OT: Virus Wars

[Atrocities]

In the Last twenty four hours I have received over 100 email virus between my three email accounts including my AST accounts, and my Earthlink account.

I thought Earthlink filtered these out.

Also spam is way up on my AST accounts. startrekmod and Atrocities are getting flooded.

WHO SOLD MY ACCOUNT INFO!!!! I mean

[Fyron]

Posting email address on web sites and public forums can get them captured by web spiders, which go around collecting email addresses for spam lists...

[Kamog]

Yeah, recently I've been getting a few suspicious emails with mystery attachments, too. I immediately delete those.

[Paul1980au]

Say my email address is goeblog@worldcom.com

That would get spammed - alternative is goeblog at worldcom dot com - this negates web crawlign spiders

Doesnt stop spammers getting it by manual means but reduces the potential - if you use such web forums get a hotmail or yahoo address and use as an alternative account to youre main personal account - you can use that and just have it set to contacts from certain forums and no others. Or just use private message - its about protection.

ISPs dont really filter emails - cause mostly they also are the source.

[Atrocities]

I think I read that there was a virus war going on between some virus makers.

That would be a war between Nortan and some other anti virus company. After all they are the ones making these virus, how else would they stay in business?

Think about it, you have a rogue operation making viruses so your parent cooperation can sell anti virus software and subscriptions to updates.

A sick little plan that I am sure Bill Gates wished he would have thought up.

[Fyron]

That would get spammed - alternative is goeblog at worldcom dot com - this negates web crawlign spiders

Actually... it would be just as easy to program a spider to pick up on that as it would with the actual @ and .