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[optimost]

In my view this article is fine for the very tech savvy reader. Personally, it left me wondering just exactly how I would execute most of the recommendations in the article. Most of the information I could not act on.

[daveferreira]

It doesn't have to be an infected computer. Some spammers spoof your own address sending to you because it gets through a lot of simple filters. Other spammers will use their list of email addresses to spoof randomly, so it might be luck of the draw.

If your email address is in ANYONE else's hands (especially if you post in USENET or on message boards that expose the email address, or it was sold by someone you have done business with), then you are fixing the gate after the cow left the farm.

Get a good spam filter and write a rule that kills email from yourself when it didn't come from your server. That's about the only way to stop YOU from getting these messages. Other people - well, go back to the cow-farm metaphor.

[seymor50]

microsoft has a malicious software removal tool, which is free to the public. go to microsoft marketplace and choose free downloads i believe