[[Shizo]]

Mates! Do you have this too lately - the 120-140KB virus mails from addresses that are found on the websites you go to?
I had this crap coming to me before, but now it's rediculous - 5-20 of them in a day!

If someone has info on this (what it is and maybe a way to prevent it) please spill it out for me.

[synj]

hehe all 3 email addresses i have are getting flooded with that crap. maybe 40 emails a day for hotmail, and like 10 a day on an address i have never, ever, posted and aren't with public services.

they just find you somehow :/

[ceenda]

I was thinking, they should introduce a charge for sending emails (e.g., like text messaging).

Yeah, it would suck.

But the cost might outway the advantages of mass mailing.

ISPs and Nominet could enforce it... somehow.

[ August 15, 2002: Message edited by: ceenda ]

[THE LAST GOONIE]

as a male, i find it very difficult to avoid opening the 30 odd porn emails that are sent to my inbox, theyr'e so tempting....

[synj]

or just a charge for a massive CC or BCC list alone.

that would also get rid of those lame forwards you get from people you know down the street hehe with jokes like HYUCK HYUCK HERE ARE 20 WAYS TO MAKE PEOPLE MAD AT MCDONALDS OKAY HERE IS MY LIST HYUCK HYUCK

[[Shizo]]

Although more than half spam mailing programs send to each address seporately
There is actually market out there that specializes in sending huge amounts of mail anonymously, scanning web pages for emails, sorting out valid emails etc. A few times i even got spam mails that were selling 2 million emails on CD! Hehe.
And it said "imagine how much your business will grow after advertising your company to 2 million people for only $29.99" blah..

Also synj, the reason you got that poop coming to your "clean" mails is cause people you emails before had opened this virus and it sends itself out i think not only to people on contact list but also searches in exporer cache.. Cause i got a lot of mails from planetquake, polycount, etc although i never emails them directly.

[Giant Hamster]

yeah, i used to get those a lot. haven't in months. ones like:

subject: (no subject)
"this is a game i made
i wish you to enjoy it"

subject: i like your site
"here is mine
I hope you to enjoy it"

subject: how are you?
"this program can help you
I wish you want enjoy it"

[synj]

yah, on my main email now it's getting exponential. i said i get 4 or 5, well now i get about 10 or 15 a day. argh!

[[Shizo]]

It's W32.Klez virus. At least if you believe that VirtualDub guy..