Re: 4 hours

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:41:18 -0700

Greetings --

    It's been well known for years now that posting/publishing a real
email address to _any_ newsgroup or web site is an open initiation to
be spammed. For years now, spammers have been using automated tools
to harvest email addresses from Usenet. What I don't understand is
why you're just now noticing the phenomenon.

       You're receiving these emails because your email address is in
the address book of someone infected with a worm, and/or because _you_
posted your real email address somewhere on-line, either in a forum
accessible to the public and spambots, such as Usenet, or on an
untrustworthy web site that subsequently sold your address as part of
a mailing list.

Bruce Chambers 

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"Li" <liathome@neobright.net> wrote in message
news:erFKObwnDHA.3688@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> after posting here,
> ********
> Bright.net's virus protection service has detected a potential
> email virus. This suspicious message has been quarantined in
> your Bright.net Message Center:
>
>     From: "Microsoft Net Message Storage Service"
<smtpform@freemail.com>
>     Subject: Report
>     Virus: Exploit-MIME.gen.b
>
> You can read the message without infecting your computer.
> Click on the link to access your Bright.net Message Center:
> *********
> after not seeing any for more than 3 weeks! <BG> oh well. glad my
isp is pro-active
> because i need my email to be available to people who don't know how
to unmunge.
> li
>
>
>
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