Trojan Warning

[Dera]

It is a big bad rotten world. Please check out the following from Snopes.

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp

Wonder what the bad guys did before computers? http://img17.exs.cx/img17/4829/m2hmad2.gif

[Project]

love it... if you don't have spam assassin, you are not assassinating enough spam

[VOguy]

I've got Spam Assassin on my personal e-mail server, (set to a score of 1.00), and I also add in my own words such as Replica, Watches, Pill, etc into the scan of the subject line, which are immediately discarded. Still, I get the spam.

According to my stats, I get 37.2 spams for every legit mail.

I'm wondering if I should not do what a friend of mine does and change his address yearly. His syntax is {name}year@{domain}.

[lastconundrum]

Does your ISP allow you to set up aliases? First thing I did was set up 2, one for ecommerce, one for mailing lists. My base email address is only for friends. If a business or list gives my email to a spammer and I start getting too much junk I just delete the alias and set up a new one. I usually use (number)(name)@(ISP).

[Project]

precious hint: gmail allows you to make arbitrary addresses... if you have joe@gmail.com and you want to sign up for flickr, add +flickr to the email... so joe+flickr@gmail.com. Then if you get spammed you will know where it came from, and you can block that entire +word* extension to the gmail address.

You have unlimited aliases when you do this, the only downside is some email entries validate the plus sign and do not allow it, but there are not many, and they should allow it anyways.