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E-mail users urged to filter out new spam 4:07 p.m., May 19, 2005--IT-User Services advises UD e-mail users that the best ways to respond to a recent rash of unsolicited e-mail, mostly in German, are to ignore and delete the “propaganda spam” and turn on their junk-mail filter. According to IT-User Services, the e-mail messages, which are being propagated by a variant of the Sober P worm, do not contain any infectious attachments and are not dangerous, but the right-wing German nationalistic messages are offensive to most people. “Those UD users getting such e-mail need to know that it is not a virus,” Beth Miller, IT-User Services, said. “The user can either turn on the junk-mail filter, which we highly recommend, or just hit the delete key.” The IT Help Center has received about 50 inquiries about the German e-mail they are suddenly getting, but a lot of users on the new Mirapoint Webmail Direct system have their junk filter turned on, so they have not seen those e-mails, Miller said. Instructions for turning the filter on are available at [www.udel.edu/topics/e-mail/mirapoint/login.html#junk] For more information about all virus protection software available to the University community, visit [www.udel.edu/topics/virus/mcafee]. To report virus-related problems with a computer, contact the IT-Help Center at (302) 831-6000, or via e-mail at [consult@udel.edu]. Article by Martin Mbugua To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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