Spam guard. 500 emails of virus email. Wowee!

Cant you just delete them without sacanning them.I get viruses sent to me all the time but I delete them without opening them and evrything is fine.If I do open one AVG gets them everytime.And its free.

Alexndrie, SpamKiller 4 by mcafee works well for me, never even know there where sent because it deletes in the back ground, also you can configure NAV to auto delete without confirmation.

Ohh 500 virus ridden emails??? That's horrible!!

I would use an anti-spam program (there lots out there but I use AntiSpamWare) to screen your emails before downloding. This safes me a lot of time every day.

I think you can tell Norton Antivirus to either fix or delete the virus in emails silently (without any notification) and you should be able to find this feature in the options menue.

Xerraire at MXskinz gets almost as many per day, I am with Alexandrie, its a PAIN...Alexandrie, you might be able to configure your nortons to do what IRBrainiac mentioned.

I hope that helps you.

Barb

I got 184 e-mails today with viruses and still comming!

Just tell Norton to "repair and then silently delete if unsuccessful" Alexandrie, I was having the same problem, but not any more.

Adni you save my day!! thank you so much!!

I started a thread about this earlier today. If only people were a little more careful and would keep their virus checkers up-to-date, we wouldn't have problems like these.

I'm still sitting deleting mails because of someone else's stupidity. I'm just lucky to have access to my account through web-based mail so I don't have to download all these mails before they get checked.

I've posted a news story with links for removal of the virus, which I want everyone (no exceptions!) to read and act on immediately. Read it here: https://www.wincustomize.com/newsBoard.asp?ID=1876

#4 by aufisch - 8/19/2003 3:01:42 PM Ohh 500 virus ridden emails??? That's horrible!!

Think that's bad?  Stardock support is getting one every 3 to 5 seconds.  Norton runs in the background and a filter on the email takes care of most of the rest of them.  Bogs down the machine though  

hehe getting 100 per hours since this morning

It all just bites.  I got hit on my work machine with all updates applied, Norton running and behind a firewall.  Luckily, it's easy to get rid of.  Hit two of us at the office at once causing a spontaneous reboot.  Real pain.

Got a bunch of them today, also. At my Yahoo mail address, no less. Although that is good cause they are never on my machine since I delete them off Yahoo's server without ever downloading.

A useful little utility I use is eprompter. It will check most web mail and just about any ISP based mail for you. It can be set to only get the headers so you can decide if you want to read the messages or not. You can then delete unwanted mail from your mail server from eprompter. It's easy, convenient, and free.

These are gonna clog up everyone's mail accounts too. You'll have to go to the web client for your email (if you have emails saved after download as a lot of people have to do) and delete them a page at a time from the account space.

My mailbox space is ten Mb and it got filled today after a few hundred viruses plus a few  hundred spams because I had received a couple attachments as well.

I echo everyone's feeling... what a pain!

sheesh I feel left out