I got B*ngB*s spam!

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arses.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dont you mean a*ses??

― katie, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

katie is nice

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Getting B*ngb*s spam? Well, that's teach you to go rummaging around on the site.

I installed some spyware remover program thingy yesterday, and it identified six different spies on my computer (which is a new one, only a month old) which had installed themselves as a result of me innocently browsing around the web. Not that I have visited B*ngb*s of course. Or anything like it. But it's scary to think wherever you go you are being tracked, and targetted for spam. Grrr!

― C J, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I got about my 10th virus e-mail this week :( "happy assumption"...hmmpphhh...But CJ, we aren't surfing those sites, they are getting our e-mail addy's from here. I assume.

― jel --, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been getting some really unsavoury spam lately, for the kind of websites you go to prison for looking at. I am now regretting having ever posted on the b*ngb*s thread.

― DV, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't recall posting on it, and have certainly not been to the bluddy site. actually the spam was really unpleasant talking about a "rape bus". way to improve my mood on another ruin-ed life morning.

Yogi Bear - My Life is a Bruin
Accountant - My Life is accruin'
Steve Redgrave - My Life is a-rowing
Blacksmith - My Life is a-shoeing (horses)
...

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I installed some spyware remover program thingy yesterday, and it identified six different spies on my computer

Arf.

― Graham, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It is possible (it is *highly* possible) that spammers got your email address from usenet; they could also get it if you have it on your webpages, or if you've posted to any web forum.

But all it takes to get virus-mail is for your email address to be in the address book of someone who once got a virus. It can be several times removed. I don't recognize the "from" addresses on most of the "Happy Assumption" and "Worm Klez.E immunity" mail I get -- they are probably in the address book of someone who is in the address book of someone who is in the address book of someone who once sent me an email.

Although my Mac is immune to most worms and viruses (which tend to target Microsoft), it is the "spoof" mail that I find annoying. I got a lot of mail telling me that I'd sent the Klez.E worm to people I'd never heard of and never had in my address book, and my Mac scans clean for viruses and couldn't catch Klez.E if I injected it by hypodermic needle... then I found out that the latest viruses will send themselves out using the email address of someone in the address book, even if their machine isn't infected.

So if you get a "Happy Assumption" email, it may not be from the person who appears to be sending it; and if someone yells at you for sending virus email and your virus software is up to date and you test clean ... relax. It really wasn't you.

― Anitra Freeman, Saturday, 17 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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