OT: Interesting Emails

[Baron Munchausen]

Yep...

Now that I use Mozilla for my email instead of Outlook Bug-Express I have set it to NOT load images and other URLs in emails. You are just telling the spammers that they have a live one when you look at the email unless you deliberately disconnect before viewing it.

I generally get several spam Messages a day but nothing like what most people get. I managed to keep my email address very private/restricted for a long time so I didn't get much spam and was still using OE out of habit/inertia. But I got a 'phishing' attack email that loaded some sort of automatic script (invoking IE despite my default browser being Mozilla) and tried to send me to a website in China a few months ago and that was it for OE. Now I'm using Mozilla and Mozilla mail exclusively. No more Ieeee or Oeeee problems for meeee!

[Electrum]

I usually recommend to my friends that, when they get their main E-mail account from their ISP, give it ONLY to immediate freinds & family, telling them not to pass it on w/o talking to them first. Then I suggest that they open a free accout like yahoo or hotmail & use it when asked by Online sites for an address. That way when it fills w/ junk, they can dump it & start a new one easily.

[Fyron]

Baron Munchausen said:
Yep...

Now that I use Mozilla for my email instead of Outlook Bug-Express I have set it to NOT load images and other URLs in emails. You are just telling the spammers that they have a live one when you look at the email unless you deliberately disconnect before viewing it.

I generally get several spam Messages a day but nothing like what most people get. I managed to keep my email address very private/restricted for a long time so I didn't get much spam and was still using OE out of habit/inertia. But I got a 'phishing' attack email that loaded some sort of automatic script (invoking IE despite my default browser being Mozilla) and tried to send me to a website in China a few months ago and that was it for OE. Now I'm using Mozilla and Mozilla mail exclusively. No more Ieeee or Oeeee problems for meeee!

I tend to have Iexplore.exe blocked by my firewall.

[Kamog]

I get those strange cryptic Messages too that seem to be just a collection of random words. I also get Messages with mystery attachments that I immediately delete.

[Baron Munchausen]

Yeah, I also have taken to blocking the 'Windows default' browser in my firewall. Only when I need to visit Windows Update do I unblock it.