I'm getting flooded by emails to my yahoo id. Most indicate they're from MS regarding patches, updates, etc. I delete them but I'm getting 50+ of them everyday with 150K attachments. I've run Panda several time and don't believe I'm infected. Believe it was someone who had my email id in their address book. How do I stop the barrage? Thanks, Ray

Yeah, I had the same thing, and it was the same stupid "microsoft patch" message in bad English, so I assume it is coming from a foreign country; I finally just changed my e-mail address in Yahoo, and that ended it. It just got worse and worse until I was getting 100 a day. I don't know exactly why, but evidently whatever horse's rear end is sending these out had some program that keeps sending to the same addy once it gets it or something.

You can try using filters in Yahoo Mail. You'll still get the bogus e-mails, but at least you can direct them out of your Inbox and into a folder of your choosing to sort through later. For info on Yahoo filters, click here: Yahoo Filters HTH

Both reasonable suggestions. However,I'm reluctant to change my email as it's been a part of my recent job search. I've tried filters with only marginal success. I've also tried blocking the id and/or domain sending the msg with again only some success. I suspect I'm going to end up with only two options: live with it or change email ids and wait for it to happen again. Ray

The only thing you can do to fight back is to complain to your ISP or service about them. They have the ability to trace where they came into their network from, and ask that network to find and fix the source. They don't do it unless there are a lot of complaints. I was getting two a day, that appear to come from IP address [24.157.140.114] which would make it a Rogers Communications cable customer. Not sure if this a spoofed IP address, but I complained to Rogers Cable abuse e-mail address any way. What service? They, unlike others, did not bother to acknowledge the e-mail. After a few days, the MS Dumaru Worm e-mail stopped for a few days, then started again. Now a week later it has stopped again. So who knows. If it starts up again, EarthLink gets the next abuse letter, as the headers indicate that it came directly into their network from one of their customers machines and was not really transfered from Rogers Communications network, or relayed from a vaild server.

report any spam email to yahoo. they have very good filters & will take action to send it to your bulk email folder. you do have bulk email filter turned on in yahoo?