i am getting a load of email at the moment (from 4am last night) that in the
subject line are written in german, then a link is provided in the main body
of email.

Its very annoying, last hour has been quiet tho.

I use Trend micro for virus protection, updates every 3 hours, and that
sorts out spyware too.

Stuart
"Kate Brown" wrote in message
...
In article , dated Sun, 15 May
2005, "Keith (Southend)" wrote
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)?


yes, both of them, every week, and Etrust antivirus updated every day. I
don't think it's me that's infected , or the pattern would be different in
addition, I ran everything yesterday, so this morning's infestation is not
likely to have come from me). It may be some infernal combination of the
newsgroups I subscribe to plus the fact I've been in newsgroups for years,
but I still think there's a connection with the Berlin server somewhere.

--
Kate B

PS 'elvira' is spamtrapped - please reply to 'elviraspam' at cockaigne if
you want
to reply personally