"Call it spam rage: A Silicon Valley computer programmer has been arrested for threatening to torture and kill employees of the company he blames for bombarding his computer with Web ads promising to enlarge his penis."
This is getting out of hand. Has anyone had so much spam that it's caused thier computer to be rendered inoperable?
I saw on the news about a "Do Not Spam List" similar to the Do Not Call list.
The problem is that some spammers route thier spam through other countries, or originate from outside the US itself. making it very difficult to enforce it.
I don't think I need to see some ad about some cream or pill that claims to make penises bigger. And I'm sure most parents don't want thier kids to see that also.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Before I changed my Demon account name, I was receiving about 40 spam messages a day, and that's after 6 years of use in which I didn't always kep my email private. Now I receive none, and only give my private email to trusted people. In addition, I have one private email on my phasers account, another one I use for business matters, and a third that's the actual contact email advertised on my website - to date I've little if any spam come through to that one, and none at all to the others.
My Yahoo account is another matter. It's inundated. I haven't checked it for a week so no doubt my 6 Meg will be taken up by Microsoft Security Patches.
I wonder how Liam is doing with his Liamnet Demon account. . .
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
That "Spam Rage" is a pretty lame ass excuse for wanting to kill your co-workers. Cant he just want to kill them for fun like everybody else?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Umm... the guy wasn't threatening to kill his coworkers. He was threatening to kill the employees of another company that he believed to be the source of all the spam he was getting.
I've been getting ridiculous amounts of spam in the past month or so. It's all coming into both my university and website accounts. I'm averaging about 20 to 30 spam messages a day now.
Posted by Austin Powers (Member # 250) on :
Like Lee I keep different mail accounts. The private one for trusted people, a business account and several crap accounts just for registering with forums and other community sites. Especially one of these accounts is swamped with spam, but as all incoming mails are deleted after 30 days there is no problem. All the other accounts, including the one I used to sign up here, are largely or even completely "spam-free".
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
I have three email accounts, a Hotmail, a Yahoo, and my university account. The Hotmail one is the only one to get spam. Yahoo and the university get nothing. Suprisingly, I've used all three for registering for things and filling out forms, yet the Hotmail one is still the only one to get the spam. I wouldn't mind getting rid of it but I get a lot of my "normal" email there that'd be hard to change over.
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
About 2 spam mails survive my ISP filter and my Thunderbird junk filter. But those filters do catch about 50-60 emails a day.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
I have my email account from Pleh, a GMX account (with changeable names), and my uni account. I don't get any spam through Pleh, nor through uni (probably because of the nature of the name - an alphanumeric string). I was getting lots and lots of spam through one GMX account, probably because it is used as my MSN Messenger email. I've since deleted that email and made a new GMX name, but I still use that email for Messenger. My girlfriend uses a Hotmail account and her uni account, and averages about 5-10 spam messages a day in the Hotmail account, even with their "filters" activated. There seems to be a correlation here between spam and Messenger, which is to be expected...
EDIT: No sooner than I posted this did I check my Pleh mail and found spam...
[ November 27, 2003, 08:46 AM: Message edited by: Topher ]
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
I get about 200 messages a day. Maybe 7 of those are ones I want. The new Eudora (6.01) has a really nice "Junk" smart filter. It's pretty smart. Usually cuts it down to about 15 messages a day. Has anyone here used a service to get their name off lists that they would recommend?
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
I have a Hotmail account, I only get the Bioware news letter,but thats cuz I have one of thier games. Our old ISP e-mail gets about 15-20 spams every so often. Most of it for porn. and some for whatever the hell my family signed up to.
I've never heard of a sevice to have your name removed from lists. But if there is one, I'd really like to know about it too.
What about Spy-ware? My friend gets about 20 pop-up ads from spyware. I had a couple, but I found a Program called Ad-Aware, that seems to help keep my computer relativley clean.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
AdAware's good, and I scan my hard drive with it once a week when I do my weekly computer maintenance. The only time it failed me was for a nasty piece of spyware called "Free E-Cards" got installed. Hid the executable for the file in the Windows/System32 folder and another file somewhere else in the Windows folder that recreated the executable on system startup if it were deleted. Took a good couple days for me to nail down the file responsible.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
How'd you delete the file in the System 32 file? I've got a quarranteened horsey in there that just wont go away.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I just right-clicked on the file icon and selected delete. Went straight to the recycle bin.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Shit: mine keep telling me the file is "protected or in use". Even after I disable it in "processes".
Why do fuckers spend so much of their time making shit to fuck with people they dont even know?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I take your anti-virus program won't strike the final blow for you?
I've never dealt much with viruses, trojan horses, or flaming Vikings before, so my advice is limited and, likely, going to include the statement, "All you can do is just reformat your hard drive." Basically, I'm qualified to work for Dell and Gateway's technical support divisions.
Here's a couple things that come to mind immediately. Would it be possible to delete the file in question by loading windows into safe mode? If the file is loaded as a start-up process, going into safe mode ought to bypass its loading. The other thing I'm wondering is if it would be possible for you to go into the registry and removing all the references to the file in question? I don't know how comfortable you'd feel about doing that; the registry scares the shit out of me.
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :