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| Rocco |
... and i'm not talking about corn beef. Lately i've been getting tons of viruses on all my email account. ALL have attatchments and the most common attatchment is .pif.
What's even funny is sometimes it's a .zip and there is an authorization code. Why is there a sudden outbreak? Maybe some type of terorism? Acordding to McaFee, the vriuses (email worms) are very active in North America now. |
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| DigiNut |
I guess that's what happens when spammers catch worms. The black-market Viagra merchants are probably too lazy and stupid to actually get antivirus software, so the worms infect their spam programs and they get mailed out to everyone. I get at least 5 worms mailed to me per day from "Elene" < [email protected] >, finally I realized they were all coming from the same address and I blocked it.
It's a symptom of the idiocy of many and the cleverness of a few. Not much more to say about it. |
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| StereoPrincess |
| my u of t account is insane with viruses. I get like 3 a day. I think it's ridiculous since a University should be advanced enough to be protected. And they are really scammers too because the mail always says document attached and thanks for the document here are my changes. And those are legit emails I get too on a reg basis so its so possible to catch a virus that way. Thank god for having symantec anti-virus at home, but at school its a different story, the anti-sirus doesn't work on incoming emails. |
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| mr. poopyhead |
| personally, i think the new hotmail is doing a bang up job of filtering out the spam, and my school email is clean too... |
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| Slag |
my hotmail acct is clean, my new rogers acct is clean, my old rogers acct is a goody bag of spam and virii
Boo spam! |
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| AmbiguousBliss |
| quote: | Originally posted by mr. poopyhead
personally, i think the new hotmail is doing a bang up job of filtering out the spam |
T'is the exact opposite for me. I get soooo much spam. Then again, I don't exactly expect much from Hotmail... :rolleyes: |
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| Fir3start3r |
I hear your pain...
I'm going to have to change my Rogers email account too...
Just waaaaay too much e....:whip: :mad: |
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| j_spot |
I recently just gave up a account of 3 years
I get some 200 msg to my inbox +300 to my spam box per day
Its too much
but my hotmail is clean, it filters well. |
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| AmbiguousBliss |
| quote: | Originally posted by j_spot
I recently just gave up a account of 3 years
I get some 200 msg to my inbox +300 to my spam box per day
Its too much
but my hotmail is clean, it filters well. |
I've had this same one for some 6/7 years and I don't want to give it up now... :( |
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| Rocco |
my univ account is awsome when it comes to spam. Those IT nerds downstairs are really doing a good job.
my rogers is falling under... thank god for Mcafee email virusscan... both rogers accounts... my hotmail is semi ok... my tranceaddict.net account is the best when it comes to spam. i seem to be getting ALL of them. |
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| Slag |
| quote: | Originally posted by Rocco
Those IT nerds |
hey!
What about you? |
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| DigiNut |
Rogers is terrible and so are any Hotmail accounts created over a year or so ago. I registered a domain and created a few forwarding addresses that I now use for public e-mail, one that's strictly for business use, one for friends and one for web sites that require an e-mail address for activation and stuff like that. Hotmail is useless to me because there's no POP access and tons of security problems.
All those three addresses of course forward to the same address, which is a new address that I created on Rogers at the same time I registered the domain; ironically, I'm getting spam (just a little bit) on the Rogers address even though I've never given it to another living soul and there would have been no way for anyone to track it (I send mail through a totally different account and only receive on my forwarding addresses).
Moral of the story: Someone at Rogers sells addresses. Not to as many people as they used to sell to, but frankly, 1 is too many. |
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