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When Sircam hit last summer and I was getting upwards of 300 virus emails an hour I finally found a stand-alone program called Email Remover to download headers for deletion. I didn't want to use filters because you still have to download the entire email into your mail proggie. Some of these emails end up being 4 or 5 megs. As a safeguard (and mainly because at times the emails come faster then I can delete the old ones by headers), I set my email program (btw I will *never**never* use Outlook) to only download emails under 10k.
Now with the Klez mess, I not only get the virus emails, but I get emails from furious people telling me I've sent them the virus (you're of course aware it uses random email addys from the infected pc's own email lists and cache as senders) and also many emails that are kick backs from mail servers that I've sent a virus and it's been deleted.
I know without a doubt that my PCs aren't infected. I scan, double scan, etc. You have to these days.
It's frustrating and I think it's going to get alot worse before it ever gets better. Gone are they days that I can open my mail server, and click the "download new mail" button and not bat an eye.
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