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Annoying e-mails with attachments..........

Mar 24, 2004 6:23PM PST

Hi, a while ago a friend of mine on my contact list had a virus. He said that he sorted it out ok and then I started getting silly e-mails from people in his contact list who I never have contact with. Messages such as 'Is this your password', 'Look at this', etc etc, you know the score, and they all had attachments. Obviously some sort of virus going around so I just blocked and deleted every one. But now, about 3-4 weeks later, I am still getting these e-mails every day from totally obscure e-mails with the usual attachments. There must be a lot of naive people out there who keep opening these attachments and passing on viruses, but is there anyway I can stop these appearing in my inbox every day. Is there some programme from Symantec that can help?
ME, IE 6, OExpress 6, NAV Corporate Edition
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Re:Annoying e-mails with attachments..........
Mar 24, 2004 9:14PM PST

Short of getting every Outlook Express user in the world to use a more secure client, not a chance.

The other equally impossible way would be to get Microsoft to create a reasonably secure version of Outlook Express and get people to use that.

You're pretty much just going to have to suffer for the stupidity of others, no two ways about it. You can however, use something other than Outlook Express yourself so that you can be sure you're not contributing to this problem unwittingly like these other people. Do your part to make the Internet a more secure place.

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Re:Annoying e-mails with attachments..........
Mar 25, 2004 4:39AM PST

Ghost,

In addition to "Yew's" suggestion, you might want to try a program called "Mailwasher". It's free and stops various types of SPWAM and virus messages from entering the "inbox" of your e-mail client. Here's the link:

http://www.mailwasher.net/

Hope this helps.

Grif