Ebay Security Check SCAM *VERY IMPORTANT*

[Henry Mydlarz]

When browsing the internet and reading my email I maintain a "healthy level
of paranoia" if there's such a thing. Whether it's a "Microsoft Security
Update" or "Mail returned undelivered" or other increasingly sophisticated
tricks to get you to read emails, process virus-carrying attachments or
divulge information, I treat them all as bogus, unless it is something I
expect to receive. The more sensitive the data on your computer them more
suspicious you should be.

Henry

"Dane L. Galden" <chig...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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> There's also been a BestBuy scam that tells you someone is fraudulently
> using your credit card at their site, but the link is to some credit
report
> checking service.
>
> Dane.
>
>
> "bigmike" <big...@cornhusker.net> wrote in message
> news:3ef23a11$0$72723$9a6e...@news.newshosting.com...
> >
> > "Glenn" <asparag...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> > news:8IqIa.160091$h42....@twister.nyc.rr.com...
> > > I received an email supposidly from ebay today requesting that i log
in
> > > using my username and password.
> > >
> > > It was a beautiful reproduction of the ebay login screen but I felt it
> was
> > a
> > > little suspicious so I used a phony login and password and a pop up
> window
> > > came up to http://www.okerugby.com/ .
> > >
> > > Apparently someone is using HTML in their email to collect usernames
and
> > > passwords.
> > >
> > > DO NOT REPLY TO THIS SCAM EMAIL IF YOU SHOULD RECEIVE IT!
> >
> > Thanks for the tip!
> >
> >
>
>

[bigmike]

I love having my ISP block junk mail and virus infected mail for me. Since I
started using this service, not one virus infected email has made it
through. A few junk emails get through sometimes, but nothing compared to
the level of junk mail they catch, and stop.

"Henry Mydlarz" <he...@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
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[Ray L. Volts]

"bigmike" <big...@cornhusker.net> wrote in message

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> I love having my ISP block junk mail and virus infected mail for me. Since
I
> started using this service, not one virus infected email has made it
> through. A few junk emails get through sometimes, but nothing compared to
> the level of junk mail they catch, and stop.

Can you configure the parameters of their blocker for your specific account?
Otherwise, it seems to me if they're using a generic block for junk mail, it
may prevent you from receiving certain mails you may want...

[Ray L. Volts]

"Henry Mydlarz" <he...@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
news:3ef2b364$0$5432$afc3...@news.optusnet.com.au...

> When browsing the internet and reading my email I maintain a "healthy
level
> of paranoia" if there's such a thing. Whether it's a "Microsoft Security
> Update" or "Mail returned undelivered" or other increasingly sophisticated
> tricks to get you to read emails, process virus-carrying attachments or
> divulge information, I treat them all as bogus, unless it is something I
> expect to receive. The more sensitive the data on your computer them more
> suspicious you should be.

To all:

Following are some useful tips. If you're already aware of them, please
don't flame me. I'm just trying to help thwart spammers and hacker brats.
:)

You can set Outlook Express (Syncronization Settings) to download only the
headers of emails when you sync up with a hotmail account. This allows you
to delete suspicious emails w/o actually downloading them onto your PC.
You can set Outlook Express (Tools>>Options>>Security) to prevent email
attachments from being opened. This lets you view the attachment filename
w/o actually opening it, so you can get rid of it before it does damage.

You can defeat the dreaded self-propogating viruses by adding a bogus
contact to your address book. The one I use is:
account name: !0000
account email: zz...@zzzz.zzz

This will appear as the first contact on your list. You'd think the virus
would simply skip to the next available contact in the list, but from what
I've read and been told, it cannot process this and it stops dead in its
tracks. Has anyone run across a mailer virus that this has failed to halt?

[Ray L. Volts]

"Ray L. Volts" <rayl...@SPAMRIDhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> You can set Outlook Express (Syncronization Settings) to download

> You can defeat the dreaded self-propogating viruses

yes, I know I misspelled SyncHronization and propAgating.. hey, it's 4am,
cut me some slack ;)

[Peter Gottlieb]

Yes, been doing this for a while and been successful. However, like many
people here I am responsible for many more systems than my own and it is
difficult to get non-saavy users to understand and follow these kind of
procedures. All security procedures are like double-edged swords in that
you lose functionality to get security, for example, preventing the opening
of attachments stops a lot of virii but also greatly reduces the utility of
email as a means of moving formatted documents and presentations around.

"Henry Mydlarz" <he...@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
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[Mike Berger]

And even then it's likely to happen.

Two recent examples include the 600 Harvard acceptance e-mails that
AOL filtered as spam, and the AT&T rate increase e-mail to their own
clients that they filtered.

So when people tell me how they filter spam so successfully, I wonder
what they're missing.

[Henry Mydlarz]

Another relative newcomer is this "spyware" - applications which install
themselves on the PC simply by going to some site. These "applications" may
monitor your viewing preferences or more deviously monitor passwords. You
may not be aware you have something like this running until such an
application, which is generally badly written, causes your PC to slow down,
crash, or make it impossible to open other applications. I have found that
spyware is difficult to remove. Even if it appears under "add/remove
programs", that will not remove it, generally necessitating the deletion of
Registry entries, files and startup commands. Virus checkers will not
generally detect such spyware. There are some spyware monitoring
applications (I think "Spybot" is one) and they also have to be constantly
updated in a similar way to updating virus definition files.

By the way, as you imply, Peter, I prefer not to use any filters and know
what email I get, even if I don't read it. I like to make my own decision
whether to delete it.

Henry

"Peter Gottlieb" <1780...@icq.net> wrote in message
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[bigmike]

Actually, my ISP filters my email for me, separating the junk and virus
files, from my desired email. And they do a pretty damm good job of it also.
All I have to do is go to their website and once and a while and I can read
through the junk mail and delete what I don't want. I can also read files
with viruses attached without infecting my system. It is VERY seldom that
they filter anything other than actual junk mail. They also allow you to set
options that determine what gets through and what doesn't. They have a good
system in place. At first I was skeptical about it, but not anymore. I can
still read all the junk mail at will, but it keeps the crap off of my
system, and that includes email with dangerous code in it, and attached
virus files.

"Henry Mydlarz" <he...@optushome.com.au> wrote in message

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