[or-roots] blankety blank spam etc

[Leslie Chapman]

Cecil;

I don't really understand all the whys and wherefores of the the programming
it takes, and I wish that all those hackers that take such delight in doing
this would roll there programming books into a pipe as the Persians say, but
I have quit getting worried about getting messages that I had sent a bogus
email out, I thought at first I had a virus on my machine, but it is
somebody else who has my address that their virus is using.

What really burns me is that the distinction between viruses and spam is
narrowing. Now it appears that spam is essentially a virus with a commercial
message that doesn't harm you computer other than bogging it down and tying
up resources. The ones that reaaaaaaly irk me are the ones with gibberish to
try and foil spam blockers. I did get one yesterday that was almost like a
series of hiakus though.

I have given up and just delete the darn things.

Les C

-----Original Message-----
From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us]On Behalf Of Cecil Houk
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 7:25 AM
To: WASHINGTON-L at rootsweb.com; or-roots; OREGON-L at rootsweb.com
Subject: [or-roots] Off topic but VERY important


I don't know why there are so many people out there who are trying to
destroy the internet, but they are there.

My ISP is Cox Cable San Diego.  As of April 1, 2004 they are filtering all
e-mail in and out of @cox.net subscribers in this area for virus
attachments.  When an incoming e-mail contains a virus attachment it is
killed, and a form message is sent to the addressee stating the sender and
the virus name.  I receive several of these warnings every day.  Some of
them are warnings that I am sending a virus attachment to me!!!!

I am running McAfee's "Virus Scan" on this computer (from day one), and
about 1 hour ago I got a warning that a Trojan had been received from a web
page I accessed (a web page about Tom Cruise and "Born On The Fourth Of
July"); which I "cleaned/deleted" as fast as I could.

I don't know what, if any thing, that Trojan did, but I do know this:  As
soon as I can, I will be using one computer for nothing but e-mail, and
another for internet surfing that will NOT have my address book (or any
e-mail software) on it!

I don't know how the creep people do it, but a couple of years ago a porno
link was posted to or-roots that seemed to have come from me.  Most of the
garbage I receive, trapped by McAfee's "Spam Killer", has bogus "from" IP's.

If you have received any e-mail that "seems to have come from me", with a
virus attachment or spam... I didn't do it.  It came from someone who has me
in their address book, and a "mass mail" worm/virus on their computer.

Now; back on topic.

Cecil


Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret.
PO Box 530833
San Diego CA 92153
FAX 619-428-6434
mailto:cchouk at cox.net
ANDERSON - BLAKELY - FORD - HOUK - KIMSEY - MOE - RULAFORD - SIMPSON
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