On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Mark Brown <eufdp...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> my account has been compromised, please watch out for false content! > > I think a lot of Yahoo! accounts got hacked recently. Dunno more
They did. > beyond that, sorry. I got actual spam from two real friends / people / > correspondents within 24 hours a few weeks ago, so I immediately > contacted both of them to warn them. I got spam from Yahoo account holding friends, too. > Sad, really, that we live in such a cruel world. I suggest changing > your password (if not already) and/or creating another email account > with a different provider (e.g. Gmail). Not foolproof but better than > nothing. I have a Yahoo account, but it's essentially unused. I use GMail as my primary email account, and it polls various others so all mail appears in my GMail Inbox. (GMail is set so that replies I make to mail harvested from other accounts appears to come *from* those accounts.) The Yahoo account exists solely for the occasion when I need to send an executable as an attachment, which GMail has forbidden from its inception as a security measure. (There are ways around it, but they are a PITA for both sides.) GMail is fanatically anti-spam, and has changed the way I think about it. I no longer *care*, because I almost never see it. GMail has the best spam filters I've seen, and perhaps one spam message every two weeks hits my Inbox. Click Report Spam, and I don't see it *again*. I prefer the web interface, so while I *could* set GMail to deliver via POP and read it locally, I don't bother. I don't need a local copy of 99.9% of the mail I get, and if I need one it's trivial to get. GMail also implements viewers for most common file types, so I can look at attachments online without having to download them. This is another security feature, as email attachments are the single biggest vector for viruses. The attachments generally live on Google's servers, and never reach my machine. And GMail's two-phase authentication makes it unlikely that account will be hacked. ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
