[alt-photo] Re: hacking

[Gordon Holtslander]

Email bourne viruse or spams usually harvest all the email address they can from an infected system and "forge" the senders address in the messages it sends out.

Its most likely that someone in the alt-process community has an infected machine, but it does not mean the apparent  "sender" of the message has an infected system.

The best strategy to prevent this is to get a good commercial  antivirus program (the free ones don't work well enough to rely upon) update your operating system, and continually update all the web plugins like acrobat, flash and quicktime.

And sorry Macs can be hacked too, 
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn2Own#The_contest

----- Original Message -----
From: Christina Anderson <zphoto at montana.net>
Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 9:23 am
Subject: [alt-photo] hacking
To: Alt List <alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org>

> I have received quite a few spam messages this morning, one from 
> Diana to the alt list--and a bunch labeled "late filing penalty" 
> (with such nice sounding names like Wilma, Deborah, and 
> Nina)  and so I think the hackers were busy at work last 
> night---beware! Hopefully no one has received any from me; if so 
> please let me know.
> Chris
> 
> Christina Z. Anderson
> christinaZanderson.com
> 
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