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Article #109Re: Stupid Microsoft Patch Virus
From: brian w edginton
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:33
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:33
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On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:59:13 +0100, "Ant" <not@home.today> wrote: >"Bill" <wsb312@hotmail.com> wrote in message >news:hrtpmv8vvn154ngo3tckkjacigmuovdene@4ax.com... >> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:34:15 -0500, Ted Davis >> <tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu> wrote: >>> >>>All that means is that you are not very popular: > >I'm very careful about who I allow to have my email address. > >> No, it means that either he has munged his email address in usenet or > >Correct. > >> has some other filtering system in place. In this case, I believe it's >> the latter. > >No filtering by me or my ISP. > They don't need to know your address....their bots shotgun the 'net with computer generated addresses. Millions per day. they only need a few hits on existing addresses to make it worth their while. They, already, have lists of genuine domains. Best defence is a user name so silly, even a computer wouldn't dream it up. :) brianWE Money? Spend it before it is all gone!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fcd68,5a81923afba950bd X-Google-Attributes: gidfcd68,public X-Google-Thread: fd5d6,5a81923afba950bd X-Google-Attributes: gidfd5d6,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-21 15:34:08 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!colt.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!snewsf0.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: brian w edginton <edgo1@REMOVETHISbigpond.com> Newsgroups: alt.comp.virus,aus.radio.scanner Subject: Re: Stupid Microsoft Patch Virus Message-ID: <jj9smvo3f5aubp4harfcgctmseb74erv79@4ax.com> References: <bkhahg$1bsh$1@otis.netspace.net.au> <csvomvgdeaat6k9tk4csr4ci9bbvklenj7@4ax.com> <bki446$8qm$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk> <kcspmvgo0ep02hngkhjhb682gijqeu8419@4ax.com> <hrtpmv8vvn154ngo3tckkjacigmuovdene@4ax.com> <bkk0c1$hmp$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 30 Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:33:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.139.29.216 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1064183624 144.139.29.216 (Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:33:44 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:33:44 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services