salsa-king

As some know i know havea web baseed Email business.. neoquip.com

I'm finding over the last a week a LOAD of Emails.. say 20+ a day
coming to my info@neoquip.com etc accounts.

Most say in the subject line.
check this screen saver out
or
re: Thank You
or
Re: Your account
or
re: Wicked Screen saver
or
Re: your application

all something like that.

Not every one has an attachment!!!

These come from verious email address.. not just the same one.
most seem to be from Hotmail.com accounts.

Each time I get them.. I perminantly DELETE them.. I don't open any attachments from them either!

the other day i deleted my whole Inbox by misstake.. when perminantly removing these spam Emails!!


R these Emails VIRUS'?

How can i stop them?

anyone else getting them.. where they from.. what can i do?

Phil
I run AVG Anti Virus.. everyday.

darlodge

We are getting a few hundered a day. but Our virus scanner (Trend OfficeScan) stops them before the users seem them. They are being sent because of the sobig.f virus

Darren

salsa-king

how can I stop them?

Phil

Figment

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sobige.html

salsa-king

reading that now thanks.. do i have to buy the anti virus fromthen tho?

Hanslow

Phil, that'll stop your PC sending them out if you have the virus. It won't stop them being sent to you.

Only way round it is to get in touch with EVERYONE that has your email address and make sure they have and run a virus checker to make sure their PC is clean.

Figment

You can follow the instructions for manual recovery towards the end of the instructions, or you can download an Evaluation Copy of SAV, but as Hanslow says, that will protect you from being infected, but not stop the virus being sent out from other machines that have your email address in their address book.

[Edited by Figment - 8/29/2003 9:41:59 PM]

salsa-king

But i'm not sending them out.. am i?

There coming in from other PC's!?

Phil

ChrisB

Phil,

There's nothing you can do to stop receiving them. If people have visited your web site and get infected, that alone is enough for you end up getting these virus mails.

Just keep deleting them.

Chris.

Hanslow

If they are coming in to your inbox, then they are more than likely from an outside source. Would seem pretty pointless for the virus to send an email to itself to try and infect itself again.

Don't know how you can track down where they have come from. You might be able to let your ISP know and they might be able to track them back, but given how widespread it is, they may be either not bothered or swamped already.

Unfortunately, given your company having an email address, you can't be sure how many people have your email address in their address book and as a result you could be getting them from anywhere.


[Edited by Hanslow - 8/29/2003 11:16:08 PM]

elgordano

setup an inbox rule, if you can, to delete them when they arrive. i know outlook can do this.

Gordo