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Rider90
11-22-2005, 09:15 PM
A word of caution if you have not received these E-mails yet:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/11/22/email.scam.ap/index.html

I get about 80 of these 0.5MB .zip E-mail files everyday, for the past three days.
CRUZTAKER
11-22-2005, 09:24 PM
Our company outlook mail was inundated last week.
I got mine.
I promptly deleted it.
BruteForce
11-22-2005, 10:02 PM
Between the K9 spam filter and AVG, I never see them punks. Just have to dump the quarantine periodically.
Dave Compson
11-23-2005, 03:53 AM
What is the k9 spam filter and avg filter? I know what filters are, but are there external programs that can help also? I hate spam and want to get rid of it. All i can do now is add to my junk email sender list. It sucks.
BruteForce
11-23-2005, 07:50 AM
What is the k9 spam filter and avg filter? I know what filters are, but are there external programs that can help also? I hate spam and want to get rid of it. All i can do now is add to my junk email sender list. It sucks.

K9 http://keir.net/k9.html Needs to be trained for a while to get up to speed.

AVG is an anti virus program. There is a free version. Since I have multiple PC including 2 servers, I went for the Network addition.

http://www.grisoft.com/doc/1

AVG strips the virus payload off incoming mail. Then K9 flags it as spam (adds text e.g., [SPAM] to the Subject line) which Outlook then recognizes as one of its defined rules for mail landing in the inbox and deletes it.
Dave Compson
11-23-2005, 01:53 PM
I appreciate it, thanks for the info.