Best answer to spam is strong passwords on your mail accounts. Reporting all spam you receive to the feds, and filter your mail with a good client like Thunderbird, where you can set up the rules it filters by, and not using IE to read your mail in the browser because IE has way to many holes in it to be safe.
The tool most spammers use is someone elses e-mail account. Fighting this is as easy as strong passwords on your accounts. Phishing for your password is reduced using an OS like Mac OSX or Linux That Keystroke recorders are only installed if you intensionally install one, rather than giving a virus the chance to install one for you. The canspam act is why you want to report spam to the fed.
All other methods only keep people busy thinking they are stopping the problem.
Kevin Pemberton
On 10/22/2011 07:57 AM, Kirk McLoren wrote:
not in sent file which is automatically generated plus my IT person has other Yahoo customers it happened tothe real proof to you though should be Yahoo's IT which is working on it an admits they got broken into.Phishing is not new but they are getting more sophisticated.
Public trust in the mainstream media is at an all-time low, says a new Gallup poll. It's not surprising, of course, since most people have now come to realize the mainstream media is nothing more than a corporate mouthpiece that pretends to be engaged in reporting the news:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/149624/Majority-Continue-Distrust-Media-Perceive-Bias.aspx
From: John Paramore <watertoyz@frontier.com>
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] Re: Spam - and something to do about it
It's nice that Yahoo's told you that, but that guarantee it to be it
so. This thing has been around for a while now, and in advance of
anybody's "cloud". You see these spams on this group and others like
it because it's a mail list that's programmed to forward one member's
input to all members.
The bulk of such spams I receive are sent from private addresses TO
private addresses, sometimes including mail list addresses, and some
of those are from google groups and from other mail lists I've never
heard of before that seem to follow the interests of the
"sender"...Doesn't seem to be a hack-job so much as a harmless but
annoying bit of malware.
Sooooooo...Looking at your post I see it going to 5 yahoo mail-groups
and 2 private addresses. Perhaps you should compare the addresses in
your post to those in your address book.
John
On Oct 21, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Kirk McLoren wrote:
> not from my machine. yahoo tech support knows all about it and has
> not solved it
> IT people tell me the 'cloud' got hacked?
>
> -Kirk
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