Brian's porn site spam
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Catfat | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 10:20 am     Be warned, folks. I clicked on the link provided on this list yesterday the one with naked pictures of Brian and some girl, I was there maybe 10 sseconds at most, and closed the window. Now I am getting spam solicitations for Adult sites, it took them less than a day. I haven't had spam of ANY kind for several months because I changed my email address, my provider has good filters, plus other manipulations to get rid of this crap, so I know exactly where it came from. I am not a stuffy old prude, I am an artist and paint nudes, men and women. No big deal. I just wanted to warn everyone that if you click on this link, you will start getting porno spam. Puke, barf, upchuck. |
Bob2112 | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 10:57 am     It is not likely that accessing this site alone caused the porno spam. That web site would only see your IP address and would have no information about your email address. I clicked on this link several days ago and have not received any spam. More likely is that you have some spyware running on your machine that is forwarding information (including your email address) to another company when you access certain (or all) web sites and even when you send email. You can identify and clean up the spyware running on your computer by downloading a free program like Ad-aware from www.lavasoft.nu It is not unusual to find over 100 pieces of spyware the first time you run the program, especially if you use download programs like Kazaa, etc.... You should be able to clear out most, if not all, of the spyware, but some freeware programs may stop running since they require the spyware to be present. |
Catfat | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 11:13 am     Thanks, Bob. Good advice. I've already deleted the offending email. You are probably right. It is just that the coincidence was not be be ignored. It wasn't just that the subject matter was offensive, it was the spam that irritated me. I am opposed to pornography on political grounds, not morals, of which I have none. |
Bryan | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 11:27 am     not morals, of which I have none I am with you on this one Catfat, I have no morals either. |
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