Re: Re: Down or out

Not bad enough yet to do anything about it, but if it gets as bad as bad as
I had it at work, I will.
Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna " <justme@prairieinet.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:11 PM
Subject: RE: Re: [CHAT] Down or out


> I hate to say it, but sounds like they found you:(
>
> Most isp now have some type of spam blocker you can use. When this one
> started I was having a fit, since it was trashing everything, even chat
> messages!.. but now that they have the bugs worked out, it really is
> effective. I also like that my isp sends me notice at midnight daily
> with all the senders-subjects in a condensed one e-mail. I can pull it
> out of there, or go elsewhere and read any before downloading.... works
> like a charm.
>
> Maybe Comcast has it somewhere?
>
> Donna
>
> >
> > A problem I'm having in just the last 3 days is that spam is trickling
> in.
> > I'd only had 2 spam messages in 10 months with comcast and those may
> have
> > been related to a site I visited.  Then a few weeks ago I visited a
> couple
> > of job websites.  I received two spamish messages indicating these
> > headhunters types had found my jobsearch there and would be happy to
> help
> > me../yeah, sure... But again, I understand those.  But now since this
> > virus
> > mess I've gotten several pushing mortgages and today, one of theose
> > obvious
> > fake messages titled "Re: [something] Wanna know what I heard?" that
> hopes
> > you'll open it because it might be close to something you'd be
> expecting.
> >
> > I haven't been able to configure my home Outlook Express the way I had
> it
> > at
> > work - so that the read message window isn't available.  Consequently
> I
> > can't click on the message to delete it because it would automatically
> > open.
> > The way I had it at work prevents opening a message that may have a
> virus.
> > So I have been skipping around the bad message and then deleting it
> within
> > a
> > bunch of messages.
> >
> > I sure hope it doesn't get worse.  I've been relatively spam-free
> since I
> > dumped aol.
> >
> > Kitty
>
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