On Sep 19, 9:01, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
> > I'm being totally bombarded by those damn trojan horse e-mails
purporting
> > to be from Microsoft security, each averaging 150K.
> >
> > Is anyone else experiencing this? I must've received over 150
today so
> > far (starting this morning).
> The "New patch" crap? Yes, same here.
My work email account was up to 250 or more by the time I left work
about 20 minutes ago. Our mail server handled about 3500 today, making
it the largest single virus/trojan, by an order of magnitude.
Mailscanner (see
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/ if you
don't know about it) is now set to drop them silently.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Fri Sep 19 2003 - 13:02:00 BST