[iyonix-support] Re: Spam infiltration

In message <7393154d4e.druck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          "David J. Ruck" <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 27 Jul 2006 Iyonix.2006@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > It seems that for some reason our mail addresses have indeed been caught
> > by some spammer since I just got this nice offering which was sent to
> > my email address I use just for this maillist (and amended in the mail
> > header quoted below) and which I set up beginning of this year, that is
> > it is not really old and was never used for anything else.
> 
> Freelists seems to be doing a good job at preventing trawling from the list
> archive, munging addresses in headers, attributions, body text and
> signatures. So its more quite likely that there is a compromised PC on the
> list.

Well then only those who posted items on this list are subject to this
SPAM since in the header I see two addresses only: The sender's address
and my own since that has to be there so that the mail gets here...

> If anyone is foolish enough to be using a Windows machine, please
> ensure it is adequately protected from viruses and spyware, or remove
> it from the internet.

Anyone using a Windows machine on internet should run it behind a
router, have a good and always up to date virus and spyware protection,
a firewall and - more often than not forgotten - not use an account
which is administrator but a simple user account since then if some new
virus/spyware/... tries to install itself chances are quite high that
it fails due to lack of permission. The admin account should be used for
software installation only!

Herbert





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