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"Mike" <mvw@netspace.net.au> wrote in message
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> Is anyone else having trouble with this stupid microsoft security updat
> virus. I have been hit approx 1000 times in 2 days ?
>
> Mike

I'm assuming you didn't read any of the other posts on here before you hit
the send button?

Nicky

"Bill" <wsb312@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:42:29 GMT, "nicky" <feckinghell@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >I'm assuming you didn't read any of the other posts on here before you
hit
> >the send button?
>
>
> They never seem to.
Oh well I guess he probably never will.
-- 
Mick (:-))
You don't have to be mad to post on Usenet,
but it certainly helps.


---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.520 / Virus Database: 318 - Release Date: 18/09/2003

I am a victim too. hundreds of those message per day. It's awful.

"Mike" <mvw@netspace.net.au> wrote in message
news:bkhahg$1bsh$1@otis.netspace.net.au...
> Is anyone else having trouble with this stupid microsoft security updat
> virus. I have been hit approx 1000 times in 2 days ?
>
> Mike
>
>

some people use a sever that only holds messages for a day or two
so they may not have seen the earlier messages

Kev

Mick wrote:
> 
> "Bill" <wsb312@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:accomv0ukug9a2pve3lt0qvlpneh5365ju@4ax.com...
> > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:42:29 GMT, "nicky" <feckinghell@hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >I'm assuming you didn't read any of the other posts on here before you
> hit
> > >the send button?
> >
> >
> > They never seem to.
> Oh well I guess he probably never will.
> --
> Mick (:-))
> You don't have to be mad to post on Usenet,
> but it certainly helps.
> 
> ---
> Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
> Version: 6.0.520 / Virus Database: 318 - Release Date: 18/09/2003

"Bill" <wsb312@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:35:26 +1000, "Mike" <mvw@netspace.net.au>
> wrote:
>
> >Is anyone else having trouble with this stupid microsoft security updat
> >virus. I have been hit approx 1000 times in 2 days ?
>
>
> Anyone who has used a legitmate email address while posting to usenet.

I  use one, only received 3 today. :)

I'm up to 170 copies. Pain in the neck when I d/l from home on the 
modem. I log on via webmail first and delete them all.

Anyone know how to configure the latest netscape to post a fake address 
in newsgroups while using the real one for email?

Richard


Bill wrote:

>On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:35:26 +1000, "Mike" <mvw@netspace.net.au>
>wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Is anyone else having trouble with this stupid microsoft security updat
>>virus. I have been hit approx 1000 times in 2 days ?
>>    
>>
>
>
>Anyone who has used a legitmate email address while posting to usenet.
>  
>

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:35:26 +1000, "Mike" <mvw@netspace.net.au>
wrote:

>Is anyone else having trouble with this stupid microsoft security updat
>virus. I have been hit approx 1000 times in 2 days ?

A better question would be "is anyone *not* having trouble with them".


T.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu - e-mail must contain "T.E.D." or my .sig in the body)

I got 2 on Friday.

"Mike" <mvw@netspace.net.au> wrote in message
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> Is anyone else having trouble with this stupid microsoft security updat
> virus. I have been hit approx 1000 times in 2 days ?
>
> Mike
>
>

"Ted Davis" <tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:35:26 +1000, "Mike" <mvw@netspace.net.au>
> wrote:
>
>>Is anyone else having trouble with this stupid microsoft security updat
>>virus. I have been hit approx 1000 times in 2 days ?
>
> A better question would be "is anyone *not* having trouble with them".

I've not received one. I had to download an example to test my AV.
My real email addy has never appeared in Usenet headers, apart from
2 or 3 times last year.

