Re: Can one stop attachments to prevent DOS attack?

From: Dr. David Kirkby (see_my_signature_for_my_real_address_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/26/03

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    "Dr. David Kirkby" <see-my-signiture-for-email-address@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:<3F6E6096.73106623@nowhere.com>...
    > Hi,
    > I'm running a Sun Ultra 80 with Solaris 9. I only has a slow internet
    > connection (56 k), as there is no economic way to obtain a faster one in
    > this rural location.
    >
    > For the last few days I have noticed the LED on the modem which lights
    > during downloads, is on nearly all the time. Now I'm getting emails from
    > my ISP saying my mailbox is nearly full.
    >
    > I've now traced the problem. I'm getting sent the blinking Microsoft
    > Security Update patches on average about every 4 minutes.

    Does anyone have a clue when (if) this frigging thing is likely to
    stop ?

    I seem to be getting quite a few messages from remote servers saying
    they have removed the virus attachment - some of which don't, but my
    own ISP (ntlworld) seems quite happy to send me thousands of copies
    per day of the thing. I deleted 13,000 copies in 3-days, but have now
    convigured all viruses to go to /dev/null, so I don't know how many
    I'm getting.

    At this minute I don't have the time to start installing popsneaker or
    other software, so are taking the easy option of just downloading the
    files every few minutes and sending them to /dev/null. It hardly seems
    a sensible long-term solution, but I guess I can with a bit of effort
    install a better solution. But I'm reasonably computer literatte and
    have a UNIX box. How on earth is the average Windoze user going to
    stop it, or is it expected to die a natural death?

    If it gathers email postings from usenet, as it widely publicised, I
    assume its's database can't go back to the year dot, otherwise the
    data file containing the addresses would have to be huge. So I'm
    hoping if I don't bother posting under my real address, it will
    eventually leave me alone.

    Despite the fact I've posted to nesgroups with this email address for
    only a few days, the hotmail account is already overfull, so messages
    are bouncing. Hopefully if enough messages get bounced from
    everywhere, the ISP's like NTL who are happpy to forward on the
    viruses will wake up and realise it's not in their interest to do
    nothing.

    Dr. David Kirkby.

    Real e-mail address at:
    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/drkirkby/home-email.gif

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