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Thread ID: 58953	2005-06-17 04:38:00	Warning....Spammers target domains with viri	personthingy (1670)	PC World Chat

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364570	2005-06-18 02:20:00	Is it spam? "The problem is not only that it gets through, but that firms don't know how to define it," explained Jos White, marketing director at e-mail security development firm MessageLabs. "With viruses it is easy, but one man's spam is potentially another's useful information." Filtering is difficult to implement because users are unable to agree on a definition of spam, MessageLabs claimed. According to the survey, 90 percent of UK respondents said that spam was promotional or marketing e-mail from someone they did not know, whereas 89 percent said that it was an e-mail containing information clearly irrelevant to their work. Eighty-one percent said it was news or information from someone they didn't know and 71 percent considered it to be an e-mail they did not request, regardless of content or sender. Only 29 percent said that a promotional e-mail from an organisation they know was spam, with only 12 percent saying the same for news or information from a source they recognised. In contrast nearly a third defined a mass circulation business e-mail from within the company as spam. The survey was carried out among 160 UK IT directors and managers and 200 general business managers across the US.	Cicero (40)
364571	2005-06-18 23:57:00	This might be true, but do we really need a thread for every virus going round? Of course not, but this does not happen here on PF1. (a thread for every virus) And you can always choose not to read the thread! :D	Strommer (42)
364572	2005-06-19 00:38:00	Of course not, but this does not happen here on PF1. (a thread for every virus) And you can always choose not to read the thread! :D Have a go at talking to a wall,you will get similar results. :)	Cicero (40)
364573	2005-06-19 03:45:00	2points: 1 . For ninja . If you would be so kind as to send me your email address, i may then submit any future posts to you for approval . Would that make you happy? Would anything? 2 . I thought a virus that guessed addresses within a domain and sent them an officious looking spammy email claiming to be from the domains adminastraters was new . I've been on the net forever, and i've never seen the result of anything that guessed usernames before . I considered it novel enough to be worth sharing . :stare: Have a nice day!!!!! :D	personthingy (1670)
364574	2005-06-19 04:04:00	1. For ninja. If you would be so kind as to send me your email address, i may then submit any future posts to you for approval. Would that make you happy? Would anything?I can think of nothing worse than interacting with you on a personal level. 2. I thought a virus that guessed addresses within a domain and sent them an officious looking spammy email claiming to be from the domains adminastraters was new. I've been on the net forever, and i've never seen the result of anything that guessed usernames before. I considered it novel enough to be worth sharing.Not new, been round for about 2 years now.	ninja (1671)
364575	2005-06-19 04:12:00	I've been on the net forever, and i've never seen the result of anything that guessed usernames before . I had the same thoughts PT . When the first one arrived in my mailbox it caused me to pause to draw breath, then wonder if my system security had been compromised, but then I realised it had no more information than could be harvested from an infected computer that had received an email from me so I relaxed . I have received three variations so far, all using my domain name of course, and playing on the fact that 'anything'@my domain name . co . nz would be accepted and delivered, unlike any ordinary email address that would simply go nowhere if it was not correct in every detail . That seems to be a weakness in the Domain name email system . It gives you an infinite number of alias addresses you can use to allow sorting of replies by topic or department, but it also means that usernames can be guessed (or just created) by the people who want to circulate viruses instead of getting a life . Cheers Billy 8-{) :rolleyes:	Billy T (70)
364576	2005-06-19 04:59:00	[QUOTE=ninja]I can think of nothing worse than interacting with you on a personal level. Or any human for that matter.Ninja Turtles perhaps.	Cicero (40)
364577	2005-06-19 06:01:00	1. For ninja. If you would be so kind as to send me your email address, I may then submit any future posts to you for approval. Would that make you happy? Would anything? I can think of nothing worse than interacting with you on a personal level. Irony n. Expression of meaning by language of opposite or different tendency. 'Own goal' I believe ninja, not enough jiggahurtz perhaps? Cheers Billy 8-{) ;)	Billy T (70)
364578	2005-06-19 06:05:00	Irony n. Expression of meaning by language of opposite or different tendency. 'Own goal' I believe ninja, not enough jiggahurtz perhaps? Cheers Billy 8-{) ;) You are too nice B. ;)	Cicero (40)
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