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What Chip said
By:DanG
Date: 11/11/2003, 1:28 pm
In Response To: Re: Off Topic: Check your Browser Settings (Chip Sandresky)

The email address I use here is only for this use, and I've never had anything in it that I didn't expect. I don't get much spam in my main account, either.

The setting Chip mentioned (IE has it too) is the biggest source of spam. It allows cookies to exchange that info with the 'owner' of the cookie. With all of the third-party ad servers, it gets out quickly. There is a way to reset it manually, but it's a registry edit and I'm not going to advise those from here. PC World has some downloadable free utilities that will do that plus affect a bunch of other security enhancements at your choice.

I say leave the forum as is. It allows detailed issues to be discussed 'off line'.

Of course, run a firewall, antivirus, and ad-aware or equivalent.

Dan.

Messages In This Thread

Off Topic: Email harvested from this site by spammers
Mike and Rikki -- 11/10/2003, 2:44 pm
Re: Off Topic: Check your Browser Settings
Chip Sandresky -- 11/11/2003, 12:57 pm
What Chip said
DanG -- 11/11/2003, 1:28 pm
which setting is it in IE?
Frank Eberdt -- 11/11/2003, 1:45 pm
Re: which setting is it in IE? *LINK*
Dan G -- 11/12/2003, 10:01 am
Re: which setting is it in IE? *LINK*
Rob P. -- 11/11/2003, 5:31 pm
thanks *NM*
Frank Eberdt -- 11/11/2003, 10:43 pm
Re: Off Topic: Email harvested from this site by s
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 11/11/2003, 9:20 am
Re: Off Topic: Email - leave it the way it is
Roy Morford -- 11/11/2003, 11:58 am
Re: Off Topic: Email harvested from this site by s
Rehd -- 11/11/2003, 11:51 am
Re: Off Topic: Email harvested from this site by s
Robert N Pruden -- 11/10/2003, 11:49 pm
I post a lot here, and don't have a spam problem
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/10/2003, 9:43 pm
maybe the bots don't search real long postings :) *NM*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/10/2003, 9:44 pm
Re: That's funny... cuz I don't get spam either ;) *NM*
Scott Ferguson -- 11/11/2003, 11:02 am
Re: Off Topic: Email harvested from this site by s
Glen Smith -- 11/10/2003, 9:02 pm
Re: Off Topic: Email harvested from this site by s
Ted Henry -- 11/10/2003, 8:33 pm
Re: Off Topic: Email harvested from this site by s
Mike and Rikki -- 11/13/2003, 2:03 am
Re: Off Topic: Email harvested from this site by s
Bill Price -- 11/10/2003, 7:12 pm
Re: Off Topic: Email harvested from this site by s
Joubin -- 11/10/2003, 4:25 pm
Poison pill
Robert N Pruden -- 11/11/2003, 12:03 am
Re: Poison pill
Rob P. -- 11/11/2003, 5:20 pm
Re: Off Topic: Email harvested from this site by s
Danny Cox -- 11/10/2003, 3:00 pm
Re: Off Topic: Email harvested from this site by s
Andy Waddington -- 11/11/2003, 4:11 am
Re: Off Topic: Email harvested from this site by s
A. Stenson -- 11/10/2003, 3:55 pm
even more friggin spam receieved
Mike and Rikki -- 11/10/2003, 2:48 pm