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Email Spam

All of a sudden I have begun getting SPAM messages from a number of people in my address book. Normally, I would expect this to reflect that THEIR email accounts were hacked, but the fact that I'm getting so many within a few days of each other makes me wonder if MY account has somehow been hacked (though I don't know how that would translate into ME getting the messages). The messages appear to come from someone I know, and as with all SPAM they have a generic subject line like "hi" or "check this out". The body always contains some version of:

hey what do you think of this http://msn.msnbc.com-december-18.net/jobs/

I haven't gone to the link to see what it is. Can you please tell me what this means, and if there's something I can do to fix it? Or if it needs fixing?

Thanks,

Phil

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Pavel Celba

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philsimmons

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I appreciate the general rules (and will follow them). Do you have any knowledge of what this specific SPAM may be for or from, and whether it is doing any damage to the folks who open it? And what we can do to eliminate it?

"aaaPHIL hi merry xmas, check this out .... http:// .... msn.msnbc.com-december-18.net/jobs/"

Thanks,

Phil

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Dave Baldwin

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philsimmons

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Thanks. My big ticket question is whether this particular SPAM is doing any harm to me, my computer, or the folks in my address book to whom it has been sent.

Tony Giangreco

We filter 99% of our spam out by using GFI Mail max Protection. It involves updating our mx records. All incomming mail is forwarded to GFI's mail server where it's checked and scored for spam. All good mail is directed to our mail servr. All spam is quarentined and we receive a daily report of what was caught in case any mail was flagged as spam incorrectly and we want to release it. we also white users that come up a false positive a number of times so their mail comes right through.

We've used it for about five years and it works very well. Pricing is pretty good compared to other simular services.

Dave Baldwin

None of these spams have done any harm here because I do not click on the links. So, of course, I don't know anything about the content at those sites. Because I do not click on the links.