Chrissy Cruiser wrote:
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> >
> Jeremy, I'll bet that 95% of the people who have PCs have no clue that it
> is a lockless door to your life, privacy, wealth and identity. You're
> right, there is tons of freeware that can take care of that.
>
> Recently, I was having a email conversation with a bright individual. It
> was ended when the subject was getting down to the nitty gritty of privacy
> and the like. On the other end, I believe, it was ended because the Truth
> is painful. On my end, it was over when one of my private emails got
> forwarded. How did I know? Wrote a small program that sends back to my PC a
> tag whenever someone forwards an obviously private email. Did that person
> know that I was tagging, no, but did know not to fwd anything.
>
> All they had to do was turn off HTML or put in a firewall. Both are
> freebies.
>
>
That was a cool trick. My favorite tool, despite the soft and hard
firewalls for incoming and outgoing, anti-spyware/trojan, is mail
washer. Never have to download anything from anyone I do not know, it
has a learning curve for spam and for new people I do not entirely
trust, I can reply without having to download the message to read it and
later delete it on the server. HTML is for writing webpages, not for
email :-)
My record of found spyware, virus and trojans on a friends computer that
I was buttoning up;
565 spyware installs with 6 of those logging password screens
22 trojans, 8 logging passwords and secure site urls in I.E.
3 active virus infections.
The wondered why they were getting a lot of spam and their speed demon
computer with cable was running like a 486 with a 33.6 kbps modem :-)
JJ
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