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Very Strange Spam
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| Categories: General Thoughts At their request, I monitor my parents' [in their 70's] email accounts, train SpamAssassin, see what Dr. Web has isolated, and protect them as much as possible from the onslaught of junk email that they get. Via email and IM, they communicate more with their nieces, nephews and grand nieces and nephews, then when they lived much closer to them than 3000 miles away.
Recently, my father has been getting spam addressing my cousin by her current, married name, but sent to his email address. This is truly an odd one. I keep their TrendMicro NeatSuite for SMB [Pc-cillin] virus definitions up-to-date on their computer, and run weekly virus scans as well as Ad-aware and Spybot - Search & Destroy. I really can't figure out how this "cross over event" has happened.
As I spend my hours training spam filters and tossing junk down the bit bucket, I truly believe that email will cease being a useful form of communication, to be replaced by feed syndication, IM, blogs, wikis and collaboration sites.
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anyway, we DO have a family blog which everyone blogs in and yes, it IS a wonderful way to keep in touch :)
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