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by dmiles
Recently many companies and individuals have been hit by email bombs due to Sircam virus (http://bizpartner.com.my/news71.htm). They have been receiving large number of emails, each with large attachment. What happens is that the computer of sender of these virus emails has been infected with Sircam virus, thereby sending out the virus without the sender's knowledge. What's more severe is that, confidential documents (Word and Excel) are sent out as well (therefore the large attachments).
There are a few ways of combating these junk virus emails:
Contact the sender and tell him/her that his/her computer has been infected with virus. Ask the sender to clean it.
Set filter in your email program so that the emails are deleted before downloading.
Use an email remover program to remotely remove the emails without downloading.
Live with the fact and continue receiving megabytes of emails everyday.
Hope that your ISP with do something to filter out the emails.
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by wlbowers
The sick demented individuals that write these things have figured out ways to spoof the from address.
Someone that just has your address in their computer and is infected could be sending emails out with your address.
Someone that has your email address could be infected with a worm that has reported back to moma with your address.
There are several ways you could have been put on this hit list.
Keep your antivirus updated daily. Try to set up some rules in your email program to take them to the trash. A series of phrases in the subject, ect.
I get tons of, returned due to virus, messages that I did not send. I even tracked one to a company that I used to work at by an attachment that was on one of the virus returns.
I called them and the guy that was using my old computer admitted he had 6 virus's that he couldn't get off the computer.
Comment on your email program and we will try to tailor some rules on the typicals that that virus uses.
Good Luck Lee
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