Topic awaiting preservation: Spammers' Scavenging E-Mail Virus Surfaces on Net (Page 1 of 1)

This is hardly "new" as I've been receiving these emails to one of my internet email accounts for almost a year now...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040119/tc_nm/tech_internet_virus_ dc_4

Someone is going to click that exe. I can feel it. I know it is not obvious to casual computer users that one should not do this, but with all the press and other warnings, you would think people could refrain.

. . : slicePuzzle

If I don't know who an email is from I just delete it straight away. Recently I have been getting dozens of "Fwd re Fwd" emails. Just delete them regardless of the promises of "hugeness" or the like

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I think it's high time to put a smack down on spammers. I ever meet somebody in person, and they tell me they're a spammer, I'll sock them gladly. Worse than telemarketers.

the emails that are really annoying me are the pseudo Microsoft Network Security Patch Update emails...I've set up a rule in Outlook to permanently delete them upon receipt...

i've got a fix for the telemarketers...i got rid of my home phone and only use a cell phone...I've never received a call from a telemarketer on my cellphone

Or you can just put your number on the National Do Not Call registry.
http://www.donotcall.gov

It takes a month to become active but on the day they tell you your number is on the list the calls stop completely. I was amazed.

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.i got rid of my home phone and only use a cell phone

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yep. that's what I did works like a charm

Later,

C:\


~Binary is best~