Re: A new level of spam?

["Collin Turner" <straylightsghost -at- gmail -dot- com>]

A recent report stated that 1 of 3 spam messages results in a conversion
(click/sale). Until people get over their...um...fetish for Fine Replica
Watches? I think we're in it for the long haul. It's one reason I've become
very good with Gmail's filters.

-Collin



On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Larry Usselman <elgrans -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> I highly recommend the WOT (Web of Trust) free Internet security
> plug-in for your browser. It does an excellent job of alerting you to
> dangerous or otherwise undesirable (trojans, viruses, phishing, porn,
> scams, etc.) sites BEFORE you click and find yourself somewhere you'd
> rather not be. It displays a small color-coded icon next to any
> hyperlinks, advising you of the relative safety of that site. The
> accuracy of the coding is quite good and is updated constantly via
> user input.
>
> Here's the WOT site: http://www.mywot.com/
>
> On 8/21/08, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> wrote:
> > Junk mail filtering looks at the plain text content of the message and
> >  associates it with other known junk mail. Antispyware scans e-mail
> >  attachments for malicious content. But neither one investigates the
> >  linked Wed addresses embedded in the e-mail message.
> >
> >  Firefox and Google can check a Web address for malicious content
> >  *before* you go to it. You'd think that there would be a way to link
> >  that functionality with an antispyware program. I use Spy Sweeper at
> >  home and wrote to the vendor (Webroot) about this; their response was
> >  essentially, "Sorry, no can do."
> >
>
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