Subject: Re: [stella] Re: [stella OT] Spam From: Rob <kudla@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 23:21:35 -0400 |
On Friday 06 August 2004 21:00, Ruffin Bailey wrote: > Though I suppose there are viruses that comb your entire hd > for email addresses, correct? There are those, but more efficient are the viruses that just grab your entire Outlook address book, or scrape all the senders and recipients out of the mails in all your folders, or go through the IE cache directories (which would explain how someone got Erik's obsolete addresses.) On top of that, there are spam spiders constantly going around the web collecting any email address they can find out of mailto: links and even anything in the a@xxx form. It's really not necessary for the sender and the recipient to have appeared in the same place since even the viruses (at least initially, till their servers are shut down) usually send their harvested email addresses back to their creators. The solution, if you can call it that, is to give out a different disposable address to everyone you can get away with. I've been doing that for a few years now and as soon as I start getting spam to one of them, it gets forwarded into a black hole. Sadly, I do still have a few permanent "private" addresses which, thanks to these Outlook-crawling viruses, have been getting more and more spam lately. One of those is the address with which I've subscribed to this list, since I wasn't making up a new address for everything yet at the time. Rob
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