At 17:58 08/02/2005, you wrote:
4% sounds small. It's not small. I'll take 4% of a
trillion dollars (USD) any day of the week.
Very true!!
I recall way back in the early 1980s when the first PCs appeared and
software for them was not plentiful, someone (who shall be nameless)
telling me: If you
These returned emails are coming more and more frequently, and I'm getting
very concerned. What can I do about them? How can I tell if there's a
vulnerability on my machine? I have the headers in most cases, is there
someone I can complain to? Shouldn't I be able to determine the host where
Diane
I am getting quite a few of these too. AVG tells me they all have viruses.
It is just another device of the nasty creatures that are trying either to
get your email address for their lists, or trying to lure you into giving
private (financial) information, or maybe take over your machine.
I had to resend this, as my previous subject wasn't allowed through.
I'm getting a lot of undeliverable email notices that email could not be
delivered to addresses I've never heard of. These are emails I know I
didn't send. Nor do I want my domain associated with any of them! Many of
these
Unfortunately, this is a common problem -- spammers use the e-mail addy or
domain of some person rather than a fictitious one.
Typically, this happens when you report spam to their ISP or via SpamCop and
they find out and do this in retaliation.
Interesting note: I read that of the billions
It may be spammers retaliating...or your system could
be a zombie that actually is sending out these emails,
unbeknownst to you, as a background program installed
by an intruder.
Why do the spammers send email to billions rather than
the 4% who respond?
First, the 4% of billions represents
I read somewhere that 60% of all e-mail sent is spam! Imagine the
difference is cost (not to mention aggravation) if there was no spam
e-mail!!
Riva
Dwayne Conyers wrote:
Interesting note: I read that of the billions of spam that flood the net, only
4% reap results in the form of some person
I read somewhere that 60% of all e-mail sent is spam! Imagine the
difference is cost (not to mention aggravation) if there was no spam e-mail!!
I believe it's over 80% now.
I have learnt that the 'medical' name for Levitra is 'tadalafil'. I think
that's a splendid name, like the 'ta-da' noise
I think it's probably higher than that.
Diane
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I read somewhere that
Well, no one has anything to retaliate to, though that may shortly change.
Is there a way to check if my machine is being used as a zombie?
Diane
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