Jasper
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 posted on 20/10/02 at 06:38 PM |
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John Morton Spam
Anybody else had these? They've come from this site as I have a site specific email address. There was an attachment which I just deleted.
Anymore spams and I'm gonna take my email off, just be contacted via U2U.
Chris, is their no way to stop this?
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 20/10/02 at 08:52 PM |
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ive had a couple,something to do with goldfish,then my virus alert went off,dont know if its him sending a virus,just a bit suss.
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bob
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| posted on 20/10/02 at 10:45 PM |
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Mine are coming via ntl world,i just went to settings and barred the sender.
Looks like i might revert to no e-mail again and use the u2u,didnt get moyo dickson when e-mail was off.
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 20/10/02 at 11:13 PM |
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john morton IS sending viruses.
I have had at least 10 from him today.
my norton virus program is trapping a virus at least every 3 days.
if you dont have a virus program on your pc you take a big risk.
atb
steve
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James
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| posted on 21/10/02 at 11:32 AM |
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quote:
Chris, is their no way to stop this?
Yes, just put *delete* or *nospam* or something in the middle of your e-mail address. Programs trawling the web pulling addresses will then pick up
this new address and mail will be sent to that (which obviously doesn't exist so doesn't matter).
Meanwhile if someone wants to mail you when they click your mail icon it shows the address so they can manually remove the *delete* etc.
That wasn't a very good explanation but doing this works for me. I haven't had any new Spam since doing it. If only I'd got round to it before Moyo
Dickson found me!!!
Cheers,
James
[Edited on 21/10/02 by James]
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ChrisW
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| posted on 21/10/02 at 01:29 PM |
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There's nothing I can do about it I'm afraid guys - we are all at the peril of someone opening a virus and unknowingly spamming their addressbook.
The best thing is to stop things at their source and either don't open exe/pif/bat/scr files or run a decent virus checker like Norton or McAfee.
It doesn't matter how many *nospam* etc ways u try to hide your address - if someone has emailled you on that address you're in their addressbook
and you will get hit if they're stupid enough to open a virus!
Chris
[Edited on 10/21/02 by ChrisW]
My gaff my rules
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James
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| posted on 22/10/02 at 11:57 AM |
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quote:
It doesn't matter how many *nospam* etc ways u try to hide your address - if someone has emailled you on that address you're in their addressbook
and you will get hit if they're stupid enough to open a virus!
Chris
[Edited on 10/21/02 by ChrisW]
Yeah, sorry. Doing what I said will only help stop you getting spam, not viruses from people who already have you're address.
What these programs (viruses) rely on is people who can't be bothered to find out about getting up to date virus protection and who are unobservant
enough that they just run anything that is sent to them. Even with all the current media hype and interest over viruses it still seems people are just
not bothering.
Even in a highly IT literate company such as mine where we have a dozen or so full time employees dedicated to virus protection plus others (like me)
who do it as part of their job we still can't stop them!
A fact of life I now think. 
BR,
James
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