[or-roots] blankety blank spam etc

[Cecil Houk]

Les, I think you misspelled "darn things".

Cecil


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Chapman" <khanjehgil at presys.com>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 8:29 AM
Subject: [or-roots] blankety blank spam etc


> Cecil;
> 
> I don't really understand all the whys and wherefores of the the programming
> it takes, and I wish that all those hackers that take such delight in doing
> this would roll there programming books into a pipe as the Persians say, but
> I have quit getting worried about getting messages that I had sent a bogus
> email out, I thought at first I had a virus on my machine, but it is
> somebody else who has my address that their virus is using.
> 
> What really burns me is that the distinction between viruses and spam is
> narrowing. Now it appears that spam is essentially a virus with a commercial
> message that doesn't harm you computer other than bogging it down and tying
> up resources. The ones that reaaaaaaly irk me are the ones with gibberish to
> try and foil spam blockers. I did get one yesterday that was almost like a
> series of hiakus though.
> 
> I have given up and just delete the darn things.
> 
> Les C
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
> [mailto:or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us]On Behalf Of Cecil Houk
> Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 7:25 AM
> To: WASHINGTON-L at rootsweb.com; or-roots; OREGON-L at rootsweb.com
> Subject: [or-roots] Off topic but VERY important
> 
> 
> I don't know why there are so many people out there who are trying to
> destroy the internet, but they are there.
> 
> My ISP is Cox Cable San Diego.  As of April 1, 2004 they are filtering all
> e-mail in and out of @cox.net subscribers in this area for virus
> attachments.  When an incoming e-mail contains a virus attachment it is
> killed, and a form message is sent to the addressee stating the sender and
> the virus name.  I receive several of these warnings every day.  Some of
> them are warnings that I am sending a virus attachment to me!!!!
> 
> I am running McAfee's "Virus Scan" on this computer (from day one), and
> about 1 hour ago I got a warning that a Trojan had been received from a web
> page I accessed (a web page about Tom Cruise and "Born On The Fourth Of
> July"); which I "cleaned/deleted" as fast as I could.
> 
> I don't know what, if any thing, that Trojan did, but I do know this:  As
> soon as I can, I will be using one computer for nothing but e-mail, and
> another for internet surfing that will NOT have my address book (or any
> e-mail software) on it!
> 
> I don't know how the creep people do it, but a couple of years ago a porno
> link was posted to or-roots that seemed to have come from me.  Most of the
> garbage I receive, trapped by McAfee's "Spam Killer", has bogus "from" IP's.
> 
> If you have received any e-mail that "seems to have come from me", with a
> virus attachment or spam... I didn't do it.  It came from someone who has me
> in their address book, and a "mass mail" worm/virus on their computer.
> 
> Now; back on topic.
> 
> Cecil
> 
> 
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