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spam and blank emails... spyware? — #1

Hello all... I can't remember which website, or web order that this may have originated from, but I'm now getting a whole crapload of spam. What worries me is that I've been gettin…
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spam and blank emails... spyware? — #2

If you're worried about spyware and viruses on your Mac, don't worry - you're still safe. I've never gotten completely blank spam - that's got to be a pretty inefficient sales mode…
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spam and blank emails... spyware? — #3

What you're seeing is almost certainly spyware/virus attacks aimed at PCs, and you don't have to worry about your Mac getting infected because code for PCs just does NOT work on Ma…
MacNN Software by ghporter

spam and blank emails... spyware? — #4

FWIW, I have gotten empty spams before. I think they still come all the time -- but my email provider's spam filter catches them. tooki
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spam and blank emails... spyware? — #5

those emails with blank subject and from lines are the Davinia.B email worm. Here's the Symantec description: "VBS.Davinia.B is an email worm that mails a message written in HTML …
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spam and blank emails... spyware? — #6

BTW, amazing, mephastopholes is talking about emails with no SENDER, either. Who's the ISP? If it's Comcast, then you're not alone, *lots* of users have been getting these emails …
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spam and blank emails... spyware? — #7

thanks for the responses... apfhex, you are correct, the isp is comcast, but i haven't gone so far as to take a look at the full header info or anything of that sort yet... i just …
MacNN Software by mephastopholes

spam and blank emails... spyware? — #8

Quote: Originally Posted by Apfhex BTW, amazing, mephastopholes is talking about emails with no SENDER, either. Who's the ISP? If it's Comcast, then you're not alone, *lots* of…
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spam and blank emails... spyware? — #9

Quote: Originally Posted by mephastopholes thanks for the responses... apfhex, you are correct, the isp is comcast, but i haven't gone so far as to take a look at the full heade…
MacNN Software by Millennium

spam and blank emails... spyware? — #10

Quote: Originally Posted by amazing those emails with blank subject and from lines are the Davinia.B email worm. Here's the Symantec description: "VBS.Davinia.B is an email wor…
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spam and blank emails... spyware? — #11

Quote: Originally Posted by amazing Yes, blank senders as well, that's listed in my post under "blank subject and from lines". In the past, seemingly blank emails have containe…
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spam and blank emails... spyware? — #12

hello all... jsut wanted to follow up... i was anticipating setting up a rule as stated above, but have noticed that the empty emails have seemingly ended (at least for now)... ya'…
MacNN Software by mephastopholes

This ad actually ran in The Atlanta Journal: — #7

Quote: Originally Posted by mojo2 BTW, I repeatedly tried posting this and it wouldn't work UNTIL I took ALL the words, "BLACK" out of the title and copy and then re-spaced the …
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This ad actually ran in The Atlanta Journal: — #8

Quote: Originally Posted by tooki There's a filter, but it doesn't prevent posting -- it replaces the offending words with asterisks, like this: **** you, stupid malfunctioning …
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