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    Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members? —Jude Beaudin
   <snip> The thing that pisses me of is the subject keeps changing every so often so an email rule only lasts so long. Maybe it really is a patch and it will make my PC work even better. ;-) Does anybody know what virus is in these emails? I just keep (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members? —Tim Courtney
     (...) I've been getting them for some time too. My server admin is busy installing some spam blocking software, but I don't know if it will block that. I've set up several filter rules for this crap, though. I purchased SpamKiller before McAfee (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members? —Dan Boger
     (...) I've been using spamassassin (woo, free!) for a while now, and it has been catching these (and almost all other) spam. (...) and now you'll get more - you post the email address on the web, trust me, something will harvest it. (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members? —Tim Courtney
     (...) I'll look into it. (...) Yeah, I figured :\ It is also on the BrickMedia website. When I set up a new personal site at a new domain later this year, I won't publish the email at all on the web. Instead, I'll set up a contact form on the site (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members? —Dan Boger
      (...) good - less of a chance it would be used to spam other people then :) You should never set up an email sending form that gives the user any control over where it's sent to. :) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members? —Ahui Herrera
     (...) You could do what I have done with my secondary yahoo email account (rolly_dog2000@yahoo.com) UNLESS the subject line as a special 4 alphanumeric code in it at the very beginning the messeage gets deleted and into the trashbox! So far I have (...) (21 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members? —Tim Strutt
   (...) I extracted one of those files a couple weeks back and scanned it. It is: Win32.Gibe.B worm. I've had probably a dozen emails with similar LUGNET lists of recipients, but from several different sources. Play well. Tim Strutt (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

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