OT: pirated email

[BluPhoenyx]

There is a slew of this stuff going around all over the web. I was
seeing a few hundred a day at first and at 150k a pop, it sure screwed
up my little 56k connection. I think it's could be a new campaign to
screw with the data transfer records of ISP's. With all the data
moving around, it could be more difficult to pinpoint the pirates.

For me, the fix is easy. I set Sylpheed-Claws to limit the size of the
emails to download to a reasonable threshold. In my case 99 kb for
now. Then set a filter to grab the rest and send them to the garbage.
Not only are there ones with attachments but there are those which are
supposed to be stripped but you still get the detritus. So far I have
eliminated this problem now and with Sylpheed-Claws, get the ones I
want and kill the wormy emails without even downloading them. So cool.

For those who need it, here is the filter entry. It should give useful
info for anyone with this problem.

headers_part matchcase "skynet.be" | from matchcase "Microsoft" |
subject matchcase "Microsoft" | from matchcase "ms corporation" | from
matchcase "ms technical" | from matchcase "ms public" | from matchcase
"ms net" | from matchcase "ms security" | from matchcase "ms internet"
| from matchcase "ms message" | from matchcase "ms mail" | from
matchcase "internet message" | from matchcase "internet security" |
from matchcase "inet delivery" | from matchcase "inet messag" | from
matchcase "inet email delivery" | from matchcase "inet service" | from
matchcase "network system" | from matchcase "network email" | from
matchcase "network delivery" | from matchcase "net upgrade" | from
matchcase "net storage" | from matchcase "net email" | from matchcase
"customer support" | subject matchcase "security support" | subject
matchcase "security update" | subject matchcase "Returned Message" |
subject matchcase "Returned Mail" | subject matchcase "critical patch"
| subject matchcase "failure message" | subject matchcase "abort
report" | subject matchcase "bug notice" | subject matchcase "critical
update" | subject matchcase "undelivered mail: return" | subject
matchcase "undeliverable message: user" | from matchcase
"administrator" | from matchcase "admin" | from matchcase "network
mail delivery" | from matchcase "postmaster" | from matchcase "email
storage" | from matchcase "robot at america.com" | subject matchcase
"mail user unknown" | subject matchcase "failure announcement" |
subject matchcase "failure advice" | from matchcase "program security"

-- 
Cheers,
Mike T.

Linux user #169067