-=PCTechTalk=- Re: SpamAarrest??
- From: "cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:52:58 -0400
Spam arrest is a service you pay for to protect your computer from spam.
It is one that is sponsored at spyware info - I trust what they say in that
newsletter.
Spyware Weekly had been recommended to me a while back - I posted the link the
other day
http://www.spywareinfo.com/
I also read about spam arrest in some other anti-spyware web sites a while back.
It seems that this style of
protection started out on the corporate level, and has been able to be filtered
down
to the public level.
I am very wary of putting my address out there - and doing things that would
give me more spam than I already receive. I would never go to a spam filter's
web site that solicits itself thru normal spam, and those come in to me at least
once or twice/day. This is basically Jim choosing to use a service, and he is
asking, thru the service, for you to tell him whether you are a human or a
computer. computer's can't read the instructions to click on the link - so it
will block them. ONce you click his link, it will let them know your e-mail
address is a human, and legit - and it will be added to his account as a safe
address.
I guess it is possible that they could harvest these addresses, but I think this
is a legitimate program, making money for a needed service - and they would
really be stupid to then turn around and sell everyone's addresses! Not that it
couldn't happen - I don't know how they do it technically - but I've heard of
this particular program, and think it is a legit one.
a friend got one the other day from a program I had never heard of - I worry
that with all of the spam out there, this is going to be what everyone ends up
doing down the road. which is a real shame.
anyway - just my opinion on the subject!!
crisS
----- Original Message -----
From: Barnstoneworth
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 7:22 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: SpamAarrest??
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glo" <redowl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I think we all have by now, but some are clicking on it, some not. I got
it
> in an email to my personal address, plus it's been on the list. --Glo
Yes, I thought everyone would be getting messages like this-the big problem
is, I'm going to to be getting one every time I post a message to the
list -I'm not prepared to click on any link in an e mail, so isn't this
supposed anti Spam blocker actually creating Spam??
Andy
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