Fifty-two, that’s right. Fifty-two emails with exactly the same message. Two links to some German articles (one on national radicalism and terrorism, the other on some German school), and that’s it. Plain and simple web pages. No evident tracking, nothing. Just links to two pages. I can still sort of see getting one email (or, on an unlucky day, two emails) like that, but… fifty-two!? What’s the deal? At this moment, all I can say is that I love Thunderbird…
Update: this news article explains everything. At this moment, all I can say is that I love McAfee.
Mail for Mac works fine for me. Not had any spam for a while. As far as webmail goes, Squirrel Mail is pretty clean with only a few spam emails slipping througha month.
May 16th, 2005 at 3:50 am
I’m not concerned about the competence of Thunderbird — I’m satisfied with it, really. What I don’t understand is what possible reason a spammer could have to send me 52 emails. Maybe, I don’t know, three or something…
May 16th, 2005 at 7:09 am
I’ve gotten SPAM before. Well, not really SPAM, but disgusting e-mails from companies. I kept getting these e-mails called “Wanna be a bedroom superstar?” and crap like that. The worst part of it was, it actually showed a guy’s you-know-what. The product was some pill that–I don’t want to go in to it. It was really sick. Finally I went to the web site, gave them a piece of my mind using their contact form, and now I don’t get any more sick e-mails :)
May 16th, 2005 at 9:18 am
So far I’m getting none of that kind of spam and I use Norton.
May 18th, 2005 at 5:27 pm
Norton causes problems. It blocks all JavaScript in Internet Explorer, and you can never uninstall it completely. I’ve helped loads of people with computer problems, and a large segment of those people’s problems came from Norton. It’s really a mess. I don’t see how people still use it. McAfee is totally better. I didn’t get the virus, I just got an email from it. I was just confused because the email didn’t seem like it came from a virus.
May 18th, 2005 at 5:52 pm
I’m also using Norton, but the stupid program causes my computer to freeze at least 5 times a day! I think it’s uninstalled now, but that was one of the worst programs ever put on my computer.
May 19th, 2005 at 9:43 am
One, I don’t use IE, so that’s not nearly an issue. Sure, if you are cross browser testing JavaScript in IE, then it will be an issue. I guess you see how much JS I use. I’ve had no real issue with Norton and I use the 2005 version. I saw McAfee got the better reveiws for the 2005 editions, but I already have bought Norton at that time. I will point out that at least McAfee’s firewall program may have issues if you use Comcast as your ISP. A customer came in a gave me a long rant about how the firewall program completely screwed over his computer.
May 19th, 2005 at 2:02 pm
Well, considering most people use IE and the fact that Norton is a well-known and widely used program, non-tech users may have problems with web sites that utilize JavaScript (even unobtrusive JavaScript). The problem isn’t that I can’t test my scripts, it’s that the wide use of a product that cripples my scripts. I don’t have McAfee Firewall, but my dad uses it, and so far he hasn’t had any problems with it. Sometimes, there are those cases, though, that no matter what program it is, it screws something up. Why, look at Firefox 1.0.3 — I could never use that version of Firefox, for some reason. It just never worked. Yet, 1.0.2 and 1.0.4 work perfectly fine. Sometimes it’s just one of those mysterious bugs that creep into software and no one knows about them until it screws someone over a few times. Still, I see your point.
May 19th, 2005 at 2:10 pm