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UGH!!! Massive netsky flooding, anything I can do?

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xxAgentCowxx

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Im getting these messages in my yahoo mail at least 3 a minute, half are titled something stupid like "I love you!", and the other half are "Mail Delivery (failure myemailaddy@yahoo.com)" All with attachments 40 or 41k in size. Yahoo detects it as w32.netsky.p@mm and disables downloading of the attachment so im not at any danger here, but theyre going to fill up my quota overnight and if i get any real mail (bills, other important stuff) it wont go thru.

Is there anything I can do besides change my email addy?

Will this stop anytime soon?

and while im pissed off, WTF is the deal with viruses??? why do people write them?? I can understand the [fvcked up] logic of attacking one person, or phishing for info, or even gaining access to random peoples' systems. But why go thru the time and effort and waste your own machine power to massively spam people that have email services that wont let viruses be downloaded anyways?
 
Originally posted by: xxAgentCowxx
Originally posted by: SunnyD
Why are you using Yahoo for any important stuff anyway?
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POP pisses me off, and i keep switching ISPs so this way i dont have to keep changing it
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Okay then. If you say so.
 
If you want to keep your email address, you should see about getting a domain and email hosting provider. If nothing else, you'll be able to create lots of junk email addresses to receive the spam.
 
If you need to make sure you get important emails, you cannot depend on some free service. That's just too risky.
 
Originally posted by: xxAgentCowxx
Originally posted by: SunnyD
Why are you using Yahoo for any important stuff anyway?
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POP pisses me off, and i keep switching ISPs so this way i dont have to keep changing it
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Then deal with the bullsh|t of having a free email account through Yahoo. Tuff.
 
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