By Will Sturgeon
Published: Friday 26 January 2007
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Anonymous
Location
Scotland
Occupation
Media and PR consultant
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My email inbox is being bombarded by messages offering stock market tips. There are no attachments to open to allow a virus in; there are no requests to answer and as far as I can see they have no potential value to anyone, so why am I getting them? (I simply delete them, but when they come in batches of 10 or 12, it's a pain).
Fellow readers will have guessed that I am not a technical type, so my apologies to those of you who are. I would simply like to know if there is any danger and if there is a way of stopping these messages. Spam filters don't seem to work as the headers and messages constantly change.
Colin.
So why are people just watching these botnets inst...
Richard Davies
My email inbox is being bombarded by messages offe...
Anonymous
You have to ask youself one question...
... who...
Anonymous
To Anonymous from Scotland, what you are getting i...
Simon
So, an estimated 25% of computers are infected wit...
BillK
Get a gmail account.
Google's spam filters work v...
BillK
Why not nail the companies that are using botnets ...
Anonymous
Anonymouse of Stoke:
I note that you call yours...
Lionel A Smith
<Yawn> The monthly scaremonger by the security com...
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