Hi Gavin,I have more than  700 since Friday, and
they are still coming, now, at about 1 every 10 minutes.
Most of them(but not all)  are blocked by
our virus checker, but nevertheless, I still
get a short report to say that the mail was
blocked, which I must delete anyway.
Do you think someone is sabotaging HP3000-L ?
I am the only one suffering in our office (out of about 20),
and I am the only one subscribed to HP3000-L.
Regards,
Tad




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John writes:
> This morning I received over 100 unsolicited emails containing
> executable files.

Over 600 here so far and continuing at about 2 per minute presently.  I'm
the only one here getting them in large volume it seems.

My guess is that it's scavenging addresses from local caches of Usenet
messages.

> 1.  Filtering software to block emails that carry .exe files?

Any version of Outlook from the last year or so will refuse to let the user
access .EXE (and similar) attachments and so should be completely immune
(apart from having to look at 12MB/hour of these things in your inbox).

G.

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