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Spam.. can't stop it, it's everywhere!
Talon Mistsong
Ranger
in Zocalo v2.0
Just a minute ago I was online downloading stuff and some idiot sends me a message through kazaalite's message system. The message: an advertisement for Dell computers. I just got spammed.
I was tempted to reply with some nasty epithets. Which would no doubt have resulted in MORE spam. A friend of mine already gets ads on his phone display. What next? Spam in books?
I briefly pictured how advertisements could be worked into my own stories... and promptly stopped to avoid nausea
:eek:
I was tempted to reply with some nasty epithets. Which would no doubt have resulted in MORE spam. A friend of mine already gets ads on his phone display. What next? Spam in books?
I briefly pictured how advertisements could be worked into my own stories... and promptly stopped to avoid nausea
:eek:
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Its still norton though, and would not reccomend it on systems that are low on performance as it eats resources like a fat man eats carbs.
And it takes about 2 weeks to "train it" so that it knows what to allow and what not to allow.
[B]contain and delete it from your registry, and has a built in popup blocker to keep them away.[/B][/QUOTE]
I don't think that mail programs store emails in windows registry.
And for pop-ups: Opera's "refuse pop-ups" feature works great.:D
There isn't much you can do to stop spam in a program like Kazaa, unless you can tell it to ignore all messages. Getting spam on cellphones is just going a bit too far if you ask me.
D'you ever get where the signal doesn't work for days?! One guy phoned up to complain and they blamed his phone. Both mine and b/f's not worked either so he phoned again to say it wasn't just his! lol. Bumbling idiots. :rolleyes:
I demand public television broadcasted executions of spammers and now immediately!!
[B]Firefox for blocking web popups, firewall for blocking windows messaging system popups (the stuff that comes in over SMB), adaware for cleaning off spyware that can, among other things, produce popups.
There isn't much you can do to stop spam in a program like Kazaa, unless you can tell it to ignore all messages. Getting spam on cellphones is just going a bit too far if you ask me. [/B][/QUOTE]
Good idea for Kazaa. That same jackass tried spamming me again. They'll have to find someone else's bandwidth to squander. But spam on cellphones that you have to PAY for?? Now way. That should be illegal.
Here's something else for online privacy: [url]https://proxify.com[/url] Great for getting away with surfing at work, but you didn't hear that from me :D
[B]Not free? That is bad!
D'you ever get where the signal doesn't work for days?! One guy phoned up to complain and they blamed his phone. Both mine and b/f's not worked either so he phoned again to say it wasn't just his! lol. Bumbling idiots. :rolleyes: [/B][/QUOTE]
The only problem I ever really seem to have with my phone is sevice related. Verizon seems to have a think where, out of the blue, my phone is considered to be off, and calls go straight to voicemail. But, what's really fun about it is that I never get notification of these voice messages. In fact, they do not even register on the server until a few days later!
Though, it doesn't happen all that often (though, when it does, it's usually because there's an important person trying to call me. i.e. today, telling me my car was fixed exactly when I had the time and ability to get it).
[B]Personally, I fully support the death penalty for spammers. [/B][/QUOTE]
only if it's a slow, painfull death that is stretched over a few days.
Or even better: Lock them in a room until, let's say, the end of their lives, and have them watch ALL episodes of Pop-idol, Big Brother and ST:Voyager over and over again.
[B]Or even better: Lock them in a room until, let's say, the end of their lives, and have them watch ALL episodes of Pop-idol, Big Brother and ST:Voyager over and over again. [/B][/QUOTE]
Why not that electric chair method which I mentioned in [url=http://forums.firstones.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5721]this thread[/url]?
[B]The only problem I ever really seem to have with my phone is sevice related. Verizon seems to have a think where, out of the blue, my phone is considered to be off, and calls go straight to voicemail. But, what's really fun about it is that I never get notification of these voice messages. In fact, they do not even register on the server until a few days later!
Though, it doesn't happen all that often (though, when it does, it's usually because there's an important person trying to call me. i.e. today, telling me my car was fixed exactly when I had the time and ability to get it). [/B][/QUOTE]
I hate that you have to pay for voice mail.
I had two messages again from BT that woke me up. I was thinking in my half asleep mind that it was one of you guys winding me up since I'd just complained about it lol! Til I woke properly. :)
I don't have a package for it, and so I get charged some 2 cents per message recieved, and 10 cents for every message sent.
:)
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[B]Probably be cheaper on the whole to get a package deal?!
:) [/B][/QUOTE]
I've got Verizon and text messaging is part of the package deal. I used to have to deal with the problem that Sanfam had a few months back (I think the thread is called "Verizon 1, spammers 0" or something along the lines of that.). Anyways, it cost me a nickel for every damn message I got. Some asshole locally decided to start spamming all the verizon customers in the area with his shit. Well, an assload of angry customers hounded every single verizon store in the area, and ended up Verizon suing the shit out of the spammers. Never did hear what happened to them though.
Speaking of spammers, I remember reading a month or so back on /. about a group of people finding a spammer in an internet cafe and [b]force-fed[/b] him his USB thumbdrive! :D :D :D
[url]http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/05/1256254&mode=thread&tid=111&tid=126&tid=133&tid=186[/url]
This result isn't very surprising:
[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3633167.stm[/url]