Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-22 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 1:27 PM 09/21/03, David W. Fenton wrote: >Most of the exploits of the past 2-3 years have depended on the idea >that a human would execute them in order to infect the local machine. >This is one of the reasons why I trash all HTML email messages (this >is the best single spam filter there is),

Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-22 Thread Carl Donsbach
--On Saturday, September 20, 2003 12:23 PM -0400 John Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: "Noel Stoutenburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One way which appears to be quite useful in avoiding worms and virii is to switch to an email client not made by Microsoft Can you suggest some? Thanks. Mulberry <

Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-22 Thread Weldon Whipple
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, David W. Fenton wrote: > On 20 Sep 2003 at 12:23, John Hines wrote: > > > From: "Noel Stoutenburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > One way which > > > appears to be quite useful in avoiding worms and virii is to switch > > > to an email client not made by Microsoft > > > > Can y

Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-21 Thread David W. Fenton
On 21 Sep 2003 at 6:48, David H. Bailey wrote: > At the risk of tempting fate, this morning was the first time in a > couple of weeks that I was able to download my email and not have any > infected with a virus. I only received two such infected email messages, and my email address is all over

Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-21 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 06:48 AM 9/21/2003 -0400, David H. Bailey wrote: At the risk of tempting fate, this morning was the first time in a couple of weeks that I was able to download my email and not have any infected with a virus. I think that one wave or another will be with us for some time to come, simply beca

Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-21 Thread David H. Bailey
At the risk of tempting fate, this morning was the first time in a couple of weeks that I was able to download my email and not have any infected with a virus. I think that one wave or another will be with us for some time to come, simply because there aren't virus-catching programs running at

Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-20 Thread Richard Huggins
Can we expect this current spam attack to die a natural death or is it self-perpetuating, ad infinitum? It's quite a problem at present. --Richard ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-20 Thread David W. Fenton
On 20 Sep 2003 at 12:14, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > I have been using Netscape, but changed over recently to Mozilla (same > software, different wrapping). Eudora is another. I suspect, too, > that most ISP's offer a web-based email interface which allows you to > examine emails while still on th

Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-20 Thread David W. Fenton
On 20 Sep 2003 at 12:23, John Hines wrote: > From: "Noel Stoutenburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > One way which > > appears to be quite useful in avoiding worms and virii is to switch > > to an email client not made by Microsoft > > Can you suggest some? Thanks. For my clients, these are the tw

Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-20 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
John Hines wrote: From: "Noel Stoutenburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One way which appears to be quite useful in avoiding worms and virii is to switch to an email client not made by Microsoft Can you suggest some? Thanks. I have been using Netscape, but changed over recently to Mozilla (sam

Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-20 Thread John Hines
From: "Noel Stoutenburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > One way which > appears to be quite useful in avoiding worms and virii is to switch to > an email client not made by Microsoft Can you suggest some? Thanks. JH ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-20 Thread Brad Beyenhof
Noel Stoutenburg suggested: > David McKay wrote: > > >I am in the process of changing my email address to avoid > SPAM and viruses. If I unsub using my old email address and > resubscribe using my new address, will this make me a target > for SPAM and viruses? > >Can people get my email addres

Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-20 Thread Colin Broom
- Original Message - From: "Johannes Gebauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Finale list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 2:04 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses > On 20.09.2003 11:14 Uhr, David McKay wrote &

Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-20 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 03:04 PM 9/20/03 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >On 20.09.2003 11:14 Uhr, David McKay wrote > >> At the moment I am receiving a deluge of viruses purporting to be messages >> from Microsoft or mail undelivered messages. > >Same here, a real nuissance! Nuisance is an understatement. I got 1,195

Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-20 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 20.09.2003 11:14 Uhr, David McKay wrote > At the moment I am receiving a deluge of viruses purporting to be messages > from Microsoft or mail undelivered messages. Same here, a real nuissance! Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___

Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-20 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
David McKay wrote: I am in the process of changing my email address to avoid SPAM and viruses. If I unsub using my old email address and resubscribe using my new address, will this make me a target for SPAM and viruses? Can people get my email address who are not members? Yes. Most viruses and

[Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-20 Thread David McKay
I am in the process of changing my email address to avoid SPAM and viruses. If I unsub using my old email address and resubscribe using my new address, will this make me a target for SPAM and viruses? Can people get my email address who are not members? With web-based email lists, I can stop getti