Jake wrote ...
Okay, so let me make sure I understand- the six or seven emails in my
inbox
titled Postmaster are likely the result of a worm, as are the emails from
MS
Corporation Tech. Assistance that claim to have a security patch?

I haven't opened any of them, because I was suspicious. I only use that
address for USENET, and I have no one in my address book. Also, the
address
is very new, and I was wondering how on earth Microsoft got a hold of it
so
fast.

Micro$oft never send out emails about security patches. They assume you'll
have the update thingy turned on and find out about new patches that way. If
you get such an email, assume it's a virus.

I haven't had any dodgy emails but that's probably something to do with
having a munged email addy so I'm not in anyone's address books.

I use Mailwasher which checks my mail accounts on the pop3 server and I can
choose who are friends and who should be blacklisted, and the blacklisted
ones get bounced. If I think I have a potentially harmful email from someone
who appears to be a friend, I can check the message text and delete it if
necessary. Saves me downloading all that crap.

I got totally bombarded at work over the last month or so with the damn
sobig and blaster stuff. Between the virus emails and the bounces from all
and sundry, I was probably averaging about 50 per day. That's in addition to
all the spam.

blah

A good antivirus programme goes a long way )


Rachel
(New Zealand)