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Tuvai Permanently banned for account hacking. Level: 24 Posts: 28/211 EXP: 74894 For next: 3231 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 566 days Last activity: 339 days |
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| I've had tuvai.com for little over a half year now, and ever since I got it I've been using my @tuvai.com webmail alias, which I connect to through Outlook Express. The mailserver has an excellent spamfilter and in the half yearr I've used the email account, I NEVER got a single spam email in my inbox. However, lately I've been getting the same email over and over, though with random email addresses everytime, and it's really pissing me off:  You get the idea... The body of the email is always "Your file is attached.", as for the attachment. It's always a .pif file with a random filename of EXACTLY 17,6 KB big. I already contacted my webhost's service desk person, but he says he can't do shit about it and that I'm the only person bugging him with it, even though other people on that host are telling me they're having the same problem in the IRC channel. I guess it speaks for itself; how can I prevent these annoying emails from ending up in my inbox?  Isn't there some sort of option in Outlook Express that can automaticly reject emails with .pid attachment or something?(edited by Tuvai on 03-15-04 02:12 PM) |
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Sandy53215 Acmlm (10:55:31 PM): they're having fun for the first time in so long Level: 47  Posts: 18/948 EXP: 713034 For next: 53169 Since: 03-15-04 From: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (U.S.A) Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Wow, well I have been having problems with mine also randy53215@antireality.net I would have 50 pages and stuff. So yeah there should be a way to fix that. Maybe contact your host. | |||
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Tuvai Permanently banned for account hacking. Level: 24 Posts: 29/211 EXP: 74894 For next: 3231 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 566 days Last activity: 339 days |
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Originally posted by Randy53215 Wow, well I have been having problems with mine also randy53215@antireality.net I would have 50 pages and stuff. So yeah there should be a way to fix that. Maybe contact your host. Originally posted by Tuvai I already contacted my webhost's service desk person, but he says he can't do shit about it and that I'm the only person bugging him with it, even though other people on that host are telling me they're having the same problem in the IRC channel. |
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Sandy53215 Acmlm (10:55:31 PM): they're having fun for the first time in so long Level: 47 Posts: 20/948 EXP: 713034 For next: 53169 Since: 03-15-04 From: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (U.S.A) Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Ahhh didnt read below the picture. hehe. Well then that could be a problem. Maybe make a new E-mail account. :/ | |||
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Tuvai Permanently banned for account hacking. Level: 24 Posts: 31/211 EXP: 74894 For next: 3231 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 566 days Last activity: 339 days |
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| No, I'm not going to make a new email account; and please, if you don't have anything useful to add, then don't reply. | |||
Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 146/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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It looks more like something that is created by an virus than spam...  Is there any text in those letters? And have you examined the contents of the attachments?  |
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Tuvai Permanently banned for account hacking. Level: 24 Posts: 33/211 EXP: 74894 For next: 3231 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 566 days Last activity: 339 days |
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Body = Text.  And no, I delete them right away now, rather not toy around with random attachments. |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 82/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| in some ways, this is why i don't like using mail clients...web interface is goo enough for me but anyways, maybe you can screen out the subject line..since they all say Re: in them... |
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Acmlm Torosu heh Level: 51  Posts: 61/1173 EXP: 981994 For next: 31944 Since: 03-15-04 From: Somewhere that isn't outside of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada Since last post: 39 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| Hmm, I'm also getting similar crap lately, short random messages with attachments ... It's possible to block spam by subject in Outlook, I've done that a lot before ... and since it's always the same few showing up, that might work  |
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Tuvai Permanently banned for account hacking. Level: 24 Posts: 35/211 EXP: 74894 For next: 3231 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 566 days Last activity: 339 days |
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| That would work a bit, but unfortunately not solve it. The screenshot I posted above is just a little part of my Trash folder; the subject seems to be random, too. | |||
