[TriLUG] Had it with worm

[Mike Mueller]

On Wednesday 24 September 2003 20:12, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> I would recommend you use fetchmail to bring the mail to your local
> workstation, and then run spamassassin to filter out all the spams and
> worm stuff.  It's not that difficult to set up -- LOTS of howto's out
> there -- and it's so relieving to have almost all of your email be worm-
> and spam-free.

Gonna do that (and soon).  I am still curious if killing the email account 
that is getting hammered right now helps in any way.  

If I kill the account I don't see the problem.  If the mail gets bounced does 
that have any net positive effect?  Does the malware keep on sending to the 
address that was once working but now is cancelled?  Do the bounce messages 
just create more noise on the net? I read that email addresses for lists 
should be changed often.  Maybe this would just worsen the problem because I 
would be creating many valid addresses that get harvested and used by email 
malware.  Email sent to a bad address is still clutter on the net. 

Thanks.
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Mike Mueller
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