Re: Re-installing

In article
<1155335328.476955.141460@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Three Stooges" <erniemac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jim Carlson wrote:
In article <1155330627.605494.321690@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Three Stooges" <erniemac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In addition, "nasties" from the internet can easily corrupt your hard
disks.

I'm confused. It was my understanding that there are no Macintosh
viruses -- Apple even says this in their advertising -- and I've read
that there's no Mac spyware, either, so what can a Mac user pick up from
the Internet that can easily corrupt your hard disks?

ALL you need to do is to disagree with SOME posters on ANY BOARD and
you will get "pleasant surprises". Why do you think all the "experts"
do not show their real email address ? Not for discouraging spammers as
they let you have !

No, actually it is because of spammers. My previous email address
was accurate, and I was getting some of the most graphic (sexually
explicit) spam and every pill pushing spam, and I was made offer
after offer to help transfer millions of dollars from an African
country, etc...

This went on for years, but over time the volume got larger and
larger, until my email address made was picked up by the "Swen
Worm". Then I started getting 1GB per day of Swen Worm emails
(that is 1 billion bytes of email per day).

The good news was it was to my work email account. The bad news
was that work had lots of bandwidth but was not prepared store
several gigabytes of email from me over the weekend, or if I went
on vacation.

And for my part I could not delete the email fast enough.

I eventually had to spend several days to learn 'procmail' and
filter out the swen worm. Then I worked on filtering out the
other spam. But over all it was a pain.

And the only place my email address was used publicly was in
theres news groups.

So yes, I now have a new email address, and I obscure it so that
spammers that harvest email addresses from news groups will not be
able to get my email address easily. In addition, the email
address, while real, is one that I can delete and create a new
email address should this one become a spam target.

My email address is also forwarded to a Google gmail account, and
gmail does a really good job of filtering spam.

And I know people can decode my email address because I've receive
a few emails from people that have read something I've posted.

If you personally have not be spammed via your email address, it
might be that your ISP has been filtering your email, or the
spammers have not gotten around to harvesting your email address.

Bob Harris

Ofcourse there are Mac viruses, but Windows is far bigger and causes
most chaos giving sic! greater pleasure !

It is just not worth going here.

Ernie Lee
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