Re: A new level of spam?

["Suzette Leeming" <suzette -dot- leeming -at- gmail -dot- com>]

These are malware, which is spreading at an alarming rate - 8 to 11 million
per hour. DO NOT CLICK ANYTHING in this emails or you will be infected. The
best thing to do, as Bonnie did, is to create a rule to send them immedately
to junk mail.

They have already changed once, and uses a variety of filenames. It used to
be CNN: Daily Alert Top 10 and is now CNN: My Custom Alerts, or something
like that.

I fail to understand why someone would create something like this, other
than a sick, perverted desire to spread chaos and destruction. Are they
proud of their accomplishments when they see it reported in the news? I
always think it must be a kid because surely adults are too mature for this
type of prank. There's no money in it, unless they made a huge bet with
someone that it could be done.

Whatever; these days one must be ever vigilent (and have good AV software).

Suzette Leeming
Stouffville, ON




On 8/20/08, Bonnie Granat <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Yes, I am getting those same spam e-mails. Something is allowing it to
> escape the normal junk filters, so I have been creating my own rules.
>
>
> Bonnie Granat
> http://www.GranatEdit.com
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> > Hey gang,
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> > Lately, my Mozilla Thunderbird mail client has been letting a
> > lot of cr*p
> > through its Bayesian filters, not marking it as spam.  Lots
> > of "Brittany
> > Spears nude...." and "CNN alerts" and "MSNBC alerts" and
> > "Acai cleanse"
> > trash.
>
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