8-10 Viris in my email
 

After posting my email address on my website for 3 days only before removing it, I am not constantly without fail everyday I get 8-10 virises sent to me. all different with text in them like:

"Kaspersky give you the special W32.Elkern removal tools
W32.Elkern is a special dangerous virus that can infect on Win98/Me/2000/XP.

For more information,please visit http://www.Kaspersky.com "



I assume this is the bugbear viris or someother shit like that just going round and round and round. Do any of you know how this works and why I'm constantly getting these things?

Do you guys get them too?

Sammy

Yes. Some visitors to your site have a virus. That virus picked up your email address from the page and now they'll be sending you those emails until their computers are virus free (or off-line). There's not much you can do about those who already sent you these emails since all the email addresses within it are likely forged (or at least not that of the actual sender).

You can try something like this:
http://www.tgpkit.com/htmlencode.php

I'm not sure how long this will last before virus coders start looking for that too (if they haven't already started) but I still see a LOT of "plaintext" email address out there for harvest... so perhaps they'll be happy with the current methods for a little while yet and leave the encoded ones alone.

And yes, I still get these emails from the early days of email worms (back to Sircam.A) by people withut a [real] return email address. The newer worms still seem to be thwarted by the encoded email address, but if you're in the address book of your customers/visitors, your email may still get plucked out for sending to on occasion (unfortunately, even that can add up).

A filter at the email server level is probably the best route to go if things get really out of hand.

HTH

It's virii

No its virusses.

8-10 a day only? You lucky bastard.

your lucky it's only 8-10
I get about 300 on an average day and have gotten over 1000 several days.
It sucks.

:(

My thought exactly :winkwink:

Close, but it's <A HREF="http://www.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html" target=blank:>viruses</A>.