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I have no confidence, what about you, but I've found this is wha

Yahoo Message Number: 63385
Nate,

Thank you for catching this. This is a third occurance in the last three days for this member. He has been a member since 2002.
Probably an infected computer, or a compromised AOL password. I have written him, and place his email to the forum on moderation so that I can screened out suspect messages.

Herb

Forum Moderator

Re: I have no confidence, what about you, but I've found this is wha

Reply #1 –
Yahoo Message Number: 63410
Herb, I have received four direct emails from this "jconn" person in the last few days. Until now I didn't know where he got my email address but now I see it was from this forum. I have opened nothing from him/her, but if I'm getting these email, others are probably as well.

Stuart Thornton, 05 Allure, 31217

Re: I have no confidence, what about you, but I've found this is wha

Reply #2 –
Yahoo Message Number: 63413

These messages with a short link(and several other subjects) are coming to my system from more than one source, not just this list and multiple ISP's. The hackers are apparently giving us a spike in activity to tickle their little black hearts. As long as you don't, ever, click on the link just delete the message - immediately.
II know of no way to stop this as it appears once they have your address - well they have it and can keep sending their little software bombs.. There is nothing on your computer (unless you followed one of the links) and there isn't anything to remove from Yahoo. Or so it seems. They harvested a bunch of e-mail addresses from who knows where and are using them to cause trouble.
If someone has a solution I'd love to hear it and take advantge. Until then the delete button and not falling for the temptation of a strange URL should be sufficient to avoid problems other than the aggravation.
Don't open or connect to anything you don't know is safe for a fact.

Bob (rthandren@...)

Spam

Reply #3 –
Yahoo Message Number: 63421
I once had a teenager stay with me for a week or so, and the spam storm after that was enormous.
I considered changing my email address, but found a program called Mailwasher. This was several years ago, but should still be in business, as it is a great program and works well. It sits between your provider and your email program, and you teach it what is spam and what is not. I think it intercepts the spam and replies with a "bad email address" response, so the automated spam program removes your email address. However it works, I have been spam free for years, probably because NO ONE ever gets to use my computer but me, and I have all the proper aftermarket programs in place. Microsoft has firewalls now and eased our burden there too.
Good luck with that. There is a special place in Hell for those people.

Jack Nichols, 2003 Intrigue 11527
 

Re: Spam

Reply #4 –
Yahoo Message Number: 63422
In my experience, going from Explorer and Yahoo to Foxfire and gmail cut spam by over 90%.

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Lee Zaborowski
07 Intrigue 12153