some a$$hole keeps sending me viruses by mail!!!

CyberGhost

I'm soo pissed!

some one systematically is sending me viruses from different mails!

today i received from online@tesco.co.uk and -01@som.freestuffwizard.com


Is it possble to trace or do something about it?

i keep getting them, and they are all from different addresses!

mneylon

Sorry to disappoint you, but you are not being targetted specifically.
There are a number of highly active viruses in the wild at present that forge the from address and are sending themselves to every email address they can get from infected machines.

Solution: Make sure you have an up to date AV or that you use hosting provider that offers AV filtering.

CyberGhost

Thanks man!

phew! and I started making a list of people who i pissed off for the last couple of month

btw, know any free email that supports, smtp, pop3, and virus filtering?

mneylon

Free - no
Paid - yes

CyberGhost

not a problem, any recommendations for paid accounts?

soiaf

There is a service that is free and has anti-virus, anti-spam etc.
but.... its a test system for Novell, so they regularly update server software
etc. so you may experience downtime etc.

Its

www.myrealbox.com

Gordon

I got over 50 virus emails today from the redlof. or whatever it's called.

Sometimes you get none sometimes you get a tidal wave. But always have an Anti Virus. Even if it does pop up every single time you get a virus and the pop up window of the software interrupts your writing of an email or editing a picture 50 times. It's still worth it.

Tom Dunne

Originally posted by CyberGhost
not a problem, any recommendations for paid accounts?

Yahoo has damn good spam/virus filtering. I don't use the paid account, but if it is as good as the free account, then that's all you need.

It's about $20 a year, AFAIK.

rom1

I decided to go for a paid email account lately because I couldn't find a free account good enough for my needs!

I have finally subscribed to FastMail.FM . I am a full user.

Their spam filtering (based on SpamAssasin) and virus scanning settings are very advanced: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/faqparts/SpamSettings.htm

They also have a very active coummunity of users: http://www.emailaddresses.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?forumid=27

If you subscribe, please mention me as a referer. My username is romaing :rolleyes:

If it's not the best email provider around, it's one of the top three!

TeRmInAlCrAzY

We use

http://www.swishmail.com/

Doesn't block spam (we have to be careful there - don't want to lose business emails), but it does block viruses.

Business class service. Lots of bandwidth, storage space and 30 pop accounts. More expensive though.

BTW, check out popfile (http://popfile.sourceforge.net/) for spam filtering - I love it!

rgds

Alan

greglo23

you should also check out mailwasher pro from here !!http://www.firetrust.com/products/pro/?PHPSESSID=44f209ac2da301f7a52c08b37ba563e0

CH

This Irish hosting provider offers spam and virus filtering as standard with their basic package... €80

That includes web space etc, so I think it's a good deal. (I don't work for/know them!)


Some spam irony: today, someone beside me in work received a spam mail offering a spam filter!?!