Re: (TV) Spam check

[Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com>]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 08:07:50 -0800 (PST)
robin dunn <rdunnrn@yahoo.com> wrote:
> haven't noticed that but oddly am having some sort of
> spam explosion over the past few days...hundreds of
> spam emails, much more than usual.

There's a huge problem with people's PCs becoming infected with viruses
that turn them into "spambots".  In the last 2 months or so it's gotten
really bad, especially since the spammers now generate messages based on
snippets of books and other texts for the content, and attach a JPG or GIF
which is the real ad, so that many filters take it to be real mail.

I don't know what's going to happen, but at the current rate, a great many
smaller hosts are going to get completely swamped by it and have to give up.

I just upgraded my server over the summer, and it was doing really well
up until about 2 months ago.  Now it frequently handles so much spam that
it has to stop accepting email for a bit until it processes what's in its
queue.

I'm jsut glad the email I saw really didn't go to the list, but that means
it probably was smart enough to spoof as a list I'm subscribed to, very
possibly because I'm in a folder in someone's Outlook along with the TV 
address.

Keep those virus definitions up to date, folks!!!!  For the Windows users
out there, I highly recommend the free version of AVG, available here:
   http://www.grisoft.com/doc/downloads-products/lng/us/tpl/tpl01

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