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well I had a startling finding today. Recently I installed Nortons Internet Security. In the program there is a section called privacy. In that section you can add personal information that you DONT want shared across the internet.
Well I was a little nervous entering that info but it proved valuable this morning. In that section I had added my e-mail address, along with outher info. What this does is alert you if anyone is trying to access any personal information on your pc.
Well I downloaded my e-mail this morning, nothing special my usual 30 or 40 junk e-mails. And like every morning I just delete about 98% of them. Well this morning was different, 4 seperate emails tried to access my e-mail address and send it back to a web site or sender. Norton's internet Security caught it and allowed me to block it from happening.
4 more times today it happened, that was just 8 times today some e-mail tried to rob me of my e-mail address. Now you dont even have to open the e-mail, just highlight the e-mail and it is activated.
This also confirms my theory that all chain e-mails do this as well.
So THAT is why you get so much mail, just think how many times a day your personal info is robbed.
makes ya think doesn't it
-------------------- Bob Rochon Creative Signworks Millbury, MA 508-865-7330
"Life is Like an Echo, what you put out, comes back to you." Posts: 5149 | From: Millbury, Mass. U.S. | Registered: Nov 1998
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and worse, there are one pixel scripts hidden in web pages that get all yer info and send it back to a spammer central server..
and HOTMAIL the world famous spam port,,, they just plain lie.
they just got cought exposing over 4 million emails to open public scrutiny. ya want to test it. goto hotmail.. open a new account, and just let it sit for about 5 days.
make use you use something unigue. you will be amazed that you will start gettin over 45 spams a day after about 5 days, then incrasing to over 90 emails after a few weeks. Even after you set all to never give out yer email..
it is said that yahoo is much better at keeping your privacy.
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I am relatively new to the internet, but when I first got on line, the computer guy who was helping me recommended Juno as a server because it was only $9 something a month. What a mistake that was. I got a minimum of 6--8 junk mails a day, pop-ups all the time, plus they were real good at bumping me off the net 3 or 4 times a session.
Then a friend recommended ATT. I don't know about you, but I ain't crazy about big corporations like that...just the name makes me cringe....but I went ahead with the switch. It costs more, $16.95/mo., but guess what? absolutely NO SPAM at all, almost zero pop ups, and I don't get bumped anymore unless I just walk away and forget about it for awhile. Also the connection speed is noticeably faster, a plus with my slow dial-up. The few pop ups I have gotten, seem to have come after I visited some website, and are always gone the next time I go on line. So ATT seems to me to be well worth the price just for that alone.There are lots of other good features too that I won't get into cause I'm not trying to plug them really, just talkin' about getting rid of spam.....but I will mention they give you unlimited access for that price, plus a bunch of e-mails, web space, etc.
-------------------- Jeff Ogden 8727 NE 68 Terr. Gainesville FL, 32609 Posts: 2138 | From: 8827 NE 68 Terr Gainesville Fl 32609 | Registered: Aug 2002
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I have a secondary hotmail account that i use to return their mail to them. I reply 10 to 100 times with a huge file attached to it to clog their accounts. I have this animated gif file that works nicely. If everyone did this it would really create problems for them.
-------------------- Shane Mussche Sin Custom Graphics Hamilton Ontario Posts: 52 | From: Hamilton, Ontario | Registered: Jun 2002
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Sounds like I need to pick that up. My isp has a new spam blocker that picks out most of the garbage, but I still get 2 or 3 a day. My spam block gets somewhere around 85 to 90 a day...
-------------------- Mark Kottwitz Kottwitz Graphics Ridgely, MD www.SeeMySignWork.com -------------------------- Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein Posts: 749 | From: Ridgely, MD | Registered: Oct 2000
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