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Anyone still get tonnes of viruses?

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  • 03-07-2004 6:57pm
    #1
    Crotch Chop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭


    I still get e-mailed about 30-50 viruses per day.

    I have a "catch-all" for 4 domain names, but it's seriously getting tiring now. Never used to happen until a few months ago. My AVG antivirus stops them all, but is there any way to make them stop arriving in the first place?


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    greglo23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭greglo23


    try this http://www.mailwasher.net/ it checks your mail without actually downloading it. you can sort your mail on the server and delete and bounce it back to where it came from and when you download your mail all thats left is what you really wantto get


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    Cryos
    Registered Users Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Cryos


    i get about 5 or 6 a day but norton internet security takes them off, mostly viruses but im getting alot of proxy virus mail


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    RobertFoster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,194 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    I used to get them from people I used to go to school with, who I never liked, who I didn't know had my email address....I just blocked each address as they kept coming from the same people.


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    #5
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    i have never got sent a email virus in my 7 years of using the web
    i feel left out


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    Stephen
    Registered Users Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    I get a couple of copies of NetSky every day to one particular account I have. 2 others are totally spam/virus free.
    I haven't ever actually been stung by a virus since CIH/Chernobyl nuked my 486 several years ago.


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    ando
    Registered Users Posts: 5,403 ✭✭✭ando


    i was getting about 7 virus's a day for a period of about a month, but over the last week its gone down to 1 virus every 2 days aprox. I think its either the netsky virus is not spreading as much anymore, or else iol.ie mail servers have new filters in place


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    #8
    shinzon
    Registered Users Posts: 5,462 ✭✭✭shinzon


    yep still get the netsky virus on a regular basis but nod32 takes care of it

    What im getting sick and tired of though is the continual spamming of my e-mail address , i get everything from viagra to cialis to porn spam and its getting very very annoying

    This morning I deleted 42 e-mails from my account all were spam

    GRRRR

    Shin


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    dod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 801 ✭✭✭dod


    I've received no more than four viruses through emails in the last 24 months. Norton catches them all Thank God.

    If I'm subscribing to anything, or giving my email to a website or something, I always use my hotmail a/c, that way it doesn't interfere with my day-to-day email.

    The difficulty is that, if you have a catch-all email account, the addresses have obviously been scraped off the web pages or somesuch. It's probably too late to take remedial action because the addresses have now propogated through all the other spam lists, so you're on the databases and nothing you do now will change it.

    Pain in the ass I know.


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