All,

I have been contacted by one of the regular contributors to the ng who
has had an email that supposedly has come from one of my addresses (the
one I use, albeit 'altered', for FAQ matters), with links to German web
sites.

I have just performed a full scan on my system and confirm that there
are no 'nasties' lurking (at least, not known to the latest update for
McAfee), and the Firewall is intact and active.

If I send 'cold' emails to people (i.e. I initiate the mail to ask for
information etc.), the 'Subject' would be appropriate ... e.g. 'Re your
entry in the FAQ' (or something similar). I don't send attachments or
links within the email, unless you already know that they will arrive -
i.e., I've contacted you beforehand, or you are one of my very small
list of people (only 4 on this ng) I regularly send items, e.g. the
updated FAQ to Les Crossan.

If you get anything that pretends to be from me, and is vaguely in
German, delete it!

Martin.



--
FAQ & Glossary for uk.sci.weather at:-
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/uswfaqfr.htm

"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
...
All,

I have been contacted by one of the regular contributors to the ng who has
had an email that supposedly has come from one of my addresses (the one I
use, albeit 'altered', for FAQ matters), with links to German web sites.

Snip

Martin.



--
FAQ & Glossary for uk.sci.weather at:-
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/uswfaqfr.htm

Martin

It's quite common if you have regularly posted to NGs to have your identity
hijacked by spammers.

Mine appears quite regularly in all sorts of ways and places - I have tried
complaining to my own isp, but they seem incapable or, more likely, impotent
on this subject! (They have produced a "virtual, throwaway adress" by which
you can possibly keep track of where the source of the problem was
initiated.)

It is likely that you will start getting "genuine" bounce/rejection messages
from recipients who only see the source as you. I have been able to train
my isp's spam catcher to catch most of these before they reach me, but worry
that I could eventually be put on other isp's blacklists through no fault of
my own!

Peter
--
Peter & Elizabeth Corser
Linslade, Beds, UK



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I have been getting malicious e-mails from someone in my address book.
McAfee and Zone Alarm deal with them usually if I inadvertently open them.
I hardly get any real spam as Demon Internet remove it all at source, thanks
Demon.
If any gets through, and if I don't know the person and/or the subject title
looks suspicious with an attachment it gets binned without even looking at it.
So anybody e-mailing me, please put in a meaningful subject line or else it
won't get read.
Martin - you are not in my address book as I know your e-mail address off by
heart !

Cheers,

Will.
--

" Stuff the thought police, I don't care anymore, I am free, I am me -
quack quack "
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mailto:
www: http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk

DISCLAIMER - All views and opinions expressed by myself are personal
and do not necessarily represent those of my employer.
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"Peter Corser" wrote in message
...
"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
...
All,

I have been contacted by one of the regular contributors to the ng who has
had an email that supposedly has come from one of my addresses (the one I
use, albeit 'altered', for FAQ matters), with links to German web sites.

Snip

Martin.



--
FAQ & Glossary for uk.sci.weather at:-
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/uswfaqfr.htm

Martin

It's quite common if you have regularly posted to NGs to have your identity
hijacked by spammers.

Mine appears quite regularly in all sorts of ways and places - I have tried
complaining to my own isp, but they seem incapable or, more likely, impotent
on this subject! (They have produced a "virtual, throwaway adress" by which
you can possibly keep track of where the source of the problem was
initiated.)

It is likely that you will start getting "genuine" bounce/rejection messages
from recipients who only see the source as you. I have been able to train
my isp's spam catcher to catch most of these before they reach me, but worry
that I could eventually be put on other isp's blacklists through no fault of
my own!

Peter
--
Peter & Elizabeth Corser
Linslade, Beds, UK



----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet
News==----
http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+
Newsgroups
----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =----

I have been getting malicious e-mails from someone in my address book.
McAfee and Zone Alarm deal with them usually if I inadvertently open them.
I hardly get any real spam as Demon Internet remove it all at source, thanks
Demon.
If any gets through, and if I don't know the person and/or the subject title
looks suspicious with an attachment it gets binned without even looking at it.
So anybody e-mailing me, please put in a meaningful subject line or else it
won't get read.
Martin - you are not in my address book as I know your e-mail address off by
heart !

Cheers,

Will.
--

" Stuff the thought police, I don't care anymore, I am free, I am me -
quack quack "
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A COL BH site in East Dartmoor at Haytor, Devon 310m asl (1017 feet).

mailto:
www: http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk

DISCLAIMER - All views and opinions expressed by myself are personal
and do not necessarily represent those of my employer.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


"Peter Corser" wrote in message
...
"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
...
All,

I have been contacted by one of the regular contributors to the ng who has
had an email that supposedly has come from one of my addresses (the one I
use, albeit 'altered', for FAQ matters), with links to German web sites.

Snip

Martin.



--
FAQ & Glossary for uk.sci.weather at:-
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/uswfaqfr.htm

Martin

It's quite common if you have regularly posted to NGs to have your identity
hijacked by spammers.

Mine appears quite regularly in all sorts of ways and places - I have tried
complaining to my own isp, but they seem incapable or, more likely, impotent
on this subject! (They have produced a "virtual, throwaway adress" by which
you can possibly keep track of where the source of the problem was
initiated.)

It is likely that you will start getting "genuine" bounce/rejection messages
from recipients who only see the source as you. I have been able to train
my isp's spam catcher to catch most of these before they reach me, but worry
that I could eventually be put on other isp's blacklists through no fault of
my own!