Me too Mike....
I got hit about 4-500 times in 2 days....what a pain in the ass deleting
this crap. My ISP cleaned it....but then they send me a message I have to
dump....let me know if anyone has a way to completely reflect this
stuff...take care, Ross



"Mike" <mvw@netspace.net.au> wrote in message
news:bkhahg$1bsh$1@otis.netspace.net.au...
> Is anyone else having trouble with this stupid microsoft security updat
> virus. I have been hit approx 1000 times in 2 days ?
>
> Mike
>
>

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:35:26 +1000, "Mike" <mvw@netspace.net.au>
wrote:

>Is anyone else having trouble with this stupid microsoft security updat
>virus. I have been hit approx 1000 times in 2 days ?
>
>Mike
>

I got the email this morning. Deleted it with MailWasher.
Couldn't add it to the blacklist, though.
When you say you were hit 1000 times, do you men you received 1000
emails or had hits on your firewall?
I have been getting around 3000 of those per day. Bigpond said it is
the Blaster virus.


brianWE
Great cop out line #1
"Well, it works for me".

Opened outlook up this morning and it had 730 new emails ..... al that
stupid microsoft virus patch.

ugh

mike
"Bill" <wsb312@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:52:53 GMT, brian w edginton
> <edgo1@REMOVETHISbigpond.com> wrote:
>
> >When you say you were hit 1000 times, do you men you received 1000
> >emails or had hits on your firewall?
>
> He means he received 1000 copies.
>
>
> >I have been getting around 3000 of those per day. Bigpond said it is
> >the Blaster virus.
>
>
> Bigpond doesn't know what they're talking about.

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:51:06 +0100, "Ant" <not@home.today> wrote:

>"Ted Davis" <tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu> wrote in message
>news:csvomvgdeaat6k9tk4csr4ci9bbvklenj7@4ax.com...
>> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:35:26 +1000, "Mike" <mvw@netspace.net.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Is anyone else having trouble with this stupid microsoft security updat
>>>virus. I have been hit approx 1000 times in 2 days ?
>>
>> A better question would be "is anyone *not* having trouble with them".
>
>I've not received one. I had to download an example to test my AV.
>My real email addy has never appeared in Usenet headers, apart from
>2 or 3 times last year.
>

All that means is that you are not very popular: your address is not
in a large number of address books or otherwise in files on infected
machines.  One of my addresses is like that, but I never use it for
anything.


T.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu - e-mail must contain "T.E.D." or my .sig in the body)

Hi:

Yes I am getting that and getting many other posts and "retunrned mail" messages. I Have
checked and  rechecked my system and its clean, so it must be from someone else.

Nothing much I can do is there?

Regards

John Baker

"Mike" <mvw@netspace.net.au> wrote:

>Is anyone else having trouble with this stupid microsoft security updat
>virus. I have been hit approx 1000 times in 2 days ?
>
>Mike
>

Yep same here.I use Mailwasherto ban the domains now and bounce

"Mike" <mvw@netspace.net.au> wrote in message
news:bkhahg$1bsh$1@otis.netspace.net.au...
> Is anyone else having trouble with this stupid microsoft security updat
> virus. I have been hit approx 1000 times in 2 days ?
>
> Mike
>
>

"Ross Mac" <macroeng@att.net> wrote in message news:<Vu1bb.150778$3o3.10806941@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>...
> Me too Mike....
> I got hit about 4-500 times in 2 days....what a pain in the ass deleting
> this crap. My ISP cleaned it....but then they send me a message I have to
> dump....let me know if anyone has a way to completely reflect this
> stuff...take care, Ross

I've accumulated hundreds.  It's the worst spam-attack I've ever had.
I wonder why my Hotmail address is unaffected, however.

Wordsmith :)  

 
> 
> 
> "Mike" <mvw@netspace.net.au> wrote in message
> news:bkhahg$1bsh$1@otis.netspace.net.au...
> > Is anyone else having trouble with this stupid microsoft security updat
> > virus. I have been hit approx 1000 times in 2 days ?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:02:13 GMT, "Ross Mac" <macroeng@att.net> wrote:
> Me too Mike....
> I got hit about 4-500 times in 2 days....what a pain in the ass deleting
> this crap.

My tally seems to be about 60 Microsoft Patch e-mails per day. I am using
56k dial-up because there is no broadband service here. I'm wondering if
people experiencing daily hits in the thousands are on broadband connectons?
Maybe my slow phone line is strangling some of the "Microsoft Patch" traffic.
If so, GOODY!

