Hi. I'm am getting the same email over and over from a friend of mine. Unfortunately I don't know her phone number. It started out this morning with one email she sent to me. It was being sent about once a minute. Then another she sent started coming every minute too. It's getting serious because she has sent a third with the same results except this one has a 1 Mb photo attached! The address is FROM her and TO her, so this must be a virus right?

I'm thinking about disconnecting my internet connection (Comcast Broadband) until I can get ahold of her. I hate so see my mail box get full though. We both use outlook express. She is using bell south dsl. I know she has a large address book list. Probably happening to others in her book too? If so, she is going to lose lots of friends today. Any thoughts?

James.

Contact your ISP (Comcast Broadband) and ask them for help clearing the email cache on their server. Or maybe they can suggest some setting you can change on your unit.

If you have a firewall such as OUTPOST (which comes with email filtering), you can simply deny this mail until you can call your friend.

Blackbill,

I have Norton Internet Security 2005. But I've never used the email spam program. I don't think that it affects anything except Outlook Express. I believe what you are talking about would be something that would part of my ISP. I don't think that there is anything I can do, since Outlook express simply downloads email from the Comcast site. I guess I'll try configuring email from the Comcast web site. Or call the ISP like FJ suggested.

James,

Don't use Norton so I wouldn't know.

There are programs (outpost for one) that works alone. In the case of mail, it denies the mail and sends a delete signal back to your ISP.

Many of these programs however (again like outpost) don't work well with web based mail severs. (ie: hotmail)

The other thing you can look at is the possibility of your ISP having mail filters. My ISP has filters that allows me to knock out spam and other stuff before it's even downloaded. Maybe yours too??

It turns out that my friend's Bellsouth dsl server was the problem. It was sending out multiple duplicate emails. Friends of hers said it has happened to others with Bellsouth before too. It stopped after about 4 hours.

James.