Peter
--
Peter & Elizabeth Corser
Linslade, Beds, UK



----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet
News==----
http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+
Newsgroups
----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =----

I have been getting malicious e-mails from someone in my address book.
McAfee and Zone Alarm deal with them usually if I inadvertently open them.
I hardly get any real spam as Demon Internet remove it all at source, thanks
Demon.
If any gets through, and if I don't know the person and/or the subject title
looks suspicious with an attachment it gets binned without even looking at it.
So anybody e-mailing me, please put in a meaningful subject line or else it
won't get read.
Martin - you are not in my address book as I know your e-mail address off by
heart !

Cheers,

Will.
--

" Stuff the thought police, I don't care anymore, I am free, I am me -
quack quack "
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A COL BH site in East Dartmoor at Haytor, Devon 310m asl (1017 feet).

mailto:
www: http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk

DISCLAIMER - All views and opinions expressed by myself are personal
and do not necessarily represent those of my employer.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


"Peter Corser" wrote in message
...
"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
...
All,

I have been contacted by one of the regular contributors to the ng who has
had an email that supposedly has come from one of my addresses (the one I
use, albeit 'altered', for FAQ matters), with links to German web sites.

Snip

Martin.



--
FAQ & Glossary for uk.sci.weather at:-
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/uswfaqfr.htm

Martin

It's quite common if you have regularly posted to NGs to have your identity
hijacked by spammers.

Mine appears quite regularly in all sorts of ways and places - I have tried
complaining to my own isp, but they seem incapable or, more likely, impotent
on this subject! (They have produced a "virtual, throwaway adress" by which
you can possibly keep track of where the source of the problem was
initiated.)

It is likely that you will start getting "genuine" bounce/rejection messages
from recipients who only see the source as you. I have been able to train
my isp's spam catcher to catch most of these before they reach me, but worry
that I could eventually be put on other isp's blacklists through no fault of
my own!

Peter
--
Peter & Elizabeth Corser
Linslade, Beds, UK



----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet
News==----
http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+
Newsgroups
----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =----

Peter Corser wrote:

It's quite common if you have regularly posted to NGs to have your identity
hijacked by spammers.

There are technological solutions to the problem, but many ISPs are slow
or loathe to implement them. The fact that you can send e-mails claiming
to be from anyone, even if it's not you, is a severe problem with
e-mails as they stand.

The only real way to stop it is to try to hide your e-mail address
(which many people do). Unfortunately, the spiders which trawl
newsgroups and websites are getting more and more sophisticated and can
spot common ways of hiding your e-mail address (such as replacing @ and
.. with AT and DOT).

--
Jonathan Stott
Canterbury Weather: http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/
Reverse my e-mail address to reply by e-mail

"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
...

The only real way to stop it is to try to hide your e-mail address
(which many people do). Unfortunately, the spiders which trawl
newsgroups and websites are getting more and more sophisticated and
can spot common ways of hiding your e-mail address (such as replacing
@ and . with AT and DOT).

.... yes, I've just changed my setup from the 'munged' addresses I used
to use to make them more obscure.

Martin.

On Fri, 20 May 2005 08:45:32 GMT, Martin Rowley wrote in


The only real way to stop it is to try to hide your e-mail address
(which many people do). Unfortunately, the spiders which trawl
newsgroups and websites are getting more and more sophisticated and
can spot common ways of hiding your e-mail address (such as replacing
@ and . with AT and DOT).

... yes, I've just changed my setup from the 'munged' addresses I used
to use to make them more obscure.

What I do is use an address solely for newsgroups. Until a few days ago I
was using . I had been using that
for many months with no spam getting to it at all.
Then last weekend that Sober worm caused me to get about 10 spam emails per
day. I simply logged on to the NTL site and modified it by adding a "1".
So, it is still a valid address and is checked in Mailwasher, but if it
starts attracting more Sober type emails, I'll simply modify it again.

--
Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 20/05/2005 09:00:54 UTC

On Fri, 20 May 2005 08:45:32 GMT, Martin Rowley wrote in


The only real way to stop it is to try to hide your e-mail address
(which many people do). Unfortunately, the spiders which trawl
newsgroups and websites are getting more and more sophisticated and
can spot common ways of hiding your e-mail address (such as replacing
@ and . with AT and DOT).

... yes, I've just changed my setup from the 'munged' addresses I used
to use to make them more obscure.

What I do is use an address solely for newsgroups. Until a few days ago I
was using . I had been using that
for many months with no spam getting to it at all.
Then last weekend that Sober worm caused me to get about 10 spam emails per
day. I simply logged on to the NTL site and modified it by adding a "1".
So, it is still a valid address and is checked in Mailwasher, but if it
starts attracting more Sober type emails, I'll simply modify it again.

--
Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 20/05/2005 09:00:54 UTC

On Fri, 20 May 2005 08:45:32 GMT, Martin Rowley wrote in


The only real way to stop it is to try to hide your e-mail address
(which many people do). Unfortunately, the spiders which trawl
newsgroups and websites are getting more and more sophisticated and
can spot common ways of hiding your e-mail address (such as replacing
@ and . with AT and DOT).

... yes, I've just changed my setup from the 'munged' addresses I used
to use to make them more obscure.

What I do is use an address solely for newsgroups. Until a few days ago I
was using . I had been using that
for many months with no spam getting to it at all.
Then last weekend that Sober worm caused me to get about 10 spam emails per
day. I simply logged on to the NTL site and modified it by adding a "1".
So, it is still a valid address and is checked in Mailwasher, but if it
starts attracting more Sober type emails, I'll simply modify it again.

--
Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 20/05/2005 09:00:54 UTC