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News about the swine flu is definitely everywhere.  Can’t turn on the TV or read your news feed without seeing something about it.

Of course, this means all those spammers who use current events (of which many of them do) are sending out lots of email with something about swine fu in he subject line.

In this case there have been warnings sent around that some of these emails actually contain malware.  Malware comes from the words MALicious and softWARE, which is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner’s informed consent.

Malware includes computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, spyware, dishonest adware, crimeware and other malicious and unwanted software.

With all of wanting to know about the latest news about the swine flu you may open an email that looks like it has news.  DON’T.

If you think there is some new information, you should go to CNN, MSNBC or wherever you get your online news to find out the latest.

If you have already opened an email like that you should have your computer checked for possible malware.  Update and run your virus program (Kaspersky, Norton, Panda, McAfee, etc.) and then your spyware program (like Spybot).

If this spam is getting through your filter, you also need to set up a new filter that will stop the spam from even getting to you, like ours.

A rant from a friend of mine:

Getting spam from myfanbox.com? Yeah me too, its stupid and driving me crazy.  10 to 20 pieces of spam per day, and making it through the spam filter built into my email, SICK OF IT!

Who cares about myfanbox.com really. I went to the domain, and OMG does it look bad, a crazy website.

Spammers need to burn in the you know what, really, can’t we all get productive doing something else with our time, time is valuable is it not?

I have no time to find open ports on the internet and then lock into them and generate millions of email message about some new “enlargement” process. How does anyone else have this much free time?

Maybe this is why America is in the financial position it is in today.  Too many idiots on the internet creating messages about god knows what, and then us American’s being so bored with our meager life that we click “opt in” and then get SPAM up the rear.

It never said I was “opting in” to have my name and email address sold over 10,000,000 times did it? Never click “opt in”, you are asking for SPAM!

Sorry I am so bitter, I am just sick and tired of the idea of Spam!!!