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May 18th, 2004, 01:31 AM
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Re: OT: PLEASE UPDATE
Heh...
After years of surfing the net in 'paranoid' mode (never post to a newsgroup with your real email address, kill all cookies after browser session, use anti-virus/firewall/proxy utilities) I've finally started getting spam. Apparently some of the very few people who actually had my email address were infected by the 'soBig' worm and once my email started getting used to send infection Messages it was harvested by a spammer somewhere. And now I get the viruses in my mailbox when the notices go out on public channels. Once you're 'known' you're 'known' and you can't undo it. At least I keep my NAV up-to-date and it protects me.
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May 18th, 2004, 01:40 AM
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Re: OT: PLEASE UPDATE
Scanned Last night.
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May 18th, 2004, 09:17 AM
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Re: OT: PLEASE UPDATE
Yep, I've suspected I've gotten virus mail from someone in the SEIV arena aswell, as that is almost the only ones outside sweden that has my e-mail adress, and all virus mails are from foreign senders.
What bugs me most are those mails that are being sent out from other computers with my mail adress as sender...
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May 18th, 2004, 09:42 AM
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Re: OT: PLEASE UPDATE
Simply bill the hackers with all the damage they cause.
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If I only could remember half the things I'd forgot, that would be a lot of stuff, I think - I don't know; I forgot!
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May 18th, 2004, 09:44 AM
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Re: OT: PLEASE UPDATE
Those addresses sounds french and could have been mine, but I don't think I'm infected at the moment (I have been infected a few months ago, and my provider warned me of several email user complaints). I've got all the latest Microsoft security patches installed, and I check my HD with AVG antivirus and adaware frequently...
I also get about 30 spam and virus emails each days ( surely more, as I've got ~100 filter rules set on my email server...). It's really a pain in the ***.
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May 18th, 2004, 03:47 PM
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Re: OT: PLEASE UPDATE
Okay here...knock on wood.
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May 18th, 2004, 04:01 PM
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Re: OT: PLEASE UPDATE
Im not really susceptable. I read my emails on a linux machine in text mode. Much faster. I have a popmail address I forward things to if they include graphics and I know the place they came from.
That doesnt mean I dont check anyway but so far the arrangment has kept me worry-free. Another advantage is that the linux address is a throw-away and the popmail one is a "real" address. So if the traffic gets messier than its worth I just kill the linux mailbox and make another.
[ May 18, 2004, 15:01: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]
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