Nick:
I'm a slightly above newbie internet user - I'm contacting you out of frustration. I googled back to your commentary about Mediacolumn Marketing and your conversation with Chris Miseresky there (from September 10). One of my hotmail based kids must have hit one of their pages, opening a door to getting a Mirer(sp?) bar on my IE browser.
Steve Sloan's suggestion is the same that I'd offer. I didn't know that those guys are also distributing adware, but it doesn't surprise me.
We got hit by them three times and their ISP, Cogent, did nothing. And we got hit by other spammers by way of Cogent, which prompted me to do some searching about them. Cogent has a terrible reputation for tolerating -- or at least failing to intervene promptly -- spammers.
And sadly, we also found that some spammers were successful in abusing our proxy server to distribute their junk. It's secure now -- we've had several spam-blocking organizations test it. Despite that, a spammer from China continued to try to use it for at least a week, sending thousands of messages, which went nowhere, of course. His ISP, Cable & Wireless, didn't do anything, either, despite three complaints.
Nick
-- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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