

I checked Slashdot, but didn't see anything, so I knew the 914Club wouldn't fail me.

Posted by: sj914 Nov 21 2005, 10:37 PM

I don't know if this was SPAM, but it was supposedly the FBI has tracked my IP going into 30 different illegal websites. And that I need to fill out their questionaire.

Posted by: McMark Nov 21 2005, 10:38 PM

Yeah, apparently I was a bad boy too, because they want me to fill out the same questionnaire.

Posted by: sj914 Nov 21 2005, 10:40 PM

I didn't know the 914club website and motorsports websites were illegal

Posted by: SirAndy Nov 21 2005, 10:52 PM

QUOTE (sj914 @ Nov 21 2005, 09:37 PM)
I don't know if this was SPAM, but it was supposedly the FBI has tracked my IP going into 30 different illegal websites. And that I need to fill out their questionaire.

yepp, that's the one. new virus that send a copy of itself out to anyone in your address book ....

see link in my above post for more details ...
Andy

Posted by: mharrison Nov 22 2005, 10:39 PM

I've got you guys beat. My IP has been tracked by the FBI AND the CIA!

The great thing is, it's supposedly from the same person who apparently works at both places! I wonder if the Feds know that she's double dipping!

Posted by: bd1308 Nov 22 2005, 11:11 PM

no problems here

b

Posted by: Cap'n Krusty Nov 23 2005, 01:33 AM

QUOTE (sj914 @ Nov 21 2005, 08:40 PM)
I didn't know the 914club website and motorsports websites were illegal

Only in Canada ......... The Cap'n

Posted by: sj914 Nov 23 2005, 01:38 AM

The virus is hitting hard. I've been getting emails from earthlink all day, saying that there was a virus detected on my emails. The virus even made the news on the netscape home page.