Spam/Mail bombing. What should I do?

[Acill]

, I have been receiving a hell of alot of spam supposedly from MS(and other sources), most of the spam is around 150K in size(it usually contains an .exe attatchment).

I've been getting them every day as well. I think it may have come from the @amiga.org address here. My guess is someone took our addresses off the user list. It seems to have slowed down a lot since I removed my email off my settings.

It is a virus so do not run that exe no matter what!!

[Rigger]

by amigamad on 2003/9/23 6:31:52

you could try this software sa proxy to filter spam its free.

Based on Spam Assassin cool. I run Spam Assassin I my email server and maybe 4 -5 get through per month. It's a great program.

[SilvrDrgn]

Tomas wrote:
I get around 50 of this a day now, its annoying as hell  :-x

Only 50  I get between 150-200 every day!!  The blame for this crap lies not only on the virus/worm writers, but also on that evil empire, stupid arse company called Microsoft.  It's their swiss cheese, crappy software that allows stuff like this to happen!!  If I wasn't using MailWasher Pro, I would want M$ to compensate me for the time it takes to weed through all the crap just so I can read my legitimate Email.  (MailWasher Pro - preview and filter your Email before you ever download it to your PC.  Works great!)

[bhoggett]

Guys, most of the spam at the moment is due to the Swen worm, though it seems to be tailing off a bit now.

I posted a thread called "swendeleter" in this forum, so if you run Windows or Linux it's definitely worth having. It may also run on Amigas with a little tweaking as it's a perl script. What this does is delete the swen mails at the server with no interaction from the user whatsoever. Run it before you download your mail and you will find the larger spam mails have disappeared.

(sorry, I'm too lazy to dig up the URL again)