waves at Tom!! you still hangin' in there buddy?

the way Tom wrote it above, sounds the right way to write it as to what i had concluded, about this last time it came up,

basically i had likened it to phone tapping, if you were to tap someone's phone you could either pay the operator (server) or tap the receiver's phone (user) both good ways to get caught out, but if you were to tap in on any of the telegraph poles (routers) along the way in between the operator and the receiver, then there is a lot less chance that you would be discovered.

now, i would guess that Rendo' is only able to check for trojans/viruses and the like at their server, and maybe as far as up to the first point at which the cables are re-routed, after that i would guess that they can't find out anything for you, as i wouldn't think they can scan or check any further.

so i think it is very unfair to be aiming all this at Rendo', as i don't see how they can do anything to help.

anyway last time this came up i said i was doing some experiments to try and get rid of the scam spams, that i was getting at that time too, so this is what i did, and i now get none again, i write this incase it works for someone else too, might/might not.

1. turn off all e-bot notifications, fav artist uploads and forum replies( i still receive newsletter)

2. when you log out of here, clear your temp, cookie and history files! AND close down Explorer (whatever you use) then do a "disk cleanup" (takes couple of minutes to do) i do this because i noticed that even if you clear your temp folders, the cookies in there are still active, and the way to de-activate them is to "disk clean" and then look in your temp folder (still inside disk clean utility) group select all those folders and delete (these folders don't show up when you just look in your documents and setting temp folder!!), then when you click ok in disk clean, it will empty the recycle bin with them folders in.

3. don't open these scam emails ever!! as just opening them can relay a message to the sender that you have received it and so notify them that that email is active.

4. i also selected the option that my provider should delete all my spam (kept newsletter to make sure it didn't eat everything).i think if i were to get anything that didn't go to my email that it would go to outlook express folder, not sure though!! will check in minute if there is anything in there.

i think that is all i did, and eventually it stopped altogether, but i believe that the not opening these scam emails is the most important part, as i would guess that all the ones that are opened send back the message that they have been opened and then the scammers just store all the email addresses that have told them they are active, so next time they just send out to those active addresses.

anyway i don't know if any of that is right or wrong thing to do, but it worked for me, so just sharing info, just hope it works for someone else as it is annoying!!

Vince. (unchecks "Notify me when someone replies" box, then hits "post reply")