Re: Spam - Snow white

["Chris" <chrisc@fl.net.au>]

when opened norton anti-virus went into action. Norton deleted the file.


"Russ" <russelln@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
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> "David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Peter Homann (peter.homann@prrDOTorg.au) wrote:
> > > Chris wrote:
> >
> > > > I have been getting this every couple of days and probaby also
people
> who
> > > > have posted to this newsgroup.
> > > >
> > > > Does anybody know how do it prevent this shit from arriving in my
> inbox
> > > > every second day?
> >
> > > Three things:
> >
> > > 1/ Proactive - bugger up you email address a bit so that automatic
> address
> > > grabbers can't get it;
> >
> > This is the best option. It's called munging your address.
> >
> > > 2/ Reactive - report the spammer to their ISP.  Look in the headers of
> the
> > > email to find their source IP address, do a "nslookup x.x.x.x" and
send
> an
> > > email to abuse@isp...  If enough people do that, the account *may* be
> > > closed.
> >
> > It's not a spammer. The Snow White email is a worm with a virus
> > attachment. Do not under any circumstances open the attachment!
>
> Good advice. It is unadvisable to open ANY .exe attachment from ANYONE
(even
> someone you know). It's not hard to write a program along the lines of
> echoY, formatC.
>
> Russ.
>
> > kCheers
> > David
>
>