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Jack,
don't bank on your virginity. Once you e-mail to
a YAHOO! address your address is kidnapped and sold to spammers.
They then disseminate it.
I tried 'cleaning' softwares, they are fooled by
spams and cut off important non-spams (I found in the 'delete' my son's letter
from his company-email resembling some sign the software looked for). I also
used sofware that 'rejects' spams, thus just confirming that my address is a
'real and working' one.
With new e-mail address one loses friends and
important e-mail connections: people are negligent (me too) to update the
address-book.
So I erase my daily 2-300 spams (after Norton
phased out a lot of virus-infected garbage). I NEVER CLICK ANYTHING IN AN
E-MAIL if not from a reliable personal
acquaintance. I miss the best internet-offers - so what, in the beginning I
harvested once a virus, that was enough. When I work offline, I disconnect the
phone-plug from the computer to prevent intruders. I never use
"standby" mode, have no Fax and when not using,
the computer is disconnected from electricity.
My ISP (Prodigy) was kidnapped by a YAHOO!
subsidiary (SBC) - maybe others are luckier.
Sounds paranoid? you bet.
Have a good spam-day
John
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