Re: Spam - Snow white

["Rebecca St. James Fan" <cc44@mailandnews.com>]

Peter Homann <peter.homann@prrDOTorg.au> wrote in message
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> Chris wrote:
>
> > I have been getting this every couple of days and probaby also people
who
> > have posted to this newsgroup.
> >
> > Does anybody know how do it prevent this shit from arriving in my inbox
> > every second day?
>
> Three things:
>
> 1/ Proactive - bugger up you email address a bit so that automatic address
> grabbers can't get it;
>
> 2/ Reactive - report the spammer to their ISP.  Look in the headers of the
> email to find their source IP address, do a "nslookup x.x.x.x" and send an
> email to abuse@isp...  If enough people do that, the account *may* be
> closed.
>
> 3/ Reactive - get some email filtering software and send all email
> originating from that address to "trash".
>
> Summary:
>     Method 1 works very well.
>     Method 2 is very rarely acted on.
>     Method 3 works well, but spammers usually change their "address"
> regularly anyway.
>
> Cheers.
>


first up this is not spam. it is a virus. the best advice is to try to find
out who sent it and let tem know as odds are they don't know they are
infrcted