RE: [OT] I wish so many people didnt have me in their address books :-(

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Keith,

You don't seem to have too much of a problem there... :

My sister runs her own small business, they have one info@...... email
address.
She phoned me last Sunday evening about having 'lots of email' and 'not
being able to download it all'.

I had a look with PopCorn (great little email prog) and there were over
1,500 emails.
Interesting as she normally averages one a day.
Most of them 1400+ where the SoBig.F virus (kindly flagged by
SpamAssassin),
A few other screensaver viri, a load of 491 spam, P*nis enlargement
products, Viagra,
and 1 genuine email from a potential customer.

Since Sunday there's been another 500+ in the same vein.

All very sad really.

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Doxey [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 30 August 2003 10:29
To: UKHA Discussion (E-mail)
Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] I wish so many people didnt have me in their
address books :-(


Hi All,

How many others are receiving huge numbers of emails with the current
round
of viruses?

Mailbox was empty when I went to bed last night.

Just downloaded my email this morning...

20 flagged as virus
1 flagged as spam
2 spams that werent flagged

1 advert from e-buyer
1 noticification of a new antivirus update

20 messages on the lists that I am subscribed to.

for a few days the number of virus infected mails dropped but the other
day
my initial download had 69 copies of viruses followed by a further 20 or
so
during the evening:-(

I dont seem to have received as many "undeliverable" or "you
sent and
infected file" messages recently so it looks as if I'm not being
spoofed
as
the sender now but this is getting beyond a joke :-(

On a plus side... the spam and virus filtering at Rapid Hoster is doing an
excellent job of identifying the unwanted messages. A few spams do get
missed but it has found every virus mail and had not marked something as
dodgy when it was a genuine mail. After a few weeks of having suspect mail
put in a junk folder, I am so pleased with the fact it doesnt trap wanted
mail that I have now changed the rule to stuff tehm straight into deleted
items.

There.... got that off my chest :-)

Keith

www.diyha.co.uk
www.kat5.tv



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