Arrrggghhhhhhhhhhhhh Spam!

[Chaotic42]

54 spam messages in one day here at work. It all started when someone here opened up a KLEZ virus. Ever since then we've been flooded with spam.

We use OE (No, we can't use anything else, it would confuse everyone) on W2K. I know just about nothing about Windows network/mail issues. What can we do? Is there a program we can use to get rid of it? Our ISP isn't doing a damn thing.

 

[MichaelD]

I'm truly sorry that you don't have an Admin that has the slighest of clues. Klez is old; there's no excuse for it getting thru the Firewall. Your admin DOES know what a firewall is, right?

OTOH, there is little defense again undecuated users. Not you, OK? 🙂 However, there is this neat little thing called "Group Policies" that can be implemented to prevent such a horrible thing from happening. 😀

 

[mztykal]

Spam is great. Tastes good fried crispy with rice. 😉

LOL!

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
I'm truly sorry that you don't have an Admin that has the slighest of clues. Klez is old; there's no excuse for it getting thru the Firewall. Your admin DOES know what a firewall is, right?

OTOH, there is little defense again undecuated users. Not you, OK? 🙂 However, there is this neat little thing called "Group Policies" that can be implemented to prevent such a horrible thing from happening. 😀

Here are some things I failed to point out:

We all use the same email account.
I've tried getting a firewall, my boss won't let me.
We have a $0 computer budget.
I work on the computers, keeping them running anyway.
KLEZ isn't on our system, the influx of spam just started around that same time.
We aren't allowed to use any other OS or other mail program.

 

[Nohr]

You're boned.

 

[AreaCode707]

Some moron at T-Mobile, a sales rep, forwarded one of those "Bill Gates will give you $400 for every person you send this to"... To ALL 20,000 employees in the global address book at work last week.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: HotChic
Some moron at T-Mobile, a sales rep, forwarded one of those "Bill Gates will give you $400 for every person you send this to"... To ALL 20,000 employees in the global address book at work last week.

That sounds like what happens here. People open every single email that we get. We have AV software, but it can't catch everything, so we had problems in the past.

I switched us over to Mozilla, and that's helped a lot.

 

[DaWhim]

Originally posted by: HotChic
Some moron at T-Mobile, a sales rep, forwarded one of those "Bill Gates will give you $400 for every person you send this to"... To ALL 20,000 employees in the global address book at work last week.

you work at tmo?

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: DaWhim

Originally posted by: HotChic
Some moron at T-Mobile, a sales rep, forwarded one of those "Bill Gates will give you $400 for every person you send this to"... To ALL 20,000 employees in the global address book at work last week.

you work at tmo?

In recruiting.

 

[h8red]

Cloudmark Spamnet <-- will this work?

 

[murphy55d]

SpamNet is great. I use it, but it has a monthly fee, and he said his budget is $0. (even though it's like 4 bucks a month)

 

[Cat13]

Originally posted by: murphy55d
SpamNet is great. I use it, but it has a monthly fee, and he said his budget is $0. (even though it's like 4 bucks a month)

Still using the beta, no fee 😉

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: HotChic

Originally posted by: DaWhim

Originally posted by: HotChic
Some moron at T-Mobile, a sales rep, forwarded one of those "Bill Gates will give you $400 for every person you send this to"... To ALL 20,000 employees in the global address book at work last week.

you work at tmo?

In recruiting.

YOu should hook ATOT'ers up at a little discount or something, the company would be ahppy for more sign ups and it would look good that you're getting outside of work sales.

 

[TheToOTaLL]

Originally posted by: Nohr

You're boned.

Nothing worse than management showing no interested in making things better in this technology age. Even worse when they want something to get done and you don't have to resources to make it happen.