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| Maintaining the trend of LUGNET-culled spamlists, some enterprising soul has kindly sent me the latest 238K "security update from the Microsoft." Much as I appreciate the sender's concern for my security, I deleted the email, as I have done with (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) sorry to say, but those emails already harvested will never stop getting spam now. Your only option is to abandon that address, and start a new (Safe) one. Or, just install really good spam filters, like spamassassin. :) Dan (22 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Popfile (available at Sourceforge) is also very good once trained -Orion (22 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) What is a safe address? My "safest" address is one that actually contains the word NOSPAM. :) So far, the harvesters have filtered out that one... Today is the last day of my 30 days evaluation period of McAffe's SpamKiller. I must say I'm not (...) (22 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Alright, when I'm disappointed at SpamAssassin, I'll give that one a try before attempting to write my own... :) /Tore (22 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Popfile isn't a spam filter per se, but a dynamic, learning Email categorizer. In other words, you make up several Email categories (for example mine are Lego, Personal, Spam) and it sorts your mail into the respective categories. If it get a (...) (22 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I've had this about 10 times. My mail server intercepts it every time. It's getting to the point that I'm tempted to see what it'd do. Does anyone know? Scott A (22 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I've just started forwarding all my spam to Bruce Schlickbernd. Problem solved. (...) It doesn't seem to happen often enough to be a major problem for me yet, and I'm gratified that the Microsoft is so concerned about my security. Dave! (22 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I already fell for that temptaion. According to Norman Anti-Virus, it is some kind of worm/trojan. I don't remember its name, but it's probaby Gibe.B. The reason McAfee's SpamKiller let it pass through is that it doesn't filter mails with (...) (22 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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