Thanks, Paul for the valuble information.
C. V. Gangadharan.
--- Paul Bowers <pbowers@pipingdesign.com> wrote:
> OK, short story.
>
> Spammers will stop at nothing in their efforts to
> try to get you to open
> their messages. Why?
>
> 1) They want you to read their useless advertising
> 2) They want to "own" (computer jargon for "being
> able to use *your*
> computer for their purposes) your machine by putting
> a virus on it. Once
> they "own" your computer, they can send SPAM to you
> (that you won't
> necessarily see) which gets relayed to their victims
> by using your
> computer and username/email address/address book
>
> If you have HTML or Rich Text enabled in your email
> software, they can
> embed images inside their crap so that they can tell
> that you have
> actually opened the message and then they know that
> they have a valid
> email address to SPAM or try to exploit later via
> illicit virus
> installation.
>
> They will try to trick you into opening their crap
> emails with various
> technical-sounding error message subject lines.
>
> This is why I always recommend disabling HTML email.
>
> SPAM is like 10 million ants attacking an elephant
> or the boiling frog
> experiment (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog ).
>
> I'm CCing this to the group, maybe it will help.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Zope_Tushar@fwuk.fwc.com>
> To: "Paul Bowers" <pbowers@pipingdesign.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Spam
>
> > Thanks Paul.
> >
> > I forwarded the message for your info., thinking
> that only I might
> have
> > recd it.
> >
> > I am using the office email id and located in
> Thailand. Our IT group
> is
> > trying to tackle the problem of emails recd from
> unknown addresses but
> they
> > are not yet successful. It's never ending story.
> Some users did
> receive the
> > email saying that their email was virus affected
> etc etc. The reply
> was
> > from the address where they never sent any email.
> >
> > Hopefully, this problem doesn't worsen and don't
> become a threat to
> the
> > corporates and individual. But at the same time
> it's good opportunity
> for
> > the anti-spam software makers to get handsome
> profit.
> >
> > If you know any such softwares, please post to the
> group list.
> >
> > Best Regards.
> >
> > Tushar Zope
> > Extn: 162
> > "Paul Bowers"
> > <pbowers@pipingde To:
> Zope
> Tushar/D153/DEPTS/TH/FWUK/GB@FWUK
> > sign.com> cc:
> >
> Subject: Re: Spam
> > 04/01/2004 08:49
> > AM
> >
> > Tushar, to me, that is SPAM. It is addressed to
> > PipingDesign-owner@yahoogroups.com but you got it?
> Last I heard, I was
> > the owner of the PipingDesign group at
> YahooGroups.
> >
> > Are you located in North America? If so, give me a
> call Thursday.
> > [_____] x25. I only ask this because if I was to
> explain all the
> > possible reasons why you might have received junk
> like this in your
> > email inbox I might have to write a book. It's
> much easier to explain
> > and address any questions verbally - otherwise we
> will end up going
> > around in email circles.
> >
> > I am personally fed up with SPAM, having to deal
> with over a hundred
> of
> > these crap messages per day. I assure you that I
> don't SPAM or give
> any
> > addresses out to any other third party.
> >
> > If you still have the message in question, forward
> it to me and I'll
> try
> > to discern the actual source (there are ways to
> look ito this and
> report
> > it). It probably won't do any good though, email
> has become a losing
> > battle over the past couple of years.
> >
> > Try using Mailwasher, a free program that allows
> you to review and
> > delete messages on your server before it hits your
> inbox. I've been
> > using it for a few months and it works pretty well
> although it can be
> > easy for it to find a few false positives.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Zope_Tushar@fwuk.fwc.com>
> > To: <pbowers@pipingdesign.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:18 PM
> > Subject: Re: Spam
> >
> > > Paul,
> > >
> > > What's this email rced on the list? Is this a
> spam??
> > >
> > > Best Regards.
> > >
> > > Tushar Zope
> > > Extn: 162
>
>
>
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