Re: Re: Possible virus/worm sender?

From: jdurling@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 22:51:32 EDT


A guy has this website that scans for parisites that programs such as
ad-aware cannot get rid of. Includes instructions on how to uninstall the
parisites. Website is www.doxdesk.com

Jeff Durling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Pitz" <dakota@billpitz.com>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: DML: Re: Possible virus/worm sender?

>
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:10:41 -0400, jbattles@bankfinancial.com ("Josh
> Battles") wrote:
>
> >
> >I got something from that person a while ago. Being stupid I opened it
and
> >it was something about email verification to verify that you're not a
> >spammer or something. Without thinking I clicked on the link and
> >immediately kicked myself in the head. The spam hasn't stopped since. I
> >had to have the mail admin turn on some sort of spam filter for my
mailbox
> >so that they'd stop.
>
>
> Yep, I got one from the signbiz guy too. It's actually not from him,
> it's from "SpamArrest" (see: www.spamarrest.com), a company that
> supposedly provides spam protected e-mail by doing sender verification
> for you. I've always suspected that they harvest e-mail addresses for
> the purposes of sending out spam or at least selling the list to other
> people who send out spam. Now I know for sure.
>
> Sadly, I've got about two dozen users who have signed up for it and
> are using it. To make matters worse, it pops their e-mail every 2
> minutes around the clock. *sigh*
>
> -Bill



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