Re: [CH] OT Klez rears its ugly head again

AndyB (quark@erols.com)
Wed, 04 Sep 2002 18:12:43 -0400

Mary,

I use Mailwasher and eliminate virtually all of the spam (www.mailwasher.net).

AndyB


Mary Going wrote:
> 
> Oh, My, God! I get hundreds of these every day. It drives me crazy. I also
> get hundreds of spams, and the other day, I got 124 emails with virus
> attachments. For each one, I had to hit "delete" ENTER, ENTER ENTER in
> Norton to tell it what to do. My computer was frozen until I finished
> receiving all this JUNK mail. (I now have Norton set up to just delete them
> instead of asking me what to do.)
> 
> It's gotten to the point where I am probably deleting legitimate email
> because I have so much filtered right into the trash, and then for the rest
> of it, I delete so fast, trying to get rid of all the spam... Blah blah
> blah. It makes me want to eliminate email all together.
> 
> As for an on-topic thing: I got a call today from Florida Today who is
> doing a story on hot foods. They interviewed me, plus several other people
> (any of you?). The article will appear in this Thursday's paper in the
> People section of floridatoday.com
> 
> - mary
> 
> At 01:44 PM 9/3/02 -0700, Brent Thompson wrote:
> > > I've been getting 3 or 4 Klezzies a day for a couple months now, none of
> > > them have to my knowledge come from this list.
> >
> >Ditto for me, since many months.  But klez seems to forge all the header
> >lines, so no idea where they really come from.  (I've even gotten
> >klez-infected e-mail from MAILER-DAEMON, bounced from unknown addressee
> >with me as original sender, and I can guarantee my non-MIME unix mailer is
> >not sending out klez or any other virus.)
> >  ---   Brent
> 
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