Virus

[RobC]

I was looking through the avast menus last night and I could not find anything that would deal with it:(

Good point about changing email address, just getting on my wick!

grrrrr!

[ChrisG]

Arm, you can do it in Outlook, but not sure it works in Outlook Express or not. If you want to try it, assuming youve got the latest version right click on the icon by the clock and select "On Access Protection Control" and then click on thev Outlook/Exchange option. Select customise and in the "Inbound Mail" tab you can tell it what to do with the infected e-mail. Doesnt seem to have the same option in the seperate Internet Mail section though, which I suspect is what picks up Outlook Express

[ChrisG]

The other way you can sometimes do it is through a secondary POP account. I think that Yahoo Mail for example allows you to configure it to pick up email from other POP3 accounts, so if it had AV/Spam protection too then it would pick up all your email from your existing email account, scan/block it as it came into Yahoo, so you'd only be left with the legitimate email to pick up. Im not sure if the free version of Yahoo Mail gives you all the AV / Spam protection though, or whether you'd need to upgrade (seems to be £12 a year for upgraded version which def has AV scanning etc)

[dabar]

Was worried when I saw this thread as I am located near cambridge and use ntl. I have taken the precaution of doing a full system scan(avast,which is up to date)at the highest level,it found nothing

I also ran the microsoft malicious software removal tool here

And

Stinger , here

Again no problems found with either of these,so I believe my system to be clean

Graham

[Arm]

Cheers.

I'll try those options.

[a4gom]

Glad I'm not the only one. Although it has tailed off a little bit over the weekend.

I thought it had quietened off too, 1536 this morning thats from yesterday lunchtime till 08:40 this morning. 7 were actually for me.  

[Martin Keene]

Scrap that comment, I just had 31 come through...

I'm quite sure it's not me as I'm on BT and I run Zone Alarm and Norton System Works, which was newly subcribed to and updated last week. But, I'm currently running a check anyway!

[Mark Stanton]

Seems like its Trojans being sent out from various mailboxes ............. I'm also up to date with AV software and keep getting loads of e-mails with zip files included - seems to be a lot from German addresses      

[CateringVan]

I use MailWasher from here and have set up a filter which marks any message with "cpc2-cmbg5-6-0-cust75.cmbg.cable.ntl.com" in the header for deletion. I run this before I start my email client and I can then kill them off without needing to download them first

I wonder if its someone with some sort of WSCC connection because none of my blatchatting friends seem to be getting the emails, nor has it been mentioned on blatchat. There again, it may just be a coincidence. Either way its  

[Andrew Mills]

I am running Norton done full subscription, full update and full system scan and found nothing.

It can't be me as I don't have everyones email addresses outside the Cambs Area.

However I am not getting very much junk mail and by the sounds of things I am doing well as I only 4 or 5 a week at most.

Andrew

[adhawkins]

I use MailWasher from here and have set up a filter which marks any message with "cpc2-cmbg5-6-0-cust75.cmbg.cable.ntl.com" in the header for deletion.

Let's just hope another of your friends doesn't end up with that IP then...

Andy

[Martin Keene]

Can anything be done about the trash, or do you just have to wait for them to get bored?

For me, BT are deleting them before I can get the chance to download them, and send me an email telling me they have binned it.

[ChrisF]

Me too    I had a few last week, then none at the weekend and about 50 today  

I've got up to date Nortons and have also done a virus scan, this showed up clean....luckily Norton picks them up as they come in but it's still a pain in the  

[CateringVan]

Let's just hope another of your friends doesn't end up with that IP then...

I dont let it auto-delete the messages, it just marks them for deletion and I can override it if I get what looks like a genuine email.

[adhawkins]

For me, BT are deleting them before I can get the chance to download them, and send me an email telling me they have binned it.

Brave man letting your ISP decide which e-mails you do and don't want...

Andy