BaphometaS
join:2002-09-10
Mount Juliet, TN | [Spam] Getting Tons of VIRII from this addy
What can I do about it?
pcp09022525pcs.watrfd01.mi.comcast.net[69.244.165.93]
My AVS is catching it but I would love to figure out who or what this is and make them stop! |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA | May I ask, why are you opening SPAM? Or, are you using an email client and it's being downloaded to your computer? |
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freflyin
join:2002-12-19
Denver, CO | If their AV software works anything like mine, viruses are stripped from the email as the email is downloaded to my computer. Once stripped, they are quarantined and thus do not infect my computer. |
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Nerdtalker
Working Hard, Or Hardly Working?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
clubs:
| reply to BaphometaS
That address seems to be spewing a considerable amount of spam: »www.senderbase.org/search?search···4.165.93
What can you do? Tell abuse@comcast.net (don't hold your breath). |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to dadkins
said by dadkins  :May I ask, why are you opening SPAM? Or, are you using an email client and it's being downloaded to your computer? I don't have to open email to find the source IP address. |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA | I don't have this problem(no email client) so I had to ask... didn't know, sorry. |
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BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
clubs:
 ·Comcast
| reply to BaphometaS
I tell ya , I don't know what is not stopping people from starting a hack back group and trying to secure all those machines for the ignorant who won't.
But that would probably be construed as a crime by this government.
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"It's always funny until someone gets hurt......and then it's absolutely friggin' hysterical!" |
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freflyin
join:2002-12-19
Denver, CO
| reply to dadkins
No problem from me dadkins. Many people don't know that their AV can strip viruses, quarantine them and notify them of the virus. MOST of the time it works but when you get slammed with viruses it doesn't always work the way it should and your computer gets infected. I've had that happen five times in the past month. Notified Comcast and was told that no one else was reporting the problem so it was my problem. |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
·Comcast
| It's cool! I only use web based email(no downloading-no client), and on this machine I have avast. (see pic).
My main email is Yahoo(Yahoo uses Norton 2005 to scan email)and the SPAM filter works quite well.
My other machine has Kaspersky Pro 4.5 running full on... no worries there!  |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to freflyin
said by freflyin :No problem from me dadkins. Many people don't know that their AV can strip viruses, quarantine them and notify them of the virus. MOST of the time it works but when you get slammed with viruses it doesn't always work the way it should and your computer gets infected. I've had that happen five times in the past month. Notified Comcast and was told that no one else was reporting the problem so it was my problem. It shouldn't be a problem at all. Even if your mail client is downloading viral mail, it should not be activating the virus. You have something mis-configured, or you are not properly patched.
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Norman
~A deam, dream, no dream
~Voices of the night go across the forest
~A dream, dream, no dream
~Good night my good child |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to dadkins
said by dadkins :It's cool! I only use web based email(no downloading-no client), and on this machine I have avast. (see pic). My main email is Yahoo(Yahoo uses Norton 2005 to scan email)and the SPAM filter works quite well. My other machine has Kaspersky Pro 4.5 running full on... no worries there! Yahoo!'s AV lets viruses through. On this latest virus outbreak, three infected email messages passed their scan. This should not be a problem, even when downloading email with a client. Local on access AV scanning, and properly patched and secured clients should manage things. Only opening suspicious attachments which find their way through all the barriers would be a problem. We don't open suspicious attachments. Do we? Do we??? (BTW, this is not directed at you, personally; but somebody claims that they are getting infected when their email is "overwhelmed". That shouldn't be happening.)
SpamGuard is pretty respectable, but I want an email address for training it.
I may be a bit anachronistic, knowing that 95% of the people on the Internet think that the Web is the Internet, but I prefer using a mail client to web access of my email.
Oh, and I do run a scan with F-Prot for DOS from time to time, but I have no on-access virus scanner running in the background. I have never been infected with virus.
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Norman
~A deam, dream, no dream
~Voices of the night go across the forest
~A dream, dream, no dream
~Good night my good child |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
·Comcast
| Yeah, Yahoo(using Norton 2005) has let through a few... only once here though.
I had an email that I knew was bogus I opened anyways, *MY* AV caught it - before it was opened! Why did I open it? I was bored.  |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| said by dadkins :Yeah, Yahoo(using Norton 2005) has let through a few... only once here though. I had an email that I knew was bogus I opened anyways, *MY* AV caught it - before it was opened! Why did I open it? I was bored. That is the point; that your AV caught a viral attachment, that is. Anybody who gets infected these days has only one excuse; they caught a "Zero-Day" virus, and opened an attachment against the good practices of Safe Hex.
About a year ago I received an attachment with a "Zero-Day" virus. Even after using Symantec's "Intelligent Updater", which is used to manually update Norton AV, and getting the latest definitions, less than 10 hours old, I still didn't get an identification that the attachment was even infected.
Nobody I know sends me email with attachments, I this was from an unknown sender; highly suspicious. So I forwarded the attachment to Symantec for analysis. The result was a notice from Symantec to link to their site for a new set of definitions. It was, indeed, malicious. So I know that, even if I do open a message with an attachment, I won't get infected; as long as I don't actually open the attachment.
I use a client which does not render active content.
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Norman
~A deam, dream, no dream
~Voices of the night go across the forest
~A dream, dream, no dream
~Good night my good child |
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