Weird spam

[peranders]

My old ISP has a pretty effective spam filter but this slips through. What is the purpose really? Is it from a virus, do they want to sell anything or just bug me?

The message goes like this:

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The are different stories but the content is equally ununderstandable.

[pinkmouse]

May be just junk text to get you to open the mail, and when you do it installs a nasty. Give your system a good scan.

[Geek]

Yup!

The image has the actual spam, because spam reporting houses don't have OCR filters (yet).

Others, some containing just blank messages look for "bouncing" addresses. Those that bounce are removed from the "spam disks" which are distributed in countless ways (bold %$#& will advertize them in the newspaper classifieds here, "Make money sending bulk email! Call for disk!" )

Go to www.spamcop.net and open a free reporting account. We could use all the help we can get to slow the flood of junk

[peranders]

Originally posted by pinkmouse
May be just junk text to get you to open the mail, and when you do it installs a nasty. Give your system a good scan.

I'm, not too worried, using a Mac

[peranders]

Originally posted by Geek
The image has the actual spam,...

Which you hardly can read, nor understand. Very effective

[KBK]

I use hotmail, so it only allows through the folks I want it to. At work, it's the custom made linux based system that was a fortune to put together and the engineer of such is onsite all day.

I have a very big thick and expensive email condom. I can't feel anything.

[peranders]

My present web hotel uses http://www.theplanet.com/ and they have a nice feature called "BoxTrapper Spam Trap" which has an ignore list, a black list and a white list. Everybody has to verify their existantance by replying to an special email. So far I have got a single spam!

[lineup]

Originally posted by pinkmouse

May be just junk text to get you to open the mail, and when you do it installs a nasty.

Give your system a good scan.

As usual, a good advice from pinkmouse.
I ran Search & Destroy through all my harddrive last week.
It is interesting and also disgusting to see all intruders, that has to be deleted.

And guess what:
Microsoft has got some nasty little program
that bypasses my firewall and browser safety choices.
for Microsoft Windows sites exclusively.
They think they can do as they like,
just because I bought WindowsXP OS from them.

But Search & Destroy is set to classify such Microsoft intruders, too.

SpyBot Search & Destroy is and has always been a FREEWARE
Download and Run http://www.spybot.info/

Don't you agree, pinkmouse.


Regards
lineup

[peranders]

Isn't it wonderful with a secury OS like Mac OS X

[Geek]

....or *nix

Yes, yes it is