I just hate spam in all forms.  About 98% of all my email is spam.  With Outlook, I use a Rule to seek out particular words but it is difficult to catcth 'V1Agra' and 'Me.ga.Dik' and the ever changing variations that spammers use to avoid detections.

I hate spammers - they should be summarily executed with Gatling guns shooting small pebbles (the more insidious and slow the death, the better!).  The point here is 'Do unto others as they have done unto you'.  So, for the 10,000,000,000,000 spam emails, they should not perish without the same number of small wounds - death by a billion small irritating cuts.

Yahoo mail is not so bad at catching spam, but it does regularly mark good emails as spam.  Not horrific, but it shows that in order to fight this lopsided battle, casualties are to be expected.

Spammers need to be spammed at a million times the rate - so frustrating them that they can no longer cope and give up.  Heck, the innocent here have hundreds of millions of computers at our disposal.  Let's teach them how it feels...

Yes and it is especially cruel when they send you poetry.

Do you ever get subject lines that very vaguely but ever so slightly make you believe they can read the subject lines of your recent outgoing legit emails? That happens to me every few months.

::::: Opera :::::

Google and their focused advertisements freak me out. Once, I misspelled a word in their search engine and Google Ads brought up help for dyslexia. Paloth's Freebies

dyslexics of the world, Untie!..;) I'm not dyslexic, but my fingers are...;)
I use Ad Aware and Avast, should use some other stuff, but lately I just don't go to all that many sites...just here...;) (riiiight..;)

Awesome and sobering spam indeed! We only have to ask, What comes next?

@ operaguy 

Quote *"Do you ever get subject lines that very vaguely but ever so slightly make you believe they can read the subject lines of your recent outgoing legit emails? That happens to me every few months."

• Seems that you just might have a very good reason to check your system for something suspicious.
  These are the new tactics of netbots and what have you, they don't shout it out loud anymore they stay in the background and are ever so quite, you wouldn't know that they are there but they monitor everything you do!

If you haven't got good antivirus spyware ect. then checkout www.Kaspersky.com its really neat and its getting some very good reviews, it finds things that other antivirus packages just don't!

Actually, gmail is too smart.
I was talking about the new Transformers movie and gmail showed an ad for (what else?) Transformers action figures. As I was looking at the figures, I saw this: Optimus Prime Statue. Yep, you read that right- 2 Meter/ 6.5 Feet tall!!!

OT (sorta):

I saw that chair video too. I just wonder how stable it would be to sit in. Cool nonetheless.

In the near future GMail will give rise to a self aware entity on the net from the vast amounts of data... Project 2501. LOL. :biggrin:

PXP, that's the thing...i am hightly protected by all of Bill's XP patchs, firewall on, virus protection (2) and XofSpy and SpyBotSD.

:: og ::

@ operaguy

Indeed its worrying stuff and since you have done just about as much as you can that certainly makes it worse.
My personal stratergy is to use a dedicated computer just for internet and mail. I isolate my work station completely so I know that the chances of strange things happening are lessened, however you can never be sure of anything but its better than nothing at all, if you are able to isolate your work with a second machine that is.

It is such a shame that the brilliant minds that go to work creating such loathsome sofware are not benefitting the free world one bit when they could be helping the world in positive constructive ways hitherto unimagined.

agreed pxp.

and I do have both my DAW (music) and my 3D computers off the net.

::::: Opera :::::

Sounds like it might be time for someone to write a story or movie about the day when humans, sensing The Net is getting too powerful and threatening, try to unplug It, but fail because all their emailed plans are being read by It, and their even their live conversations are listened to a la Hal reading Dave's lips in "2001"....