Virus Emails :/

SoulSkorpion · August 2003

I've taken extra special measures to ensure that my email adress isn't easily visable, as an anti-spam measure. I don't register for anything that doesn't allow you to hide your email (or I use my hotmail account instead), and whenever I post my email in any public place I add stuff to it so that scripts don't pick it up (replacing @ with (at), adding the words NO SPAM to the email).

But for some reason, this past week I've been getting all these blatantly obvious virus emails. My antivirus is picking thme up just fine, but it's getting to be a real pain in the arse to have to wait for the damn things to download, and to click "ok" ten times to all VET's "this email's got a virus in it!" messages. The thing is, I can't block the adresses because they from a whole bunch of random ones. Anyone know any way of stopping them? :/

Unknown · August 2003

Well, my e-mail is the same, I'm going to change it soon. I tried blocking as well but they keep coming <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

Washuu · August 2003

ive gotten some virus emails in my hotmail, - hotmail for me, i never get spam, or ads...
but now i get like one virus email per day, i havent openned or touched any of them... the attachments.. but it is getting annoying
- i can tell its that virus cause it has that weird attachment

Dubbilex · August 2003

Disconnect yourself from the intarweb and use the postal service. It's a simple as 1-2-3!

Xanieth · August 2003

Spammers shall never reach 1337h@x0r.net! (That's my actual email address.. my buddy has the domain x0r.net and has the email addy h@x0r.net <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> )

Gadzuko · August 2003

This is why I own a webserver, and have 3 different email addresses. Obvious spammer, suspected spammer, and... umm... friends. Those are the only people I trust not to spam me.

Well, that and that whole "web design company" crap. But that's just a sideline to get me the email addresses.

DOOManiac · August 2003

I for one, am glad that all the script kiddie virus makers these days are happy with simple crap like spamming your inbox or deleting .avi's, and only on Windows systems. Now, a virus that makes your hard drive head scratch the platter, or screw up your bios now that's a bad virus. Good thing most virii writers are too lazy to do that kinda hard stuff anymore. :P

Gadzuko · August 2003

The good virus writers got to be too mature to do it any more... I think there are very very few actual virus <i>writers</i> out there any more. 99% of what goes as viruses is just script kiddies thinking they're cool because they can do tracert, a DNS lookup and edit basic code.

SoulSkorpion · August 2003

I've got a feeling that there's one going around at the moment, and that's why...

KeitaroSempai · August 2003

CIH virus...that sucked when I got it a few years back @.@

MonsieurEvil · August 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Aug 26 2003, 01:59 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I for one, am glad that all the script kiddie virus makers these days are happy with simple crap like spamming your inbox or deleting .avi's, and only on Windows systems. Now, a virus that makes your hard drive head scratch the platter, or screw up your bios now that's a bad virus. Good thing most virii writers are too lazy to do that kinda hard stuff anymore. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
No just too lazy, but too stupid. Welcome to Generation D, where they don't even bother to write good viruses. If only you guys had gone through the NYB virus or ILoveYou worm in the mid-nineties...

Majin · August 2003

I feel your pain MONSE I went throught it.
OMG, how could you bring up that memory!

As for emails
I was being flooded with emails all "return-to-sender", "post-master".....
Crap from my website email address, thank god it all went into my junk box, but it was still around 50 messages a day, most were 100kb size!
I just went BLOCK crazy! and had the address at the site removed.

BOZO · August 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MonsieurEvil @ Aug 26 2003, 02:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Aug 26 2003, 01:59 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I for one, am glad that all the script kiddie virus makers these days are happy with simple crap like spamming your inbox or deleting .avi's, and only on Windows systems. Now, a virus that makes your hard drive head scratch the platter, or screw up your bios now that's a bad virus. Good thing most virii writers are too lazy to do that kinda hard stuff anymore. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
No just too lazy, but too stupid. Welcome to Generation D, where they don't even bother to write good viruses. If only you guys had gone through the NYB virus or ILoveYou worm in the mid-nineties...  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
ohhh I did! I did!

Jasp · August 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>No just too lazy, but too stupid. Welcome to Generation D, where they don't even bother to write good viruses. If only you guys had gone through the NYB virus or ILoveYou worm in the mid-nineties... </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>

hehe i was around when the ILoveYou virus was big news good job i only had a P-75 back then with no internet lol.

Anyway back on topic your choices are to setup a filter in outlook to sort all messages with attachments into a folder so u can just delete them......altho u still have to download em.

Secound choice and the most scary one switch to AOL with thier ISP virus filters....told u scary, i heard BT openworld has virus filters to but im not sure on that one.

Thansal · August 2003

use telnet/SSH <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

virii whats that?
If I get an email with an attachment I never see the atachment unless I wana <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

and as for Iloveyu, yup was there for that (on an ISDN line infact <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>)
again, never was touched <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

I have always ussed telent till my dad's decided to switch his server over to SSH, and now I use PuTTY <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

combine all this with a fire wall and you are basicaly set <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

either that or use a MAC <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Now thats why I hate Virii auths, they only attack win machines.
Duhhhh w|d0wz iz 3vil s0 i guna puitem ota werk

now you snot-nosed-prepubesant-twit all your gona do is make a bunch of poor shmoes who use win machines scream in anger............

DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

thankyouverymuchandhaveagoodday:)

Virus Emails :/

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