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Chris Hamilton
04-20-2006, 04:24 PM
Hello Group,

Just a few short notes this evening for everyone. First, I would like to ask
that any of you who do not have a virus/spyware program, to please do so and
check your computers as soon as possible. There are many free virus programs on
the internet also. The reason for this is that recently, Asc2k and my personal
email has been spammed big time by these spam stock messages. Since my email is
a secondary address on my verizon account, it never got any spam at all, but now
I am receiving 5 of these stock spams a day. This is happening also to the asc2k
site, but Yahoo has been catching them.

My thoughts here are that someone in the group who has emailed me and
asc2k-owner, and has those two addresses in their address book, has had their
computer infected by spyware that farms email addresses. So, please please, if
you haven't installed a virus program do so immediately. And, if you haven't
updated your installed virus program in a while, do that as soon as possible.

Now, for our posts...I just want to give a gentle nudge and ask that when you
post, please clean up all old ads at the end and summarize the other person's
post on which you are commenting. This shows consideration for our other members
and we don't have to re-read the same thing over and over again. If you are
commenting on paragraphs, be certain you make it clear who is saying what by
including the person's name or initial in front of what is being said.

And, finally, please read our rules that are located in the files section and
feel free to email me if you aren't certain something is on topic or not. Take
care, Chris



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Dave M.
04-20-2006, 05:34 PM
Well I've been getting this spam too. So I'm wondering if they got our email
addresses from
yahoo groups. Anyone else from the group getting them?

Chris Hamilton
04-20-2006, 06:10 PM
From: "Dave M." <dmeye@... (/group/asc2k/post?postID=3YNFuKObJFJG_xvdvHexcuj0wYiVprbQ96o2XI DLSNwGyQcUI1V8XvtmIOLmqyxkPLlT5bNcN54-CmCX2w)>


> Well I've been getting this spam too. So I'm wondering if they got our
> email addresses from
> yahoo groups. Anyone else from the group getting them?

Hi Dave,

The answer to your question I have to say is no, they are not getting
addresses from our group at least. The reason is that all the spam sent to
asc2k-owner has been from non-members. In fact, the senders of the Asc2k
spam are fake addresses-you know, like the kinds that mix and match names
and sites. Also, non-members can't see our members list. They have to join
first. But, non members can send messages to the owner, and that is how this
spam got thru-a spam to just asc2k from a non member will just bounce
instead. Chris