I doubt that these are coming from the cookies on your machine. Once a spammer determines your email address is "valid", they will put it in a list and sell the list to other spammers. so you get lots of offers for things you don't want.
The various ways of getting valid email addresses are indeed various and easy. Placing spyware on your machine is actually not a high priority approach, because it takes more work than is necessary. The spyware folks tend to be looking for more lucrative things stord on a computer than who is in your email address book, they are more concerned with getting your account passwords and credit info (this is a big problem in the windoze world, very minor in the Mac world). On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 11:38 AM, Bernard A Griffis wrote: > Thanks, Jerry, for your response. We, the struggling geeks, are > dependent > on you guys to fill the void in our learning. That sweet lady, Marta, > gave > me a book on OSX and I get dizzy reading it. I receive email with my > address (email) and my name. This mail is for enhancement products, > home > mortgages, health services, porn sites, etc., etc. I have not > responded to > any of these. In listening to the Sunday tech support show, I heard > about > spies (how I don't know) being placed in your hard drive. I'm sure > this is > true and I would like to extricate them. > Thank you and Lee, again. Bernie > > Jerry Yeager wrote: > >> Uh, could you fine tune your request a bit as far as what you are >> looking for? >> >> Jerry >> >> p.s. If you watch the action movies closely, you might notice that the >> "good" spies use Macs and the "bad" spies use windoze. >> >> On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 10:10 PM, Bernard A Griffis wrote: >> >>> I was listening to Bob Sokolor and he again discussed SpyBot. Is >>> there >>> a >>> spy tool for the Mac? Thank you. Bernie >>> >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be July 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >>> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be July 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be August 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
