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its defo just spam

Don't panic chuck - we're all quite well-laid back really :-D :-D :-D

Bloomin' spam - I'm fed up with being asked if I would like a large one :-D

Thanks Wend...don't mind if I do! :-D :-D :-D

BC - you do make me giggle sometimes :-D :-D :-D

to help prevent spamming, or emails being sent to all your contacts due to a virus ............................


make the first entry in your email address book ....................



AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA


if a hacker breaks in, or you get a virus, it sends out emails starting at the beginning ........ it meets that one, and the email will not go ............... so the virus cannot move onto the next address in line


Neat, and easy to do



I was given that tip way way back in 2003 ............................

that hoax has fooled people for years!
the aaa etc thingy does not work!

Errol


why do you ALWAYS know better than anyone else?????????



All I know is that I have not been informed by anyone that they have received spam email from my address ...................... and I most certainly do not think that I have been lucky enough not to have been sent a virus



The only other thing I do, is never open an email that I do not recognise it, nor do I click on a link in an email.

I beg your pardon?

I tried to give advice and if for some strange or personal reason you don't like it then your problem - certainly not mine

The latest issue of Lost Cousins has an article about these email scams.

http://lostcousins.com/newsletters/midmar13news.htm#Scams

When it comes to anything about computers or the internet, I would trust Errol's advice over anyone else on this site. :-D

what idiot RR'd this??????????????


Ridiculous


:-( :-( :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P

I have had many yahoo emails, subject line :RE ?????? they are spam and offer a link to be clicked on.....
usually something like a "villain" lives near you, click here to find out who, or some one has made allegations.......click here to find out what.......and so on

.....I dont, I just delete em, but the genuine users' address Has been compromised, and is thus suspect.......Never click on a link that you dont know is genuine

Errol its like the rabbi that had been praying at the wailing wall for years, a tourist asked him why, and he said I wish for peace all over the world , the tourist said "does it have results, do you think"...... No Good lady he says Its just like banging your head against a wall

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/virus-control-hoax.html

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/quickfix.asp

Thank you for that Guinevere - maybe SylviaInCanada would like to apologise now.

Carol thank you, too.

And Bobtanian - I have a permanent bruise on my forehead.

As to why the thread has been reported - I am at a total loss. What on earth could be deemed offensive, in breach of conditions etc?

Errol better than anyone else?! bit of a sweeping statement and so untrue - with regard to computer matters, and speaking as a computer dimwit, I have always found Errol to be helpful in the extreme

Carol was speaking of computer matters, AnnC. Yes, I am impressed by Errol - much as I hate to admit it.

I was hacked last week. Letters sent out to all my address list. Got about 30 Daemon Mailer (or is it Mailer Daemon) letters saying email was no longer valid. Also emails from folk I had not written to for ages.

Told them all I had been hacked and not to open attachment. But have now got to write again and tell them I was spammed :-( :-( What a palaver!!! What a kerfuffle.

I was refrerring to Sylvia's comment - most uncalled for

Well what a laugh I have had over my opening post on this thread been RR'd.

Is there a club for the people who have been RR'd cos this is the 1st time .

Whayyy I am not a virgin poster anymore.

I just feel so sorry for the RR er.

I think they need lots of help...

:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D to the RR,er Smile though your heart is breaking. :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D