Re: Spam - Snow white

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

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!

kCheers
David