[or-roots] Spam

[Connie Guardino]

This is driving me wild! I have Nortons and I'm still getting
"returned/rejected" mail. And, as of yesterday, I'm getting skads of
"unsubscribe" mail intended for the Downtown Racine Association. I heard from
them this morning and they said it was a virus. I hope THAT email wasn't a
virus. I don't really know how viruses work, but I'm getting very concerned.

Chris Havnar wrote:

> Cecil,
>
> FYI - one of the SPAM/Virus ploys is "returned/rejected" mail.  We have 4
> accounts that have **NEVER** sent mail to anyone.  One we got for son's
> girlfriend, but she has not used it.  Those accounts have had mail returned
> to them as well as the accounts actively used by me and my husband but
> funny thing .... I never sent the attachments being returned.
>
> I do recommend that folks use a virus program, McAfee/Nortons - I'm sure
> there are others, the $$ are well worth the peace provided when the virus
> program identifies a bad message, and I get to delete the attachment.
>
> I also will write to someone that sent me an attachment that I was not
> expecting to ask about what the attachment is.
>
> As Hill Street Blues always said, be careful out there.
>
> Chris
>
> At 12:15 AM 3/31/2004 -0800, Cecil Houk wrote:
> >>>>
> Hi listers:
>
> SNIP
>
> Some of you may have received spam mail that "seems" to have come from my
> @cox.net or @yahoo.com addresses.  Those are from a virus that reads the
> address book of people who I have been in contact with me.  (Sorry about
> that.)  I quite frequently receive rejected e-mail sent "by me" to people I
> don't know.
>
> I own no stock in McAfee, but... I use SpamKiller.  There are feebees out
> there.  Use them!!
>
> Cecil
>
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