Re: Spam - Snow white

["Russ" <russelln@iprimus.com.au>]

"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