Damned Spammers have gone "progressive" now.

[mcscajun]

Can't tell me the spammers haven't gotten into what goes through to one of our e-mailboxes or stolen lists from progressives sites, take your pick. I've got an address that gets almost nothing but progressive/political mail; this morning I noticed in it an unopened e-mail from last week with the subject "On Monday, Sen. Patrick Leahy, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary *(they ran out of subject line at that point)* -- with the content offering IMMEDIATE Cash on home equity.

:grr:

Another from last week was headed: A vote on a motion to end debate on the Alito nomination is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Same damned content as the other one.

"But analysts said the Supreme Court decision wasn't surprising..." was a third, that went on to try and sell me Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra.

:mad:

[Ian David]

1. This is something we need to keep an eye on. n/t

[AGKISTRODON]

2. Spyware

Someone knows too much about your net surfing. What kind of spyware software are you using?

[mcscajun]

4. I've got a battery of 'em ... and I do run them regularly.

In addition to the Spamblocker and Scamblocker provided by my ISP, I'm running AVG with their e-mail scanner enabled. ZoneAlarm Pro runs my firewall, and I regularly update and run Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition, Spybot Search & Destroy, SpywareBlaster, CWSShredder, and keep Hijack This! on hand for those pesky browser hijacks.

I don't spend nearly as much time surfing political sites as some do, and when I use DU and other sites it's with a different e-mail address, not the one getting the political mail. So my original premise is still foremost; someone, and this just recently now, knows too much about what kind of mail I get at this particular (non-surfing address) mailbox.

[greekspeak]

3. I get these all the time, and ones with stupid subject lines

like "car jelly behomoth stones" from people like Eulalie Barishnikov.

[mcscajun]

5. Yeah, we all get the stupid subject lines. Last year it was long strings

of perfectly good English words chosen at random making absolutely no sense at all.

It's a constant battle between spammers and the developers of spam filters; there's also a concurrent battle between online users and the spammers in the latter's attempts to engage our attention outside of the protective layers we've built up around us to not get suckered.

[greekspeak]

6. What sucks about all this is what CAN get filtered out.

I have to check my junk-email all the time because my protection software kicks actual e-mail out with the junk. Of course, it still misses a lot of junk mail too.