Another good practice is to train yourself and friends how to properly send out a mass e-mail. One of the ways spammers harvest e-mail addresses is that they cull them from chain e-mails in which the recipients addresses have not been masked. Next time you have a cute little story you want to share with all your friends and family, put your e-mail address as the only one in the TO field. Everyone else should go in the BCC field (not CC). That way your list does not get harvested.
From: Carleton MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 22:09:50 -0400
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:32615] RE: virus
In my case, Comcast stops most of it before Outlook pulls it down to my
computer. The rest (not much) gets grabbed by Norton Anti-Spam or gets put
into junk mail by Outlook. I get maybe one spam every two days in my actual
Outlook in-box. My box also runs Norton Anti-Virus and the beta version of
Microsoft AntiSpyware (free). And there's hardware protection through the
router.
Carleton
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Bill Potts
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 18:35
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:32614] RE: virus
On the other hand, they might have been harvested, then spoofed. I often
receive messages purporting to come from me (at any of several addresses, as
I have multiple accounts). Fortunately I have three levels of virus
protection -- the mail server at wfpconsulting.com (which mainly does spam
blocking -- which provides some implicit virus protection), my local spam
blocker (MailWasher Pro, which also checks for viruses), and Norton
AntiVirus. Everyone needs to use virus protection software, at some level at
least, to screen incoming messages, no matter what email client they have.
These days, I also consider a spam blocker to be essential, although the
mail server's spam blocker ensures that very few get to the MailWasher Pro
stage.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Behalf Of David King
>Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 15:06
>To: U.S. Metric Association
>Subject: [USMA:32613] virus
>
>
>I think someone on this list has got a virus on their PC, which is
>causing random emails with attachments to be sent to the email address I
>use for this list. Viruses today send themselves out to email addresses
>on the infected PC's email address book, using one of those addresses
>picked at random for the "sender's" address, so I don't know who it was
>from, but the emails are 2 from this list and 2 unknown.
>
>I advise you all to check your PC for viruses.
>
>The infected emails I received appeared to be from [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>So someone who has all these addresses in their address book may be
>infected.
>
>And, note that usually these viruses only affect those who use either
>Outlook or Outlook Express for email. Mozilla Thunderbird, which I use,
>appears to be immune to email viruses.
>
>--
>David King
>
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