Kate Brown wrote:
Is it just me, or is anyone else getting major email attacks? I had
over 3000 about ten days ago and it seems to be beginning again. The
pattern is consistent: they are all addressed to
and they all come from rubbishnames
(ie something like 8DJsNICFwn) at another domain, often another demon
one, but always a domain belonging to a contributor to uk.sci.weather.
I've had hundreds from something purporting to be Mike Tullett, for
example, and one of today's batches comes from coyney.demon.co.uk.

I'm not accusing anybody of spam attacks! Other batches come from
giganews and individual.net, so in fact, it looks as if there's a
problem in Germany somewhere. Turnpike bounces everything
automatically, so I haven't actually looked at any of them - some of
last week's carried viruses, but today's batch are just URL carriers.
Has anyone else had anything like this?


That's one hell of a lot of e-mails. I had the individual.net + sober
virus last week, probably about 100, however, that's all stopped now,
and funnily enough that was via a demon.co.uk account, not any others.
Sounds to be like you are getting SPAM which may have been harvested via
a spy ware trogan or something, hence using names that you are familiar
with.
Do you use 'Search & Destroy' and 'AdAware' on top of your virus
software (Norton or AVG)?

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net


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