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Geek Culture / Spam ?

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Damokles
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Location: Belgium
Posted: 17th Oct 2004 18:27
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During this night (CET) I got 2 emails :

Quote: "
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 20:07:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Douglas Lerner" <doug012310@yahoo.com>
Object: you to...
To: damokles81@yahoo.fr


ive been watching.. dont cause trouble..."


Quote: "
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:07:40 -0400
From: "bob" <icantremembermyemailaddress@gmail.com>
To: damokles81@yahoo.fr
Object: so?


did you get the programs??"


This is my public adress, that I get on forums, my site, ... so I do believe it's not some of my friends.
So first of all, I would like to know if somebody else got the same emails, or mails from the same addresses.
Then I'd like to know if there is a possibilty that there wasa virus or something else in it (my A-V programm did not find anything, but I never trusted those at 100%).

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Neofish
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Location: A swimming pool of coke
Posted: 17th Oct 2004 18:30
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I have emails from the same address, demanding for software etc, but I deleted them...

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 17th Oct 2004 18:37
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I'm pretty sure they are the result of a virus (on someone elses PC!). I have had both messages too, but my mail client flagged them as junk and trashed them. They're not to you personally, don't worry. Just set your mail program to filter them out.

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- Oscar Wilde
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Neofish
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Posted: 17th Oct 2004 18:40
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will do no more spam

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Jeku
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Posted: 17th Oct 2004 18:45
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I'm not so sure they're a virus. There is a user here who has icantremembermyemailaddress@gmail.com as his email


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Richard Davey
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Posted: 17th Oct 2004 19:24
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Then it's an idiot rather than a virus Still worth filtering out

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Manticore Night
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Posted: 18th Oct 2004 04:25
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I got them too, never read'em just trasked 'em.

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