I don't believe it...got a bill from my server for extra traffic. Great, I though, more web traffic, means more hits right? Um, no, this was email. "You mean this extra 8 bucks a month is to cover the email? But 90% of it is spam!" It was delivered nonetheless....and therefore you are stuck with it! (actually, I deleted 69 messages a moment ago, leaving four real email messages!
I don't think thats right.......lets tweak the spam filter up a bit! There, that should work!
But honestly, eight bucks a month! That is, like, an extra hundred bucks a year just so I can hear how the Hoodia Plant will...hmmm...what WILL it do? Thats over and above my regular half a grand a year service. OMG!
I will have to do something about this!
On a related note, has any of my loyal readers downloaded a "re-director" while blog surfing? Last week, it seemed that every second blog I surfed into was a variant on a porn site. They were interesting (No, not in THAT way!)because they could not be bookmarked, and when I tried to cut and paste the URL's into a complaint letter, my Windows would crash! This happened twice, and again on a Norton scan...so I do not believe it to be a co-incidence!
(A dozen times through with Adaware, Spycatcher, and Norton (oooh..it didn't like Norton or RegCleaner!) seems to have cleared it.
-------------------------------- Shakespeare on Spam (by Anonymous)
These several airy unnamed messengers
Do daily cram my inbox bursting full;
And with a battery of promises (Of manhood's lengthening, safe and natural;
Of sites whereat strange couplings may be seen,
Or beauties nubile as the law allows;
Of meetings with old schoolmates, none of whom I've spared a brace of thoughts for these ten years)
Make sifting out my correspondences A passing trial.
O, take care, my friends!
The rambling jest you send has like been seen Ten times, forwarded by some jackanapes;
And sooth, I'll not contribute to a chain
But risk the lapse in fortunes an I don't.
Of all conveniences, these are most meet:
The Bulk folder,
"Select All,"
and "Delete."
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6 comments:
A run-through with HijackThis! and CWSShredder wouldn't hurt, either. Believe it or don't, user signatures (profile links) are a good dietary source of infection. You'd think that somebody'd figger out how to block the escape characters that allow the injection to happen, but that's expecting too much, I guess. (And there are buttholes out there who use malware hit counters -- I can't understand anyone who's put a script link on their page that they haven't checked out first.)
WOW! I'd tell you what the word verification for this comment is, but you'd get flagged for content.
They're charging you that much for email? Eesh!
Maybe its time for you to start shopping around?
Right! I forgot I had Shredder. Ran it. Yup, I'm clean.
Zlanth, the $500 bucks or so I pay Cyberus for internet service is to maintain and host a commercial web site. The email is kind of accreted on to the service. I don't resent paying the half grand a year because I get SERVICE! No shit, there is somebody there 24-7 who monitors my site, backs it up regularly, protects it from hackers, crackers, and zombie-makers.
I pay for "throughput", and a few extra bucks means lots and lots of hits on the site. Thats a good thing, means the site is working.
The few extra bucks for email throughput....now thats just wrong! OTOH, my wife's hotmail is almost impossible to use since it is slowed almost to unusability due to heavy activity (spam?), her g-mail is becoming much the same, while Cyberus's spam filters stop 50 odd messages for every one that gets through...and today (8 hours!) alone, I cleared 45 spam messages. It is these 45 messages that I get charged for. Tweaking the spam filter to keep even more junk out of my inbox will fix the problem, however I will have to check the filters more often to make sure real legitimate emails make it through! Sometimes legit emails get stopped even now!
Things in the high tech world change almost monthly! What is a good service last year is ho-hum this year. An example is web site space. 12 years ago, web site space was expensive. Now it is very cheap. My 500 bucks is paying for a hundred times the space it paid for only 8 years ago! And now Cyberus has a new idea...they will maintain a multi-gigabyte hard drive at their facility (in Fifth Avenue Court, only a short walk from your house!) for only a nominal fee...
I guess that would be worth it if I were to host movies on my web site! For now, it is more than I need, though you never know!!! You have any ideas, let me know.
Bill
Weird -- I haven't seen any spam problems with Gmail. Sure, there's a lot o' spam, but I've never seen any slowdowns because of it. Then, I clean it out daily (Select all -> Delete forever) so there are never more than, say, 100 messages in the Spam folder at any given time. (Daily? What's up wit dat? Well, I do subscribe to a number of online tech newsletters, and I need to see if Gmail's rather strong spam filter has gotten any of them.)
Yeah, I'm still waiting for my delivery of Viagra. Love Shakespeare.
Maybe I don't get as much spam on my published email addresses (gmail for example) because I tend to mail back death threats.
Because what are they going to do, call the police? "Hello Officer! I was illegally spamming this guy to the brink of insanity and he threatened to rip my head off and use it for target practice! Oh wait I just confessed to a crime, doh!"
Works out well. :D
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