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 01:11:27 GMT, Zebulon Blah <wanker@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:02:13 GMT, "Ross Mac" <macroeng@att.net> wrote:
> > Me too Mike....
> > I got hit about 4-500 times in 2 days....what a pain in the ass deleting
> > this crap.
> 
> Maybe my slow phone line is strangling some of the "Microsoft Patch" traffic.
> If so, GOODY!
> 
On second thought, forget I just said that. The phone line has nothing do to with
the speed or amount of traffic coming into the mail POP server where all the
messages are piling up.

Silly me.

Ive been getting it but not to that extent.
I use "Mailwasher" to block it.......works for me


"Mike" <mvw@netspace.net.au> wrote in message
news:bkhahg$1bsh$1@otis.netspace.net.au...
> Is anyone else having trouble with this stupid microsoft security updat
> virus. I have been hit approx 1000 times in 2 days ?
>
> Mike
>
>

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 01:11:27 GMT, Zebulon Blah's long-suffering mother
turned her back for just a moment, and Zebulon Blah did *this* to
alt.comp.virus:

>On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:02:13 GMT, "Ross Mac" <macroeng@att.net> wrote:
>> Me too Mike....
>> I got hit about 4-500 times in 2 days....what a pain in the ass deleting
>> this crap.
>
>My tally seems to be about 60 Microsoft Patch e-mails per day. I am using
>56k dial-up because there is no broadband service here. I'm wondering if
>people experiencing daily hits in the thousands are on broadband connectons?
>Maybe my slow phone line is strangling some of the "Microsoft Patch" traffic.
>If so, GOODY!

No, I'm using 56K dial-up and have had thousands of them.
-- 
PJR :-)
mhm34x8
Smeeter #30
Alcatroll Labs Inc. (Executive Vice-President)
news:alt.fan.pjr
Delete "NOSWENPLEASE" to reply.

"Bill" <wsb312@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:34:15 -0500, Ted Davis
> <tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu> wrote:
>>
>>All that means is that you are not very popular:

I'm very careful about who I allow to have my email address.

> No, it means that either he has munged his email address in usenet or

Correct.

> has some other filtering system in place. In this case, I believe it's
> the latter.

No filtering by me or my ISP.

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:59:13 +0100, "Ant" <not@home.today> wrote:

>"Bill" <wsb312@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:hrtpmv8vvn154ngo3tckkjacigmuovdene@4ax.com...
>> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:34:15 -0500, Ted Davis
>> <tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>All that means is that you are not very popular:
>
>I'm very careful about who I allow to have my email address.
>
>> No, it means that either he has munged his email address in usenet or
>
>Correct.
>
>> has some other filtering system in place. In this case, I believe it's
>> the latter.
>
>No filtering by me or my ISP.
>

They don't need to know your address....their bots shotgun the 'net
with computer generated addresses. Millions per day. they only need a
few hits on existing addresses to make it worth their while. They,
already, have lists of genuine domains. Best defence is a user name so
silly, even a computer wouldn't dream it up. :)


brianWE
Money? Spend it before it is all gone!

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:34:17 GMT, Bill <wsb312@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:33:44 GMT, brian w edginton
><edgo1@REMOVETHISbigpond.com> wrote:
>
>>They don't need to know your address....their bots shotgun the 'net
>>with computer generated addresses. Millions per day. they only need a
>>few hits on existing addresses to make it worth their while. They,
>>already, have lists of genuine domains. Best defence is a user name so
>>silly, even a computer wouldn't dream it up. :)
>
>
>Total bullshit.


If you say so.


brianWE
Money? Spend it before it is all gone!

"brian w edginton" <edgo1@REMOVETHISbigpond.com> wrote in message
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> They don't need to know your address....their bots shotgun the 'net
> with computer generated addresses. Millions per day. they only need a
> few hits on existing addresses to make it worth their while. They,
> already, have lists of genuine domains.

Not in this case. Swen appears to get it's addresses from recent
Usenet post headers.

> Best defence is a user name so
> silly, even a computer wouldn't dream it up. :)

I can use any name I want with my sub-domain. What little spam I
get is only to a name I once used for a few NG posts last year.
I get no viruses by email at all.

