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 -- Herbert Herbert zur Nedden German Archimedes Group http://www.gag.de Herausgeber DER deutschen RISC OS-Zeitschrift. --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support