Malicious E-mails and Spam

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mesklin
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Malicious E-mails and Spam

Post by mesklin » Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:09 am

Cannot emphasize this enough.

Make sure that you have protection installed (virus scan, e-mail check, ad and spyware prevention).

In particular, beware of spam from 'church'. This managed to crash my e-mail filtering! Had to reset system. This tried to auto reply. Not permitted.

Am posting this, as the last thing you should ever do is e-mail all your friends to say "Look! There is an e-mail virus loose!".
Think about it. It's about as dumb as you can get.

Have scanned system, and now safe to talk to rest of world.

Dave

CatrionaL
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Post by CatrionaL » Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:09 pm

Good advice