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| 176332 | 2003-09-23 04:50:00 | > Is there any common thread that > victims of such overkill can follow up to protect > themselves in future? > > Is something fundamentally out of whack here. ?:| > > Cheers > > Billy 8-{) Billy, I think you'll find that the lower levels of viruses you receive is based on the level of intelligence of the people that you use email to converse with. If they're protected it also increases your protection. I also don't get any viruses or spams to my main email accounts. The only recent viruses I've received have been when someone has said via instant messaging to me "I got another virus today in the mail" or something to that affect and I request that they send it to me. I can then disable NAV and still not get infected by it. I get spam and viruses by the bucket load to hotmail accounts though. Everything else is spam free apart from one of my other addresses which is solely used for posting news on a website which is rather high up in some google searh results so is expected that the bots will be crawling the site periodically. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 176333 | 2003-09-23 04:56:00 | Yes godfather I know that, but sometimes I act without thinking. In fact while I was sending them I was thinking, "That's fixed that **** and his viruses. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 176334 | 2003-09-23 08:13:00 | > Don't get too smug Billy T the reason you are not > getting these emails is just luck and nothing to do > with your pure surfing habits . I'm not smug Jim, and no, my surfing habits are not pure . I have a huge email address book, and I am guilty of forwarding jokes and other time-wasting trivia from time to time . My comments were aimed at prompting debate that might help identify some rationale behind the wide disparity in spam and virus experience among PF1'ers . It may be just a matter of chance, but somehow I don't really think that is likely . There must be some points of difference that could allow us all to minimise our risk . There must be something different about the way we operate our systems that allows such a wide variation in experience, even if it finally comes down to the good or bad habits of the people we correspond with . For example, I have one email address similar to [jack at free dot net dot nz] for my son, I have had it for 3 years now and prior to us it was used by a young guy whose tastes ranged from game sites and self-help career advisors, through to an eclectic range of porn providers . He subscribed widely but not wisely and it took months to get them all unsubscribed, though the exercise was helped immensely by the generally poor security protocols which gave me access to his logon names and passwords with relative ease . One site even gave me his full personal details including CV, phone number and address! We eventually cleaned it up and now we are down to 2-3 spams a day on that address . My point is that even used and abused email addresses do not invite floods of spam, and no virus emails have turned up yet . And so, the search for enlightenment goes on . :| Cheers Billy 8-{) :| |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 176335 | 2003-09-23 11:47:00 | Any ISP you only need to add abuse in front and they are usually very quick to answer. I have done it frquently requesting the removal of the spammer and I would say I was about 85% successful. If everyone was to do the same it would certainly destroy most spammers. What gets me is you can filter spam but by doing that you are doing nothing to get rid of it and unless you are deleting it at the server it is still costing you. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 176336 | 2003-09-23 11:51:00 | If Nav let them through can you really blame Xtra. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 176337 | 2003-09-23 19:54:00 | Qwest IP Abuse abuse@qwest.net +1-877-886-6515 Qwest IP Admin ipadmin@qwest.com +1-877-886-6515 Qwest IP NOC support@qwestip.net +1-877-886-6515 Above is some of the contact details for qwest.net |
Gordon. (2217) | ||
| 176338 | 2003-09-23 20:49:00 | abuse-nonverbose@qwest.net. is even better. You don't get a machine reply | JJJJJ (528) | ||
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