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28-01-2004, 11:53
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Massive delays in CDZ email
Some emails addressed to my CDZ mail arrive up to several days late.
It is NOT certain senders that cause the problem, as sometimes a re-send comes through quickly and the original email arrives 3 days later  anybody else with this problem?
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28-01-2004, 12:24
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Yesterday was a *very strange* days for email : I have used various emails from various accounts and there were problems everywhere.
I think those viruses yesterday took lots of servers down or something... Emails that were sent yesterday and that timed-out, were received today 
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28-01-2004, 12:32
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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My wife email via BT has been very disrupted too. I'd suspect that the latest round of viruses has caused a lot of server disruption - like Sky says.
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28-01-2004, 13:02
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Yup, my mail has been slow too! I also thought it had something to do with the new worm...
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28-01-2004, 13:44
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anarchist butcher
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Keep an eye out for future - it was definitely a bad day for email virus' yesterday. Our mail server blocked about 50 of them, and there were many more that got stopped before that at our ISP.
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28-01-2004, 14:02
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I am the lucky recipiant of a 200+ mail bomb today  most addressed to either old utility support addys I once used or imaginary addys at my domain. Outlook has no easy way to filter unknown addresses either  suggestions for better mail managers anyone?the attachments are slightly more cunning than normal... "unicode characters were included, attached as a binary file" |
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28-01-2004, 14:28
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King
Join Date: Mar 2003
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I use Mailwasher to pre filter my mail - but the free version will only work on one email address.
http://www.mailwasher.net/
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28-01-2004, 22:18
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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Yes Killah - I got turn 42 from you some days after we reached 51
 I use Trend Micro's Internet Security, and it just blocks evil attatchments and spam... 
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29-01-2004, 15:02
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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More info here: http://securityresponse.symantec.com...varg.a@mm.html
Just read on Teletext that the Worm generates 20 - 30 % of all e-mail traffic atm and that a new variant has been observed which runs already once the e-mail is opened, instead of waiting for the user to open an attachment. Not sure how true that part is / can be.
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29-01-2004, 15:10
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anarchist butcher
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Several virus' already activte when an email is opened, without having to run an attachment. In Outlook the auto-preview and preview pane both open emails automatically and can inadvertantly activate hidden script in emails.
More annoyingly, some spam messages have pictures in them linked from the internet, and in the html that displays the image is a code that verifies your email address is a valid one (for spamming purposes). This means that opening a porn-spam-email in the preview pane, or having auto-preview enabled will send a message to a server saying that your email has been verified, which in turn gets sold on again for more spam. Oh joy!
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