[LINK] Antony Barry shared a link on your Wall.

[Jan Whitaker]

At 04:38 PM 5/05/2011, Antony Barry you wrote:
>On 05/05/2011, at 4:24 PM, linda rouse wrote:
>
> > I feel equally as silly by responding! It really tickled my 
> curiosity and like you Tony, I dont usually respond!
> > I've since has emails from old colleagues saying 'did you really 
> send this?' !!  So I probably perpetuated it as well...

I fell for one the other day that was about photos from a friend on a 
website I didn't recognise. When I went there, you had to sign up (I 
didn't). It was then I noticed the WOT (Web of Trust) circle was 
warning this site was a problem. Since then, I've received quite a 
few more messages with malware, which is a nuisance. Fortunately, my 
antivirus finds them and lets me know. But then I have to continually 
tell the AV program to discard the thing. Fortunately, I use an old 
email program that pretty much does text only in its display unless I 
tell it otherwise, so none of those funny script things work, and I 
don't think they can grab my address book.

I got a phishing mail today saying I had a personal Tweet. Since I 
don't use Twitter, that was obviously a bad one.

I was tempted for a time to collect some of the more clever phishing 
emails, sort of like collecting twine or bellybutton lint, but 
decided like those weird hobbies, it wasn't worth the time to do so.

Jan



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