How's the latest mailbomb virus going?

[Doug Freyburger]

Since I think Thursday last week, my yaho.com address has been
receiving more and more copies of a virus/worm. It claims to
be from Microsoft and it has an attached .exe file. I even
know someone who got sucked in and clicked it, and who now
needs to reinstall.

I've seen discussion of it in more than one newsgroup. It
appears to reap UseNet postings for the victims to send itself
to. And it uses the same list for its "From " lines because
I'm getting almost as many bounces as I am copies of the worm
directly. Of course many of the bounces has a copy of the
worm, too, chuckle.

It doesn't infect Unix boxes of course. But it isn't being
autodeleted by many sites yet.

So far I've found most of the words common to its varients
and set up filters on my yahoo.com account, but that only
sends them to my Trash folder. There are enough that the
account spends most of its time at its quota. I empty the
trash plenty of times per day.

Does anyone know how to set a Yahoo filter to really delete
incoming messages rather than sending them to the Trash folder?
Even better, does anyone know how to set a Yahoo filer to
drop any attachements? Without the attachements the size is
trivial and I wouldn't be at quota most of the time.

Thanks in advance,
Doug Freyburger

[Barry Margolin]

In article <7960d3ee.0309220810.2aeae585@posting.google.com >,
Doug Freyburger <dfreybur@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Does anyone know how to set a Yahoo filter to really delete
>incoming messages rather than sending them to the Trash folder?

I suggest you ask Yahoo technical support -- this doesn't seem to be a Unix
question.

--
Barry Margolin, [email]barry.margolin@level3.com[/email]
Level(3), Woburn, MA
*** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups.
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[Doug Freyburger]

Barry Margolin wrote:

> Doug Freyburger wrote:
>

> > Does anyone know how to set a Yahoo filter to really delete
> > incoming messages rather than sending them to the Trash folder?

>
> I suggest you ask Yahoo technical support -- this doesn't seem to
> be a Unix question.

Great suggestion. I've looked through their web interface and
there's no "Contact us" option. Does anyone know how to contact
their technical support?

The mail bomb worm/virus attack keeps coming. It uses NNTP or it draws
its target addresses from news articles stored on infected machines.
Most e-mail is routed through Unix machines. So this is partially
meta-discussion of the UseNet environment including this group and
partially indirect discussion of what folks are doing virus scanning on
the messages passing through their Unix boxes.

[Jaime Cardoso]

I have my mail server on a Play Station 2 With FreeBSD installed. Maybee
you can call Sony for support

//JaimeC

Doug Freyburger wrote:

> Barry Margolin wrote:
>

>>Doug Freyburger wrote:
>>
>>

>>>Does anyone know how to set a Yahoo filter to really delete
>>>incoming messages rather than sending them to the Trash folder?

>>
>>I suggest you ask Yahoo technical support -- this doesn't seem to
>>be a Unix question.

>
>
> Great suggestion. I've looked through their web interface and
> there's no "Contact us" option. Does anyone know how to contact
> their technical support?
>
> The mail bomb worm/virus attack keeps coming. It uses NNTP or it draws
> its target addresses from news articles stored on infected machines.
> Most e-mail is routed through Unix machines. So this is partially
> meta-discussion of the UseNet environment including this group and
> partially indirect discussion of what folks are doing virus scanning on
> the messages passing through their Unix boxes.