I haven't received that Spam but typically others .. The septic tank one always makes me laugh. I would guess this is just more Spam. Your email address has been harvested and sold on a Spam mailer CD. The harvest programs find them, the addresses, on mail list archives and junk websites which ask for a working address to allow you to download a free utility .. They sell the address or make the mailer cd's and sell them as in : 5 million email addresses .. Guaranteed no bounce .. Interested in making you a millionaire ! Standard business 101 idiots. A couple of options .. If the address used is a old one being forwarded to your current address .. You may be able to ask for the forward to be stopped or your isp may have a user controlled filter to let you block addresses and domains for your account. Otherwise .. You need to play with Spam blockers which work with your current email application or just use the delete key. The Bayesian based blocking tools work decently but need to be trained .. Diddled with. Some say .. Spam is killing email as a useful application .. I am running the average, around 40% of my incoming is Spam after years of mail list participation. Don Voss Jungle - Replaced by Rainforest. A Rainforest is a happy place where Disney characters dance and sing ... a jungle is a scary place with lions, tigers, malaria and natives that want to cut off your head and boil it for dinner... who in their right mind would want to save that!?! -----Original Message----- From: Dave [mailto:bzerobat_private] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:09 PM To: incidentsat_private Subject: Strange 4 MB Emails For the last few hours, I've been getting one of these rather often. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Joaquim" To: (lots of people, including unfortunately me) Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 12:53 AM Subject: Katie Cooper Benefit Katie Cooper.tif [01/58] What is especially nasty about this is that there is a 3.66Mb file called 58] attached to each and every one of these messages. Apparently, there's 58 of them. As you might imagine, a 10Mb mailbox gets filled pretty quickly 3.66Mb at a time, so I'm getting lots of messages from my ISP about that. If you've sent a message to me the last few hours, and it has bounced, this is why, sorry. Anti-spam programs? I've tried two so far (Coffee Cup Spam Blocker, and Spam Catcher POP Anti-Spam), and it just laughs at them. When you think about it, though, anti-spam programs can't really do any good here. These messages go into the mail server, and if three of them show up, the account is clogged until I retrieve them. The action needs to be done on the sending or the ISP server end. I've done the abuseat_private already. Wrote to Erol's already. Are any of you getting the same thing? Is there a new virus or trojan ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attend the Black Hat Briefings & Training, July 28 - 31 in Las Vegas, the world's premier technical IT security event! 10 tracks, 15 training sessions, 1,800 delegates from 30 nations including all of the top experts, from CSO's to "underground" security specialists. See for yourself what the buzz is about! Early-bird registration ends July 3. This event will sell out. www.blackhat.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attend the Black Hat Briefings & Training, July 28 - 31 in Las Vegas, the world's premier technical IT security event! 10 tracks, 15 training sessions, 1,800 delegates from 30 nations including all of the top experts, from CSO's to "underground" security specialists. See for yourself what the buzz is about! Early-bird registration ends July 3. This event will sell out. www.blackhat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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