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Thread ID: 23823	2002-08-26 13:46:00	Do spamers know when I get their email?	Vince (406)	Press F1

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74083	2002-08-26 13:46:00	For some time now I have suspected that spamers know when I have received their emails. At first it was because when I got tired of just deleting spam, and setup filters to put them straight into the trash the offending sources changed their addresses slightly so as to bypass the filters. Recently it is virus infected email that Norton Antivirus caught and quarantined getting sent again and again; 13 times in the last 3 and a half hours: all from the same address...Krazy_chicken<krazy_chicken@hotmail.com> . Now its 14 times-twice since I started typing this! Vince	Vince (406)
74084	2002-08-26 14:00:00	What you describe is just how spammers work against us all, basically you do what we all do, so therefore they do what works around it, to some extent... Therefore they change their address regularly. The 13 viri? Well the sender just doesn't know they have a viri, they are still on line, and the viri is happy to breed in the general direction of anywhere that can be found, including you, yes 13 times..Viri are NOT personal vendetta from the sender. Usually only the sick little **** that wrote it in the first place is malicious. One thing i will say, when i see spam, i go into offline mode before viewing blocking and deleting it. The reason for this is that i have noticed more and more spam is loading images off servers.., and those servers, if nothing else can count how many times the mail has been opened	Chris Wilson (431)
74085	2002-08-26 14:38:00	i just got this Hi there, my name is Lisa. I saw your profile on ICQ and found it very interesting. I am new to the area and don't have any friends yet :=[ I recently purchesed web cam and looking for friends to talk to.... who knows maybe one day we'll be more then friends ;-) If you interested email me back at Lisa_414_Besony@hotmail.com and we can maybe video chat or exchange pictures. Hope to hear from you soon!! What do you reckon... 1. Lisa really wants to meet me? 2. If i reply and some spammer gets to know the address is monitored, and can even collects stats as to how long it took me to respond? I'm really stuck over this one. Clueless ]:)	Clueless (181)
74086	2002-08-26 14:50:00	:8} Thanks Chris I should have known that; I thought I did know that! The virus is sending itself isn't it!! Vince	Vince (406)
74087	2002-08-26 15:22:00	Hey Clueless....... Lisa's mine! She wrote to me first, exactly the same letter, the two-timing heartbreaker! Chris..	Chris Wilson (431)
74088	2002-08-26 15:41:00	Hey Vince... Good to see your AV program works OK!	Chris Wilson (431)
74089	2002-08-26 18:30:00	If you want to control spam better get a freeware program made by a kiwi called Mailwasher, available from www.mailwasher.net/ Two versions available, a beta and a stable version. Remove the tick that allows OE to check for and download mail and let mailwasher do it, you can blacklist people and bounce those messages back to the sender, makes your address appear to be no longer current. I started using it maybe 3 or 4 months ago, spam was around 40+ messages aday, it was down to about one or two when I last saw it. Another mate living in NZ uses it, was getting in excess of 200 spams a day in OE, now he only downloads to his computer genuine mail and the amout of spam he gets has dropped right off to almost nothing.	duckyduck (197)
74090	2002-08-27 01:47:00	Another thing to check and I know this sounds very basic but many people still have their preview pane open in Outlook Express which actually opens the mail so it can show it to you as a preview, this happens the instant you click on the offending email even if it is just to delete it. You have to set the preview pane options for every account, hotmail and newsgroups all start out with the preview pane on default setting. Also check your settings for read receipts as this can be another favourite way to confirm email addys	dipstick01 (445)
74091	2002-08-27 02:29:00	> Another thing to check and I know this sounds very > basic but many people still have their preview pane > open in Outlook Express which actually opens the mail > so it can show it to you as a preview, this happens > the instant you click on the offending email even if > it is just to delete it. You have to set the preview > pane options for every account, hotmail and > newsgroups all start out with the preview pane on > default setting. > > Also check your settings for read receipts as this > can be another favourite way to confirm email addys Very good advice there Dip...... Duckyduck, is that Mailwasher hard to set up? I get a bit bamboozled (probably the onset of Alzheimers LOL) and get confused over what settings to put in. Have tried before, but usually give up in exasperation BALDY :-)	Baldy (26)
74092	2002-08-27 02:40:00	MailWasher (http://www.mailwasher.net/) is very easy to set up, go ahead.	cadifan (286)
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