The spam is not coming from the user lists as such. Spammers tend to attack those service providers which have the least security. With the Braille Note you are pretty much at the mercy of your ISP to provide spam blockage. If they don't, about all you can do is delete them before opening them for best virus protection. If you do not know who the message is from or if it does not have the name of the user list you are on then delete it before opening it.
If you are receiving your e-mail on a PC before downloading it to your Braille Note then you could add additional protection by installing a firewall. You have to be careful in setting up the firewall though or you might block messages you really want. You can check with your ISP (Lisa, in your case, Earthlink) and have them assist you in spam blockage. Rich Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of lunderwood Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 8:59 AM To: Braillenote List Subject: Re: [Braillenote] suspicious emails Yes, I get several of them daily. I do a shift delete to make sure they aren't in my deleted items. I had someone check on them. They truly are spam and since I am on several lists, we figure they were coming from one of them. Since you are getting them as well, they are probably on this list. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brenda Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:39 PM Subject: re: [Braillenote] suspicious emails > You're being spammed. Those people who have microsoft terminals with a hard disk drive may fall for this. Our systems are programmed on chips. > Don't download anything from this stuff. > Brenda Mueller > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >From: Lisa Ehlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [email protected] > >Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 09:33:19 +1000 > >Subject: [Braillenote] suspicious emails > > >Hi Listers, > >I have been receiving some suspicious emails. One of them is coming from Microsoft supposbly. The subject line says something about a patch for security that needs to be installed immediately. I have been deleting them but they show up daily. Also I am getting other suspicious emails when I try to reply to the sender the message bounces back saying that the ISP doesn't exist. , have been deleting these suspicious messages too. I'm not trying to accuse anyone here of sending me these weird emails. I am just hoping that the BN doesn't get a virus from all of this weirdness. I don't ever open attachments just to be on the safe side. > >Has anyone else experienced this especially the one from Microsoft? Thanks for your time and your help. Basically I want to make sure I am not supposed to be doing anything with the Microsoft patch like installing it. I figured if I was supposed to PDI would have sent something which to the list which goes to show how nice PDI is. > >Thanks. > >Lisa > > > >___ > >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
