>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Margot >Sent: Monday, 1 September 2003 5:49 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] I bin spoofed! > >I know what you mean - it just makes me so angry. My godmother is 76 and >is a writer and teacher. She mainly uses her computer as a glorified >typewriter, but uses email occsionally to communicate with friends who >live abroad. I made sure she has antivirus and firewall running, but she >is still scared to check her email unless I'm there with her. So far, no >viruses, but increasing amounts of spam, mainly offering her access to >porn sites - in Italian! She teaches Spanish, and I don't speak either >Italian or Spanish, so when these messages started arriving I naturally >assumed they were from Spanish friends - until she pointed out that they >weren't Spanish,certainly weren't from friends, and roughly translated >them for me! I've set up filters to try to prevent them, but they keep >getting through by using different email addresses. Isn't the internet >wonderful? > >Margot > FRANKI:
The internet is wonderful... its just evolving abit now, spamassasin or some other variant has become a necessity nowdays and pretty soon all ISP's will run some form of email virus scanning like many of us do on our own mail servers. The internet is such a wonderful source of resources. I couldn't handle my work without it now. Its the a$$holes that try to turn it into a cash cow by spamming anyone that can find, or the losers that think its cool to write virus's (sorta like the losers that graffiti walls). Finially the losers like M$ that make software that just lends itself to the cause of any miscreant that has a need to spread misery. :-) rgds Franki
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