"Gene Schurg" wrote in message ink.net...
OK folks,

All of you are putting your email address out there for the Bots that walk
the web to pick up.

For example the Bot looks at the news group and sees:

"J. Del Col" wrote in message
m...
"keith" wrote in message
...


From that they can harvest two valid email addresses.

Go into your newsgroup reader and change the email address to something that
invalidates the address you post when you post to this newsgroup such as



The Bot would now pick an invalid email that would bounce back.

Someone manually typing would know to remove the "NOSPAM" to send you a
valid email. It should be easy to do in your newreader software. For
Outlook Express go to Accounts and then pick Properties.

When I did this my spam dropped dramatically!

Now get back to growing Orchids!

Gene

This won't stop 32.Swen. It is an auto-mailer worm that hijacks the
e-mail lists of people who -do- know your real e-mail address and then
sends itself to you in an avalanche of phony
Microsoft e-mails.

It also attempts to disable anti-virus programs.

If people are being bombarded by scores of such e-mails every day, it
means that someone with whom they exchange e-mail has been hit by
32.Swen or one of its morphs.


It's become a -big- problem on the net.

J. Del Col