Stupid Spam

[Doug Edwards]

My website email was compromised today. I have since changed my password. Sorry for any inconvenience anyone has suffered.

I received similar spam all day, then my account started emailing out. What a time we live in.

[Eric Hanson]

Sorry to hear of that Doug. I have had it happen a couple of times. Agrivating indeed.

[Fred Young]

Boy that's the pits.... I put my on email addy in my contacts list, or add to my mailing list. so when my puter starts sending out on it's own I will get one from myself.... lets me be aware.

[Ivan Kelsall]

Doug,using the I/net these days can be a very 'iffy' experience. Last year,over 45,000 e-mail addresses were hi-jacked from UK's Facebook site.Mine must have been one of them. I received an e-mail from 'a person' that looked ok,but who's name i didn't recognise.I opened it up & it downloaded a malicious virus that kept giving me false AVG virus alerts every few minutes. I managed to rid myself of it with some help from the AVG Anti-virus folks themselves .
Re. SPAM,i use the free version of 'SPAMfighter' which allows you to block &/or blacklist unwanted e-mails,
Ivan

[MikeEdgerton]

Facebook has more than it's share of malware problems. Generally you don't get hit unless you click on the link in those e-mail messages. The problem is that people will click on anything. I get e-mail all the time with that the display name is someone I know but the e-mail address doesn't match them. Don't click on anything you aren't expecting.

[OldSausage]

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