Another SWEN coming in every hour

You should at least forward it to:

junkmail.DeleteThis@earthlink.net

Also, if you're using Outlook Express you can use both "Rules" and "Block
Sender" to reduce the influx.

"Knack" <zok9.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Set up an Earthlink account 10 days ago and am still getting swamped
> with new SWEN mail. It's rendered my E-mail reception almost useless.
> Earthlink will not filter it out, and their standard automated replies
> to abuse.DeleteThis@eartlink.net only say to go look for help somewhere else
>
> The rate that I'm getting additional SWEN messages is horrific! And as
> you know, the SWEN worm attachments are large so it slows down my
> Internet connection whenever they get downloaded.
>
> Earthlink will do nothing about it, even though it's overwhelming their
> mail server. So stupid. Why? What's wrong with them?
>
> What for me to do apart from dumping Earthlink?
>
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It works partially. The virus "rotates" it's return address randomly, but
for awhile it slows down the flow. The mail "Rules" handle most of the
rest. Note: You may have to mark a certain number of "subjects" and "from"
as not spam and to be sent to the "In" box, and to override the other rules.
That will minimize any of the anti-virus rules deleting real e-mail that you
want.
"W. Blevins" <wblevins RemoveThis @NOMORESWENmchsi.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 00:45:06 GMT, "Adam A. Wanderer"
> <M14m RemoveThis @earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >Also, if you're using Outlook Express you can use both "Rules" and "Block
> >Sender" to reduce the influx.
>
> Poor advice. Block sender isn't going to work on Swen.
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Despite being inundated in Swen, Knack was just barely able to send out
<3F7B65CC.980A27DB.DeleteThis@hotmail.com>, on Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:36:50 -0500:

> Set up an Earthlink account 10 days ago and am still getting swamped
> with new SWEN mail.
> [...]
> What for me to do apart from dumping Earthlink?

Here:

I wrote earlier, in another conference, this:

> I use netscape. I told it to download only the first 20K
> of a message. This leaves the message on the server.
> If you want to delete the messages without downloading
> their full bodies, remove them from your Inbox (delete
> them or whatever) and select "Get New Messages."
>
> Also, be sure to configure NS to use POP and to delete
> messages from the server.
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Hi Bart!

"Bart Bailey" <bartman DeleteThis @nethere.net> wrote in message
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> In Message-ID:<vMQeb.36608$gv5.20360@fed1read05> posted on Thu, 2 Oct
> 2003 00:57:48 -0700, Jan Il wrote:
>
> >Well...I have been tracking the OE6 Message
> >rules, and changing the rules to address various and sundry variations of
> >this junk, and I'll tell ya this...this stuff don't pay one dang bit of
> >attention to the majority of the OE Rules anymore. It's like it's been
> >programmed to over ride the most widely used ones. Especially the ones
that
> >deal with the attachment issue, your e-mail address, certain words in the
> >From, Subject Line, Message Body.....nothing. It won't delete them, it
> >won't send them to the delete box, it won't delete them from the server
> >first, it is simply ignoring these all of these Rules.
> >
> >So...this is not a sure fire protection plan either.
>
> I don't know if OE allows filtration for words occurring in the body,
> but if you can filter against "HTML" you will get 90 some odd percent of
> it.

As I have tried to explain, I have had numerous Message Rules in place, as
well as mail and newsgroup settings set according to one of your own experts
....and I have had only 2-3 of the Swen messages within the last 3 days.
But, as of 4:00 this afternoon, I got a sudden large influx of them, and 90%
were those what I had set rules to block and they had been working well.
But, suddenly, they were no longer working to block the messages. They were
obviously over riding the rules. That is what I am trying to explain. It is
not a matter of my not knowing how to set the rules, or what to do, or not
having proper AV or the other, it is a matter of the thing seems to have
found a way to over ride the the message rules. It is just suddenly
ignoring them. THAT is what I am trying to tell say.

I am just trying to pass on a piece of information that I have experienced,
but, obviously it is easier to chalk it up to my ignornace.



>
> --
>
> Bart
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Knack pounced upon this pigeonhole and pronounced:
> Set up an Earthlink account 10 days ago and am still getting swamped
....
> Earthlink will do nothing about it, even though it's overwhelming their
> mail server. So stupid. Why? What's wrong with them?
>
> What for me to do apart from dumping Earthlink?

It doesn't matter who your ISP is. You're shooting yourself in the foot by
posting your email address in the clear in Usenet. Swen harvests addresses
from Usenet. See this public information from google groups:

From: Knack (zok9@hotmail.com)
Subject: Re: Antibiotics for upper respiratory illness
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.health+behav
Date: 2003-08-29 13:36:30 PST

Do you use your earthlink address in Usenet as well? Or have this hotmail
address forwarded to earthlink?

One of my ISPs - AT&T Worldnet - has dozens of posts worded almost exactly
like yours. "What's wrong with my ISP?"

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"W. Blevins" <wblevins RemoveThis @NOMORESWENmchsi.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 02:34:15 -0700, "Jan Il" <janilac RemoveThis @nospam.invalid>
> wrote:
>
> >Hmm...excuse me...but... is there a part of 'don't work' you do not
> >understand? Despite what you and some others here may think, I am not
> >totally stupid. Yes, I might be,

> Apparently, because it does work.

Whoa! Boy! ..do you like to take things out of context. Well...now here's a
real good word for ya..if you're gonna quote me, cowboy, you best make DAMN
sure you get the facts straight! Got it!!

NOOOO...I does NOT...not any more.....not for everyone at this point, you
bullheaded moron. That is what I am trying to tell you! And if you weren't
such an egotistical ass, you might just sit back and see what is going on.
But, jerks like you have to be right all the time, even when they are wrong.

This is why I make it a point never to engage in a duel of wits with the
unarmed.

Plonk!
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"Jan Il" <janilac RemoveThis @nospam.invalid> wrote in message news:C5Teb.36904$gv5.34367@fed1read05...

> Plonk!

Be sure to let us know if Bill manages to evade your killfile settings.
I'm sure someone here can help with an appropriate ruleset. ;O)
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