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:20:23 +0100, "Ant" <not@home.today> wrote:

>"brian w edginton" <edgo1@REMOVETHISbigpond.com> wrote in message
>news:jj9smvo3f5aubp4harfcgctmseb74erv79@4ax.com...
>
>> They don't need to know your address....their bots shotgun the 'net
>> with computer generated addresses. Millions per day. they only need a
>> few hits on existing addresses to make it worth their while. They,
>> already, have lists of genuine domains.
>
>Not in this case. Swen appears to get it's addresses from recent
>Usenet post headers.
>
>> Best defence is a user name so
>> silly, even a computer wouldn't dream it up. :)
>
>I can use any name I want with my sub-domain. What little spam I
>get is only to a name I once used for a few NG posts last year.
>I get no viruses by email at all.
>


Yeah....I went back and read it all again. I was talking "spam" in the
advertising  sense.  Too quick on the keyboard, I am afraid.


brianWE
Money? Spend it before it is all gone!

In article <acdsmvgd49u5s5atg4ab5f1n6qc5dvgphh@4ax.com>,
 Bill <wsb312@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:33:44 GMT, brian w edginton
> <edgo1@REMOVETHISbigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> >They don't need to know your address....their bots shotgun the 'net
> >with computer generated addresses. Millions per day. they only need a
> >few hits on existing addresses to make it worth their while. They,
> >already, have lists of genuine domains. Best defence is a user name so
> >silly, even a computer wouldn't dream it up. :)
> 
> Total bullshit.

Actually, not.  I've gotten a few spam emails that had "group" headers 
with multiple names in them, and it was really obvious that it was a 
randomizer (there was no user cirbx or cirbz on the system at the time, 
but the email was addresses to them, too, as well as about a dozen on 
either side of my username).

They pretty much stopped doing this because it's, well, stupid.  You can 
get millions of email addresses in much more reasonable ways.

-- 
cirby at cfl.rr.com

Remember: Objects in rearview mirror may be hallucinations.
Slam on brakes accordingly.

In article <n1rsmvobgd9mphvj1ths9hmho10j4gfeol@4ax.com>,
 Bill <blevins@ihatemimes.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 03:24:04 GMT, Chad Irby <cirby@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> >Actually, not.  I've gotten a few spam emails that had "group" headers 
> >with multiple names in them
> 
> It was Gibe.

No, it was "real" spam.  Plain old text email.  Ad for a sex site.

No viral/worm payload.

It was also a couple of years ago, before Gibe hit the world.

-- 
cirby at cfl.rr.com

Remember: Objects in rearview mirror may be hallucinations.
Slam on brakes accordingly.

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 04:31:19 GMT, Chad Irby <cirby@cfl.rr.com> wrote:

>In article <n1rsmvobgd9mphvj1ths9hmho10j4gfeol@4ax.com>,
> Bill <blevins@ihatemimes.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 03:24:04 GMT, Chad Irby <cirby@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >Actually, not.  I've gotten a few spam emails that had "group" headers 
>> >with multiple names in them
>> 
>> It was Gibe.
>
>No, it was "real" spam.  Plain old text email.  Ad for a sex site.
>
>No viral/worm payload.
>
>It was also a couple of years ago, before Gibe hit the world.


I'm still getting 15-20 a day. Advertising ones...with addresses
around mine.
Only had the "MS" email once as far as I know.


What's the thing thats hitting my firewall 5-6 times a minute? Port135
if I remember correctly....BigPond says it is Blaster.???
Had over 2000 today.


brianWE
Money? Spend it before it is all gone!

"Bill" <wsb312@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:49gpmvg70q7nq2vq4akajlo2ekm9uptbe3@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:52:53 GMT, brian w edginton
> <edgo1@REMOVETHISbigpond.com> wrote:
>
> >When you say you were hit 1000 times, do you men you received 1000
> >emails or had hits on your firewall?
>
> He means he received 1000 copies.
>
>
> >I have been getting around 3000 of those per day. Bigpond said it is
> >the Blaster virus.
>
>
> Bigpond doesn't know what they're talking about.

Do they ever know........welcome to Bogpond.