[boxerblues]

Im not using Outlook and my inbox has been filled with these emails. My virus is up to date, firewall running and I cant stop them from coming in.

[rusty millet]

I deleted at least 450 virus-carrying emails yesterday.

[LinuxRocks]

"Im not using Outlook and my inbox has been filled with these emails. My virus is up to date, firewall running and I cant stop them from coming in."

It is awful isn't it? And it is all because of the stupid M$ virus/worm email relay that is now on 99.9% of all desktops. The Emperor (Mr. Gates) has NO CLOTHES.

[AnimalLover]

My virus is up to date, firewall running and I cant stop them from coming in.

I know what you mean. Had a virus a year ago that zapped my machine - had to get a new drive and start over.

Am now using the following programs - you can download a free 30 trial - I bought them all and "knock on wood" no virus.

You might check into the following on the internet:

MailWasher Pro - identifies spam, possible virus, filtered, etc., so they can be deleted before download. You can read these messages at the server before downloading.

FireTrust Benign. This reads over all E-Mail and will drop suspicious attachments. It also will rewrite some E-Mails so that all you see is the copy. No links.

Spy Sweeper - just bought this one. It's great! On my first sweep it picked up about 60 "cookies" that had been planted without my knowledge. You are able to check out each and every "cookie" - gives you an idea where it came from.

I'm rather new at this computer business so I suggest you check these programs out.

P.S. Just this evening I had an E-Mail listed as having been bounced - it had been rewritten with details I do not understand. The subject of the E-Mail was: re your details. This was referred to in the article in WND.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3304287

Sorry to be so wordy!

[IpaqMan]

I have received over 700 virus related messages in the past day. Most of them are from anti-virus utilities returning email supposedly sent by me (forged reply address). In the midst of the flood, I received about a dozen "real" emails and some spam.

So I added a message filter looking for the word SOBIG, the sender MAILER-DAEMON, postmaster, mail*, the subject AUTOREPLY and so on. About eighty percent of the bad email now dumps into a special folder. That makes the flood easier to manage.