At 00:56 -0500 03/31/2003, Nancy Haitz wrote: >> On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 11:46 PM, Jeff Walther wrote: >> >> Anyone else getting a bunch of PC virus SPAM ... > >Not be either. > >However, I have been wondering about the same sort of thing. I keep >getting similar SPAM and/or virus email from a web address of >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Jeff, is the stuff you are getting all coming from the same address?
Hi Nancy, Much of it is faked to appear that it comes from Microsoft. Other pieces have various addresses. I'm getting at least one a day, and while I've mostly learned to tolerate and quickly delete SPAM, I detest receiving unsolicited attachments. These all come with a 152K attachment and I'm on dial up. Anyway, as Alan pointed out, it's one of the PC viruses which infects a PC, harvests email addresses from MS Outlook and sends messages with fake headers to those addresses. So, if you're getting a lot of this stuff, as I am, it's got to be coming from someone who has your email address in their Outlook box. Now that could be any of many many folks, but I figured the denizens of the LEM lists was a good place to start. Of course, it could also be a SPAMer whose computer is infected and so unintentionally sending extra SPAM to his entire SPAM address collection. I was just hoping for an easy solution of finding a LEMer who was the victim and could shut the evil virus down. Jeff Walther -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
