joec@aracnet.com
Most placed have a way to enable 'White Lists' by domain/IP. I had that
problem with OBRA
emails for awhile as well until I whitelisted the obra.org domain name.
Joe
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:36:39 -0700, Cheryl Willson
wrote:
> There's a chance, if you up your spam settings with Comcast, that you
> won't get OBRA Chat emails. We had to jump through a lot of hoops to
> get them to stop refusing the OBRA Chat emails as potential spam.
>
> You can always read them online of course.
>
>
> On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:32 PM, wrote:
>
>> Let me add further to Kenji's post:
>> 1 - If you receive an email either to your primary email (i.e. Yahoo,
>> gmail, comcast) with the subject
>> "I cant beleive you did this!", it is likely a worm. It plants file
>> on your PC that scans
>> messages or files for personal information.
>>
>> 2 - There are a number of Facebook viruses running rampant in which
>> someone who may/maynot be on your
>> Freind's List that attempt to send you a link to pictures. This is
>> whre it helps to 'know' your
>> freinds. If it sounds even remotely out of character interms of
>> what they would write/say, then
>> are your friewnd's account has been compromised/hacked into.
>>
>> 3 - In terms of halting spam, the best defense is to block the crap at
>> the point of attack (literally).
>> If you go through Comcast, talk with them about adjusting your
>> firewall/email filter settings. If
>> you go through a local ISP (many of you have Spiritone), you can go
>> through their web-mail interface
>> and setup various spam filters to block specific countries (for
>> example, I dont allow anything from
>> China, Russia, France or Korea).
>>
>> 4 - In terms of virus software, I strongly recommedn ClamAV for either
>> linux or Mac users. For Windows,
>> Norton is good but NOT the best. Kapersky works better, especially
>> on the email/web-based attacks
>> that are all the 'rage' among hackers/phishers/criminals. It is
>> also cheaper ($27.00 vs $40.00).
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:11:20 -0700, "T. Kenji Sugahara"
>> wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> I seem to be getting a rather large number of e-mails from OBRA
>>> members' e-mail accounts that have been compromised. Please make sure
>>> that you always do the following:
>>>
>>> If you get a link from someone, never click on it- even if it is from
>>> someone you trust. Verify first. Is it from Facebook, Myspace? Go
>>> directly to your facebook and see if there's an actual message/post
>>> waiting.
>>> Double check with the sender- ask- did you send this to me?
>>>
>>> Use a strong password, especially on services such as hotmail and
>>> gmail. Don't use easy to guess passwords such as names, birth dates
>>> etc. Just to give you an example, I use 16 character passwords on my
>>> most secure stuff. While this may be overkill for most people, use a
>>> password that contains both digits, letters and symbols. Don't do
>>> something like your name and birth year though. That's easy enough
>>> for scammers to pick up.
>>>
>>> Make sure that you active virus/trojan/malware protection. Beware of
>>> popups that say "you have a virus, trojan, etc." There are known
>>> pieces of malware that are linked to those popups that actually
>>> install malware on your system.
>>
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