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Re: OT: Spam & Junk email - what to do?
- Subject: Re: OT: Spam & Junk email - what to do?
- From: Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:59:15 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: faddenInternet, Inc.
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Stephen Hartz <SHartz@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> This may be a little off topic here, but as a regular here I'm going to
> post it anyway. I keep getting JUNK emails 'security updates', etc , on
> Outlook Express, which I use to access comp.sys apple2 . Is there a way to
> block this stuff???
I woke up to find 675 of these waiting for me (74MB). It's not spam
or junk, it's the latest Microsoft e-mail virus. Opening the "patch"
infects the machine.
(Thankfully I run linux/qmail/procmail/spamassassin, and can redirect
anything with a Microsoft executable to /dev/null.)
Make sure your machine is clean -- products from Symantec and MacAfee can
help here -- and then just weather the storm.
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