Bloody Outlook Express viruses!
Aug. 31st, 2002 06:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baratronI have one particular email address that is very prone to receiving virus mail. Don't know why that one in particular. Yesterday, I decided I was sick of going through deleting virus-infested messages by hand, and set up a mail filter in pine to drop everything sent to that address into a separate folder.
Today, I opened my "Potentially Spam" folder to discover that I had received 717 virus emails in 22 hours. 708 of them from the same person. Erk. 708 x 40k makes... 28MB? Yikes!
I wonder if I can tell my ISP to bounce back everything sent from that address? I'm sure I can set up the local machine to drop it all in /dev/null, but maybe if the idiot whose Outlook Express is sending this stuff out got 700 bounce messages a day, she might clean up her machine.
Oh, hang on - I'm crediting lusers with common sense *sigh*.
Today, I opened my "Potentially Spam" folder to discover that I had received 717 virus emails in 22 hours. 708 of them from the same person. Erk. 708 x 40k makes... 28MB? Yikes!
I wonder if I can tell my ISP to bounce back everything sent from that address? I'm sure I can set up the local machine to drop it all in /dev/null, but maybe if the idiot whose Outlook Express is sending this stuff out got 700 bounce messages a day, she might clean up her machine.
Oh, hang on - I'm crediting lusers with common sense *sigh*.