Get ready for Christmas spam [文章]

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Get ready for Christmas spam

On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me six emails for penis enlargement... five for cheap credit... four for Viagra... three for match-making...


On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me...

Six emails for penis enlargement... five for cheap credit... four for Viagra... three for match-making... two for get-rich-quick secrets... and an electronic greetings card with a hidden virus that turned my computer into a spamming machine.

2003 will be the most spam-filled Christmas, experts say.

This year, hucksters and hackers are teaming up to ensure that your Christmas email inbox will be stuffed with rubbish: some tedious, some offensive, some destructive -- and all of it junk.

From now until the New Year, delete buttons, firewalls and spam filters will have to be in good shape.

"Spam, viruses and malicious code are set to peak in December," says filtering firm Clearswift. "The spammers will attempt to peddle seasonal products to employees full of the Christmas spirit."

Almost a quarter of the spam it stopped for its clients in October was associated with offers of cheap loans for people worried about the cost of Christmas, says Clearswift.

There will be some good on-line commerces, which will be emailing known customers to trail Christmas gifts such as books, CDs, and DVD players.

And hidden in the overall flood could be some very nasty stuff for your computer.

A much-feared worm is the next generation of SoBig, which hijacks unprotected computers with an open connection to the Internet, turning these machines into a potential spam factory.

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huckster
[n] 小商贩
hacker
[n] 电脑黑客
tedious
[adj] 乏味的
offensive
[adj] 讨厌的
destructive
[adj] 破坏性的
malicious
[adj] 恶意的
peddle
[v] 兜售
hijack
[v] 劫持
spam
[n] 垃圾邮件

imongUID: 140258

How about spam mail from minghui.net? :D

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i got 8 spams per day on average. :(  i was tiring of deleting such tedious and offensive rubbishes.  :mad:  the makers should be punished by law! :o

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最初由 imong 发布
[B]How about spam mail from minghui.net? :D [/B]

yeah,I recieved one spam from that site,offensive,isn't it? :mad: