email attack

I just received a test message from Jim C. via the Tailwind list
at yahoo groups.

Jim said he hasn't heard a mumblin' word from ANYBODY on the list
in 5 or 6 days.

Richard

I got hit hard by the same email attack a few days ago. Just got tons and
tons of emails, all containing a 150K attachment that Norton said had a
virus. Was out of town a couple of days, and the mailbox on my ISP filled
up. Agent does a wonderful job of weeding things out, but if I don't
download the emails, they just stay on the server until it's plugged.

Read that the virus was different from the standard variety...it didn't
access the address book of the infected party, it went for some Spammer's
mailing list that was accessible via the net. That's why we got tons of
repeats.

Put in about 20 different filters, and things are a lot calmer now. I'll
probably gradually subtract a filter or two as things go along here, and
see if the flood comes back.

Ron Wanttaja