Yes, Outlook and Windows are a very dangerous combination if you want
to spread SPAM and receive it too, I read somewhere that Microsoft
are actually retiring Outlook Distress completely now because of its
vonerabilities, security risks etc.
The most annoying thing about this all in my view is that you run
what I've said (which is well documented) past people who ought to
know better, who are doing tech support work and who are paid to keep
clients computers secure and they just laugh, ah well, at least some
people are a wake up and if everyone stopped using Outlook DE Pest
then the amount of SPAM on the Internet would decrease drastically.
On 21/05/2007, at 6:42 AM, James Austin wrote:
Hi Gabe and Dne,
To be honest, I didn't know that, and it makes sense to me, thanks
Dane for explaining your statement.
Best James
On 20 May 2007, at 20:36, Gabe Vega wrote:
nope, we all knew that, I am looking for an expanded explanation on
why again, spam's existance is due to outlook express and windows.
those wanna b techs you know always throwin out terms and such but
not really know of what they speak.
On May 20, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Ah, now I'm surprised that a person who calls himself a computer
tech wiz (I'm assuming that's what you are supposed to be) should
even have to ask this but for the benefit of other list members
who would probably have actually asked in a polite manner about my
email then I'll gladly answer, those ignorant so-called "tech-
types" may wish to delete or not read the following as it is
directed to the "non-arrogant" amongst us <smile>.
I said in my previous message that a great source of SPAM was
Outlook Depress and Windows and why? Well the main reason being
that Outlook transmits a users address book all over the place and
your average firewall doesn't block this transmission as its
deemed "friendly data". The solution? Well that's pretty obvious
really, use a Mac <smile>. or if you have to use Windows, use an
email client which doesn't rely on shared resources such as the
Windows address book for its data, such clients include Eudora,
Thunderbird and so on.
On 21/05/2007, at 5:20 AM, Gabe Vega wrote:
this was the most ignorent non thought out email i e er read.
Can you explain why using windows and outlookexpress contribute to
spam's existance?
On May 20, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Well its not the Mac's fault actually, the main cause of SPAM
problems are those who insist on using Whine-Dows and Outlook
Depress.
On 21/05/2007, at 2:15 AM, Christopher Hallsworth wrote:
Hi all,
Well I'm amazed. On a mac they claim you can't have viruses and
other
forms of malware, but you can still have spam? I know how spam is
delivered, but I'm just shocked to hear that someone may be
receiving
spam through Skype. Any thoughts on this? Thanks.
Christopher Hallsworth
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Dane Trethowan
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