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 21/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Any email with a .pif attatchment is a virus. There's no reason to send PIFs to another person. Looks like just a typical worm relying on stupid users to open the file tho. I haven't actually got much of that yet. |
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Tuvai Permanently banned for account hacking. Level: 24 Posts: 40/211 EXP: 74894 For next: 3231 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 566 days Last activity: 339 days |
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| Well yeah, it's obviously yet another stupid email worm. What pisses me off is that the cause of these things spreading are actually the dumbasses stupid enough to open that bullshit. So, anyone know of a way to keep these annoying things out of my inbox? |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 87/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| if you create a permission list where you list the only people that can send email to your account and bar all emails from everwhere else... or maybe you can automatically block all attachments and then when you know someone is going to send you an attachment, then you create an exception for them? |
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Tuvai Permanently banned for account hacking. Level: 24 Posts: 42/211 EXP: 74894 For next: 3231 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 566 days Last activity: 339 days |
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| Permission list is out of the picture; I run a small webdesign/scripting company and got new clients mailing me every day; can't just block all of those people, and thus my money source, off. | |||
Chaos Force Panser Level: 29 Posts: 77/332 EXP: 147860 For next: 25 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 21 days Last activity: 4 hours |
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| I've been havng the same probelm actually, but it all started when I was forwarding my chaosforce@tekhacks.net mail to my other account. I would call the people who host your site about it. Obviously they dont have spam filters... |
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Cymoro PATRICK DUFFY WILL LASER YOUR SOUL   Level: 67  Posts: 67/2216 EXP: 2549743 For next: 43129 Since: 03-15-04 From: Cymoro Gaming Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| Spamkiller It works for me. You should try it. |
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jmr Paratroopa Level: 21  Posts: 5/149 EXP: 44421 For next: 5522 Since: 03-16-04 From: Newfoundland, Canada (aka the middle of FRICKIN' nowhere) Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 3 days |
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| Using Outlook Express, eh? Try Cloudmark Spamnet: http://www.cloudmark.com/products/spamnet/download/. It's not free, but it works REALLY well. It's like a P2P spam-blocking network. If you block an email, it will be added to a database, which will be used to help block other's spam. It all gets tucked away into a SPAM folder, which you can sift through and delete accordingly... It's not free anymore, but you can get a 30 day trial... Maybe if you like it, you will EDIT: I got all those "Re: Your (fill in the blank)" emails once. Thank God for Norton. It's good for something. (edited by JefF on 03-17-04 10:47 PM) |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get.  Level: 73  Posts: 6/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| It's a virus, most likely Netsky I think. That's the most prevalent at the moment I believe, so the one you're most likely recieving. You don't have any control over the mail server at all, do you? If you do, try setting things so that files with .pif attachments aren't allowed through -- they are deleted on the server. There is pretty much no reason why you'll get a .pif that isn't a virus, so doing that will get rid of a lot of virus-spam. If you can't do it yourself, request that your host does it. If they won't, er... :-/ I dunno, there are ways you can filter on your machine, but nothing will be as effective as a server side solution. (edited by ChibiTaryn on 03-18-04 03:12 AM) |
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drjayphd Beamos What's that spell? pimp! Level: 56  Posts: 34/1477 EXP: 1387410 For next: 10766 Since: 03-15-04 From: CT Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Yeah, my school email server blocks attachments quite well. Haven't had any false positives there, although their spam filter nailed one thing once that it shouldn't have. Although it would be nice if normal email clients (Outlook, Outlook Express, etc.) could let you filter emails by attachment file extension... Outlook only lets you do it by attachment. I use SpamBayes (I think it's at sourceforge), and it's QUITE nice at blocking spam (I get somewhere around 100 spam emails a day). And it's free, too.  |
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tinzeee Permaban Repeated warnings and bannings about stupidity Level: 38  Posts: 43/618 EXP: 369695 For next: 752 Since: 04-02-04 From: Australia - Sydney Since last post: 553 days Last activity: 339 days |
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| I hate spam, i use hotmail and i have had to pay for extra stuff and its well worth it, i used to use outlook, but at the time i was a newbie and i kept on getting spam, so i changed to hotmail and haven't had a problem since... you could always try just let the spam come, and just let it go to your junkmail box... |
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