Is It Just Me? Email/Spam Gone Crazy!

[SGRIM]

Is it just me or has anybody else noticed a huge amount in the junk email received? 95% of mine goes to the junk folder but I am getting 50 a night now

Seems the increase started with the conflicker stuff at the beginning of the month... Maybe I am just thinking to far into it...

Anyone else noticed it?

 

[JOHNDEEREGN]

Must be hackers

 

[JayC]

I have 14,000 spam emails in my spam box and I just emptied it about 3 weeks ago.

 

[scot w.]

Is it just me or has anybody else noticed a huge amount in the junk email received? 95% of mine goes to the junk folder but I am getting 50 a night now

Seems the increase started with the conflicker stuff at the beginning of the month... Maybe I am just thinking to far into it...

Anyone else noticed it?

I have noticed it also, I wish there was a way to stop it! I just send them to my spam folder but that don't seem to be working...


Scot W.

 

[Weester]

Who is your internet provider??? You can talk to them about it! Here at the museum I have filters that block 95-98% of the spam coming in. In any given week we receive 100-150,000 spam emails!!!!!

 

[turbo39151]

I'm sure I don't get as many as you guys but I have noticed that recently my spam emails have also gone up. About 10-20 per day...

 

[GNBRETT]

I have noticed that I was getting a lot of spam phone calls tho. I finally called back the numbers and was told if I didn't want them calling then press #1 to be placed on a no call list. Unbelievable.

 

[6APPEAL]

You can thank Conficker (who thanks all the dumbasses who don't update/protect their machines)! It has started delivering the first phase of it's spam payload. Get ready for more.
John

 

[Junior Samples]

Good thing I run Linux, dont have to worry about Conflicker or Buttlicker or whatever else you Windows OS guys have to deal with

 

[By-Tor]

Good thing I run Linux, dont have to worry about Conflicker or Buttlicker or whatever else you Windows OS guys have to deal with

Some of us can barely run windows!

 

[Weester]

Good thing I run Linux, dont have to worry about Conflicker or Buttlicker or whatever else you Windows OS guys have to deal with

Yeah,

But you still get the spam just like the rest of us..............:biggrin:

 

[David65]

Tip of the day? If you register an account with Youtube, don't ever give them an address you don't want spammed. Registered with them last year, created a Yahoo addy just for them. Wasn't a couple days and it was getting hundreds of junk emails daily. They were the only ones that *had* that account. Good thing I didn't use my good, real account...

 

[Junior Samples]

Tip of the day? If you register an account with Youtube, don't ever give them an address you don't want spammed. Registered with them last year, created a Yahoo addy just for them. Wasn't a couple days and it was getting hundreds of junk emails daily. They were the only ones that *had* that account. Good thing I didn't use my good, real account...

Exactamundo.. create Email you dont use for important stuff and anytime you sign up for somthin er whatever...use that email.... IM sure my Gmail is stuffed full

 

[V6 Beast]

Good thing I run Linux, dont have to worry about Conflicker or Buttlicker or whatever else you Windows OS guys have to deal with

There are plenty of Linux only viruses, worms and rootkits that us Windows users don't have to worry about. plus we can play Call of Duty 4 :biggrin:

 

[Junior Samples]

There are plenty of Linux only viruses, worms and rootkits that us Windows users don't have to worry about. plus we can play Call of Duty 4 :biggrin:

for virus-like code to spread among Linux boxes, it must be unfazed by the variety of CPU architectures Linux supports, and their diversity of software and of configuration. As long as Linux distributions remain diverse, they will be that much harder a target.

Linux systems can be indirectly affected by viruses arising on more-vulnerable systems. If you offer file-sharing services from a Linux machine to others on its network, such as NFS, Samba, or NetATalk, the other machines might well store infected programs on the shared volumes. (For this reason, sometimes Linux sysadmins run checkers to catch and remove foreign OS viruses from shared files, in-transit e-mail, and the like.) Also, the Linux boot process might be interrupted by operation of (say) a virus originating in MS-Windows, and affecting boot-sensitive areas such as the Master Boot Record. But these are not Linux viruses, which remain vanishingly rare and (effectively) a harmless curiosity.

As far as Call of Duty...well ya got me there