it is like someone has turned the tap on full.

No not the snow, spam.

Gone up by a whole order of magnitude it has.

Every last one of them seems to have some sort of virus(*ii, *a, *um,
**** the lot of you) and all of them to proper names rather than
dont_spam@ or whatever it usually is.

Weird.

Is this me finally catching up with the last round or me being early in
the latest?

 

3 new virii appeared yesterday.
All of them pick names from the address books of the infected machines and
start sending mails by the bucketload
MyDoom seems the most prolific of them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3432639.stm
--
Alex

Sig missing , presumed formatted

FAQ monitor for u.p.c.e.
www.upce.org.uk

 

Well they won't get my fucking clara addy. That was my cunning
plan all along, see.

 

Dr Zoidberg wrote

Hey, early on in the game. Rockin'.

 

Doc Gonz0 wrote

that explains it then.

 

Seems like it explains Des, too.

 

Well that`s just solved that problem then.

Just deleted the entire address book.


--
Petel .
02 M2 Buell.
C90-ZZR.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peteh1/website/index.html

 

Petel wrote

That is only a partial solution I am afraid, You have to delete your
dictionary as well.

 

I've just had about 150 mails with my website extension and a random name at
the begining. eg
Kin PITA.

 

I just had my first ever microsoft patch email.

 

There's yet another virus just appeared , or so the BBC say.
--
Tim two#21, YGL#3 & BOTAFOT#84

Due to the limitations of current email, the lip movements may be
out of synchronisation as you move your finger under the text while reading.

tim dot ukrm2 at dsl dot pipex dot com

 

Linger wrote

That's the crocodile.

 

While you're at it, format your hard drive, it'll cure a lot more problems
to boot.

--
Muck
Bandit 600n(With added ducktape); CG125(MSOHPR)
"CG125 the most fun you can have at Mach 0.08539"
DS#1 ; DOMO# ; SH#2 ; ICQ: 166144431
Remove _TEETH_ to e-mail

 

I just changed from NTL to PlusNet [1], and have suddenly dropped from
200 spams a day to 4 a week.

FWIW, my ntl mail accounts were never used for general Internet use at
all. I use my SpamCop one for that.

[1] there was no cable here.