You’d think I’d be happy but it seems to be ominously quiet on the spam front from my viewpoint. News is that an old virus, (Sinowal/Torpig/Mebroot), constantly re-jigged, is wreaking havoc with people’s PCs and bank accounts.
However, this past weekend has been remarkably quiet and I’ve had hardly any spam on my various email accounts and hardly any attacks on my various websites.
But like they say in the westerns,
“I don’t like it lieutenant, those pesky injuns are too darned quiet.”
- and then a dirty great arrow will hit him right in the chest,
ssss…Thung!
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November 4, 2008 at 8:00 am
It got me!
I had a message squeeze through on an old post from 80.127.72.73 which is in Holland. It said, “dbamg jeynps huaqkjgl snfczw ktbrxqzph gurezbk yaget”
Of course, it might look like Double Dutch to you, but I would say, in the words of Francis Urquhart,