I work hard to keep my email clean and never use it for anything "adult". Starting this am I have been getting about 5 emails an hour, all with 73kb attachments..... is this a world wide problem today or did I get listed somewhere do you think.........pain in the a** if you ask me.............
Spam
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I was getting the same thing. Stupid f#$@'n me looking at an attachment that looked legit! I scanned with AVG Antivirus yesterday but of course the definition was only available in today's update. However, even with that, it couldn't get rid of it. It's actually a trojan horse (a version of the "Sober" worm) and it took me a couple of tries with different programs before I could eradicate it. The one that did the trick is "The Stinger" from McAfee:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
http://www.avnonline.com/index.php?...ve_News&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=226669
A spam ring whose specialties included porn, counterfeit software, and counterfeit prescription drugs was socked with a lawsuit and court order May 11 that closed its online operations, Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly announced.
Reilly credited Microsoft with providing major informational help in bringing the case, which was filed against alleged ringleader Leo Kuvayev and six other individuals. “This case shows the effectiveness of public and private partners working together to protect consumers,” he offered.
The Kuvayev group is accused of violating both Massachusetts' consumer protection law and the federal CAN-SPAM Act by sending unsolicited, unlabeled, falsely labeled, and masked messages. “The numbers are staggering,” Reilly said. “Leo Kuvayev and the other members of his so-called ‘Internet Spam Gang’ are unleashing millions of unsolicited messages on consumers every day.”
Microsoft senior vice president Brad Smith applauded Reilly for his anti-spam efforts. "pam is not just annoying. In this case, it's illegal," Smith said. "Spam can be devious, intentionally deceptive and is sometimes loaded with either viruses that crash computers or trickery designed to get you to give up your personal information."
First Amendment attorney J.D. Obenberger, an outspoken critic of porn spam, said it shouldn't surprise anyone that people fed up with or injured by spam are turning information over to the government.
"Spam injures all of us," he told AVNOnline.com. "Nobody should have to be subjected to that who doesn't want to see it. My job as a free speech lawyer is going to be made immeasurably harder by the spamsters who urinate in the well we all drink from. It's the enemy of the online publisher, and it antagonizes potential juries against the adult Internet."
Kuvayev, Vladislav Khokolkov, Anna Orlova, Pavel Tkachuk, Michelle Marco, Dennis Nartikoev, and Pavel Yashin were the individuals named, as were their companies, 2KServices and Ecash Pay.
The Reilly suit accuses Kuvayev of masterminding "a complicated web of Internet sites and domain names selling a variety of illegal products." Reilly said in his announcement that it wasn't known just how many spam messages the ring sent forth, but the volume was likely to have hit hundreds of millions in their base state Massachusetts and around the U.S.
The group is said to have operated through Russia using domains registered in Monaco, Australia, and France that were running on servers in China, Korea, Brazil, and Taiwan. The Kurayev group is thought to be responsible for sites and spam pushing porn, software, mortgage loans, and counterfeit Rolex wristwatches. The counterfeit software included Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat.
A spam ring whose specialties included porn, counterfeit software, and counterfeit prescription drugs was socked with a lawsuit and court order May 11 that closed its online operations, Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly announced.
Reilly credited Microsoft with providing major informational help in bringing the case, which was filed against alleged ringleader Leo Kuvayev and six other individuals. “This case shows the effectiveness of public and private partners working together to protect consumers,” he offered.
The Kuvayev group is accused of violating both Massachusetts' consumer protection law and the federal CAN-SPAM Act by sending unsolicited, unlabeled, falsely labeled, and masked messages. “The numbers are staggering,” Reilly said. “Leo Kuvayev and the other members of his so-called ‘Internet Spam Gang’ are unleashing millions of unsolicited messages on consumers every day.”
Microsoft senior vice president Brad Smith applauded Reilly for his anti-spam efforts. "
First Amendment attorney J.D. Obenberger, an outspoken critic of porn spam, said it shouldn't surprise anyone that people fed up with or injured by spam are turning information over to the government.
"Spam injures all of us," he told AVNOnline.com. "Nobody should have to be subjected to that who doesn't want to see it. My job as a free speech lawyer is going to be made immeasurably harder by the spamsters who urinate in the well we all drink from. It's the enemy of the online publisher, and it antagonizes potential juries against the adult Internet."
Kuvayev, Vladislav Khokolkov, Anna Orlova, Pavel Tkachuk, Michelle Marco, Dennis Nartikoev, and Pavel Yashin were the individuals named, as were their companies, 2KServices and Ecash Pay.
The Reilly suit accuses Kuvayev of masterminding "a complicated web of Internet sites and domain names selling a variety of illegal products." Reilly said in his announcement that it wasn't known just how many spam messages the ring sent forth, but the volume was likely to have hit hundreds of millions in their base state Massachusetts and around the U.S.
The group is said to have operated through Russia using domains registered in Monaco, Australia, and France that were running on servers in China, Korea, Brazil, and Taiwan. The Kurayev group is thought to be responsible for sites and spam pushing porn, software, mortgage loans, and counterfeit Rolex wristwatches. The counterfeit software included Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat.
