What I wonder about is the dumber than usual spam that I have been getting lately with gibberish messages. I would think they were virus carriers except none of them has ever shown up with an attachment, nor failed the virus scan, Some more juvenile "look at what I can do" crap I guess.
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Boros Attila wrote:
he's got that email address published on his website and it was somehow harvested. There could be a chance that you got it from your website's exposure too? If you want to test it, you could create a new
address and secretly insert it in a really tiny font or same colour as the background or as a junk string in your source, then leave it for a week to see if it gets infected too?
This is happening too often;( Usually if you post something on the net, you leave your e-mail address, so people can contact you, comment on your post, etc. It is more common in these days to obfuscate your e-mail address. By "obfuscation" I mean writing it so that those harvesters wouldn't detect it as being an e-mail address. For example: attila at atn dot ro.
If you need an e-mail link on your webpage you may want to encode it, putting in your html source something like: attila@atn.r f; any browser will make a correct interpretation of these codes, displaying [EMAIL PROTECTED] Most harvesters won't bother, they are just searching for the @.
You may want to check out this free e-mail link obfuscator: http://www.zapyon.de/spam-me-not/index.html
Attila
-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com
"You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway."
