Last edited by Ken Fitzgerald; 03-20-2016 at 4:15 PM.
Ken
So much to learn, so little time.....
AAs far as I can tell there is no Google group it is just a facade that the spammed uses to make it seem legit.
Paul
This ^^^^ all of this ^^^^.
Very little about spam email is valid... the "group" you are supposedly a part of, the privacy notice attached at the bottom, the physical address listed for the business, etc. Two things, and two things only are going to be valid (and not in a good way)... the link to the "product", and the "unsubscribe" link. Click on either and you just set yourself up for a boatload of more spam.
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Larry had the honor of being the subject of my first Thunderbird email filter entry. His efforts go straight to 'delete'.
I wouldn't know for sure. But I would guess that you could put an hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly cap on sent emails.
Hmmm... That's not a bad idea. You go into your email account and set the caps and you get an email from your ISP if you hit a cap. That email would have to include some sort of validation involving an image like Captcha to prove that you are human. Generally, hitting a cap would tell you that you have a bot infection and you need to find it. Such a thing would also make it less worthwhile for the guys creating the trojans. If they have to go to a lot of trouble to infect your machine only to get 50 emails out of the deal, they would have to infect a great many machines to generate the millions of emails they need to be successful.
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I'll just add to Dan's comment: Sometimes the "unsubscribe" link will take you to a "blackmail" page, where it tells you that your data has been encrypted and if you want to be able to access it again, call this number. They will then ask you for your credit card number - which they will charge for the blackmail, but then they'll sell your credit card info.
Usually, the blackmail web page will be set up so you can't close it - you try to "X" it out and it doesn't work. You try to shut down your browser and you can't. Just power down your computer and when you start it up again, close the web page before it can load again. They haven't encrypted your data.
Mike
[I know people who gave their credit card to these people - they don't give you the code to close out the web page right away - they delay sending it so they can use your card somewhere. I also got a "blackmail" page one time and shut down my computer and all was fine.]
Last edited by Mike Henderson; 03-21-2016 at 6:26 PM.
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I haven't heard from Larry, so I'm feeling left out
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Ah, Larry old buddy.... Had one visit, took the appropriate measures, bye bye Larry.
Had a couple people ask about the spam program I mentioned. It doesn't work with windows 10 and I'm not sure if the developer is still in operation. For your interest though it was called spamitback.
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No need to shut down. In windows just use the Ctl Alt Del keys and select task manager, click on the browser and then on end task. In mac click on the black apple logo in the top left. Select force quit option from the list, click on the browser and click force quit.
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Jet BD-920W 9"x20" metal lathe
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everyone on this thread getting it has something in common
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Last edited by Myk Rian; 03-22-2016 at 8:10 PM.
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