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Yes! And on an account that never gets spammed.

yes - me. at work no less. the whole campus is getting it.

Yes!

I'm getting tons of it in my yahoo account, and even a few at work (which never gets spammed).

What's the story?

I read somewhere that it's some sort of virus. Apparently we're suppposed to "update our spam filters."

yes, our network guy sent us an email about this yesterday but i managed to delete it already. it's the newest form of the sober mass mailing worm.

"sober.q uses both german and english-language messages to direct recipients to Web sites with right-wing german nationalistic content, according to an advisory from e-mail security company mx logic. one of the urls points to the web site of the right-wing german npd party, it says." -pcworld.com

i did get a nice email telling me that "the whore was leaning toward german feelings". man did i want to click on that link.

Yes--every other minute.
On all of my accounts!

Me, too! It's quite ungerade. (odd)

From what I remember of my high school German, it all seems to be tinged with some sort of racial paranoia. And there's no message body, only subject lines.

Would love to hear the story behind this if anyone has more information.

Here's a link to the article mentioned above -

www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120846,00.asp

In a comment in another article, one respondent reported *1600* spams of German origin. Sheesh!

Yes for me, too, though not quite 1600.

Yup. Lots of it at work. Haven't checked my home account yet today.

Same here--been getting them at work, the first time I have ever received any spam to my work address. Everyone else is, too.

dunno if this is the same spam virus thing...but here's an article I read this morning at MSNBC site

http //www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7874164/ (add colon)

outlook doesn't sound promising =/

holy crap! i thought it was just me! sheesh. it's all weird and sort of rascist too, no?

It still amazes me, that since I've been online in 1999, I never get spam. Famous last words maybe, but nevertheless, I've never had to deal with it. I never register for anything, and I do not allow cookies to be stored on my computer. I use Firefox and Thunderbird these days, too, which seem to work well.

I also ask my friends not to include my email address in group mailings........... (usually stupid joke and story pass-alongs, which I can easily live without).

Yes! I thought it was because of some web hunting for an upcoming European vacation, but maybe it was a design thing!

It started yesterday...

I haven't been getting any spam, but I keep getting some sort of "multi-cultural = multi-criminel" link that other providers have bounced back to my domain name. I'm worried that people will start blocking my domain name as a spammer because someone with my name in their address book got a stupid email virus...

can i just say that I LOVE the fact that i found out info on what the heck was in my in-box from this site, as opposed to, i don't know, my IT guys? this place is a really nice community.

A really good site that I keep on top of my bookmark list is lifehacker.com written by Gena Trapani (part of the Gawker gang). Just about all the tools you need to keep your computer safe and up to speed. I don't keep that many bookmarks, but this one is a keeper.

Isn't "buckets of spam from Germany" a Monty Python skit?

LOL

Phew!
My so-called "computer technician" boyfriend has managed to avoid the wild German spam and has been accusing me this entire week that it is a mailing list I unwittingly signed up for.

However, Gmail's spam filter is taking it's sweet time fighting back.