On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 08:12 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > I followed the thing you click and it's a odd web page that will > take your E-Bay name and password if you give it. So more Scam than > Virus it appears. Nothing new in that. But standard advice is to never to respond to junk mail, in any way (which includes not following links in them), other than hitting your delete key. That link could have had an ID in it unique to you, and you could have just added yourself to more spammer's lists. Never mind the potential of exposing yourself to exploits through your browser. Reporting junk mail isn't always advisable, either, unless you really know what you're doing. Those who don't know can end up making the report to the spammer, making a report to a host that doesn't care, making a report to a host that forwards your complaint onto the spammer, making a report that cause trouble for the people who's addresses were forged in the spam, and so on. Various anti-spam systems have their own ways of collecting data to identify spam that manage quite fine without the trying-to-be-helpful amateur. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
