Porn virus targets spam stoppers (Don't look at the pictures, sonny!)

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[Happy2BMe]

The wonders of modern pornography.

[templar]

I got 13 of these today. My e-mail automatically filters all photos out, so I just forwarded them (the text portion) to the abuse section of my ISP. The usual end result of my action is that my ISP bans all incomings from the offending origin if they don't take action themselves. Sometimes, when I get bombarded by multiple spams from a 'legitimate' source, I just look up the support contacts for the offending site and forward all of their spam back to them X 10. It usually results in an end to the spam.

[Sabertooth]

The wonders of modern pornography.

The wonders of MS Outlook. Why does anyone use it?

[alwayzright]

"Sometimes, when I get bombarded by multiple spams from a 'legitimate' source, I just look up the support contacts for the offending site and forward all of their spam back to them X 10. It usually results in an end to the spam."

That's pretty dangerous. It's impossible to tell if the address is the actual source address (it probably isn't), and there is no such thing as a 'legitimate' source. There's not a spammer alive that doesn't go through multiple relays. The law is fuzzy, but you could get in trouble doing this. I definitely would not risk it.

[Keith in Iowa]

>> It's impossible to tell if the address is the actual source address (it probably isn't) <<

That's not quite true - if you know how to read the heqaders, you can find out a lot about where an e-mail came from.

[templar]

I definitely would not risk it.

Probably the wiser course of action. I don't mind an occasional spam offering something legitimate that I am actually interested in (I bought my last life insurance policy from a 'spam' and saved a substantial amount over what I had been paying). I do get kinda frustrated when I get 15 spams a day from the same cmpany though, even if they are offering a legitimate product.

[Graybeard58]

That's pretty dangerous. It's impossible to tell if the address is the actual source address (it probably isn't), and there is no such thing as a 'legitimate' source. There's not a spammer alive that doesn't go through multiple relays. The law is fuzzy, but you could get in trouble doing this. I definitely would not risk it.

From personal experience I can say you are 100% right. I was getting spam from a modeling agency (How they knew I was that good looking, I don't know.) Anyway I wrote to them asking to be removed from their mailing list. After that they increased the volume. So I started sending multiple forwards to them of their own spam. (Hundreds)

I get a call from my provider threatening to cut off my DSL service. They said they got a complaint from the modeling agency that I was trying to deny them service.

I told them where to stuff their service and to discontinue it immediately. Then the guy started back tracking trying to get me to KEEP the service. It was Gallatin River Communications in Pekin, Illinois. They also provided my land line phone service and I told them to stuff that too.

We are a wireless family now with cable internet and my next step is to tell them to come and get those unsightly wires off my property.

[Old Professer]

They probably have an easement in perpetuity.

[Graybeard58]

They probably have an easement in perpetuity.

I know the utility company does for the pole that sits on my property and I don't have a problem with that. The phone company wires that lead directly to the back of my house will be removed.

Now that you have warned me of the possibility that they have an easement also, I will remove them myself. If anything is said I will claim it must have been some democrat vandal who did it.

[lilylangtree]

I've been getting this porn garbage for a number of weeks now. Wondered where they came from. I filter everything through mailwasher but a number of these garbage emails can't be bounced because they don't have a valid email address.

[Happy2BMe]

I use MailWasher Pro also. It's the best mail screener I've found - the viruses and porn doesn't even get a chance to hit your hard drive.

Stuff coming in without a return address is usually either porn or a virus. I don't allow any email through unless I recognize the sender - period!

[Jeff Gordon]

Could someone sterilize the pictures at issue and post them here so we would know what not to look at?

[Happy2BMe]

"Could someone sterilize the pictures at issue and post them here so we would know what not to look at?"

Not a problem . . .

[Happy2BMe]

"The wonders of MS Outlook. Why does anyone use it? "

Because it comes with your computer and is supplied by Miker$off?

[ErnBatavia]

(I bought my last life insurance policy from a 'spam' and saved a substantial amount over what I had been paying).

That's downright scary....you'll have to wait until you're dead to discover that you got hosed....but I guess only your heirs will have to wring their hands about "Templar" who bought a misty cloud over the internet.

[scott7278]

LOL!

[Happy2BMe]

"That's downright scary....you'll have to wait until you're dead to discover that you got hosed...."

OMG! The Ultimate Spam Scam - pay for even after you die!

[templar]

That's downright scary....you'll have to wait until you're dead to discover that you got hosed....

Nah, I checked the company out pretty well first. The offer came from an independant agent who gave me a choice of several companies and policies, I just took the one I thought was both best priced and most secure. It's term insurance anyway (till my daughter is grown), and I really don't plan to collect on it.

[MeekOneGOP]

ha! ha! Mornin' ! ...

[Yeti]

The wonders of MS Outlook. Why does anyone use it?

No kidding!!!

I like Eudora, personally.