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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / October 2003Update
Wife retiring, cutting back expenses, high speed connection gone (and so is the 30 a day virus emails I was still getting). Back to dial up. Oh well. Guess what? New Earthlink account, two emails the first day, one from Earthlink welcoming me to their service, the other SPAM ! Heather, how could the spammers get my new email address before I even signed on for the first time? Then I get an email, supposedly from Earthlink, telling me to contract them immediately because there was a problem with my account information. And, if I did not they would cancel my account. When I, stupidly may I admit, clicked on the web link I got a "Cannot open page" error. So I contacted Customer Service. You guessed it. A fraudulent web site getting peoples' charge card information. It had been shut down the day before, so that is why I did not get the web page to come up. But I could, and if I did some sob would be charging it up on my credit card. Great life. The final indignity is that I have several emails from the "Postmaster" saying that a message that I never sent, to an address I never heard of, could not be delivered. Each has an attachment. I was at least smart enough to not open those, but again, this is a new account not even a week old. How the %#@& did they get the email information so fast? Where do I go to get some secure email service on the internet? Or is there any security out there? Is it the lawless old west, cutthroat and merciless. This is getting too long isn't it? Anyway, still using 4 to 5 pads per day. Really bummed out about that. On 50 mg. Viagra right now. No sign of life, but seeing Mike's message does give me hope. Eleven months for him, I am closing in on 90 days. That visit, and PSA test, is next Monday afternoon. Wonder how long it will take to get the test results? Bet that will be a long wait. Take care everybody. Thank you. David S. Hey, You do sound troubled. Do you have a good virus program #1. Does the server quarantine messages that are undesireable.? If you answer yes to both questions you are half way there. Do you screen your messages as they come in? Do not allow attachemnts from anyone unless you know them amd want them. Avoid mail like Microsoft. Mail server New Patch Old Patch Patch Patch Ptch. These guys will get your dander up! What you do need to do is turn off the computer and walk........ Go to work....... Drink lots of fluids. Try differing erectile aids. Pump is fun! Injection therapy takes a bit of swallowing. After you pass the test, Viagra will probably work May take 1 to 2 years. Did for me. I am 49 at time of proatate removal. I am 53 now and get great erections. Just trying to help and I am not out of the woods. I live in the woods. John Loomis. ask any questions. Funny how prostate cancer makes us take our pants off and wonder what is up? Keep trying. John Loomis > Wife retiring, cutting back expenses, high speed connection gone (and so > is the 30 a day virus emails I was still getting). Back to dial up. Oh [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > Thank you. > David S. I don't know, David, but it happened to me too when I signed up for a German news server (CIS.DFN). In no time flat, my account got a lot of spam in German. But I use a 'throw-away' account for any sign-ups on the 'net. Usually Hotmail or Yahoo. FWIW......I am getting at least 30-50 porn/spam/viruses on my dialup account that I haven't used for a year now. A secure email account? There is one (and probably more). And I don't think it costs all that much. Go to www.spamcop.net and read about their spam-free stuff. I have a friend who uses it and I believe that they 'vet' every email that comes in and ask you if it is kosher. If it is, then they allow the email through. If not, bye bye. I noticed it the first time I wrote him at home (another Dave, sigh)......he had to approve me as a friend before they would let me through. Good idea. I use their website to report spam and have done so for years. That part is free. But with retirement and cutting back......just use Mailwasher for all accounts and delete the junk. There are simply too many ways for unscrupulous spammers to get your address......and I can't keep up with them. Cheers.....Heather > Wife retiring, cutting back expenses, high speed connection gone (and so > is the 30 a day virus emails I was still getting). Back to dial up. Oh > well. Guess what? New Earthlink account, two emails the first day, one > from Earthlink welcoming me to their service, the other SPAM ! Heather, > how could the spammers get my new email address before I even signed on for > the first time? How the %#@& did they get the email information so fast? Where > do I go to get some secure email service on the internet? Or is there any > security out there? Is it the lawless old west, cutthroat and merciless. > This is getting too long isn't it? > New Earthlink account, two emails the first day, one > from Earthlink welcoming me to their service, the other SPAM ! Heather, [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > security out there? Is it the lawless old west, cutthroat and merciless. > This is getting too long isn't it? Sure makes one wonder,given what Heather experienced too. The Postmaster ones started coming in 24 hours after I changed e-mail accounts (not ISP). Anyway, I use Pop Peeper. Why? Well, just before I decided to change e-mails, I was getting MailWasher Popups on certain web pages. IT ticked me off ! Each has different features but so far Pop Peeper has nothing to sell (as a "come on") http://www.mailwasher.net/ Bounce e-mails? I thought that was exactly the wrong thing to do? Something about bounce e-mails causing net jams? http://www.poppeeper.com/ I set "delete immediate" which means it disappears as soon as I select one, as opposed to disappearing at the next scheduled e-mail check. Anyway, FWIW J > http://www.mailwasher.net/ Bounce e-mails? I thought that was exactly the wrong > thing to do? Something about bounce e-mails causing net jams? Hi J..... Never heard of Popup Peeper, but I use Popup Stopper sometimes when surfing. I NEVER bounce emails.......for the very reason you state.....and the added reason that they are fake return addresses. I use Spamcop to report a lot of them. I have both dialup and cable on here and use Mailwasher for the dialup (and that ISP will not allow me to bounce emails).......the Rogers cable stuff I just report to Spamcop (who in turn vet my Mailwasher as part of the process).......and get them banned. www.spamcop.net for a free page of your own to report it. Makes me feel real good to report the porn.......but Steve K. insists that I have to send him copies of it......sigh!! (gotcha!!) Heather > Makes me feel real good to report the porn.......but Steve K. insists > that I have to send him copies of it......sigh!! (gotcha!!) ROTFL J > Makes me feel real good to report the porn.......but Steve K. insists > that I have to send him copies of it......sigh!! (gotcha!!) > > Heather Thanks Heather. But I'm on Lupron now. You can just delete it.  SignatureSteve Kramer PSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46 Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 PSA .1 .1 .1 .3 .4 .8 EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .3 .2 .2 .2 .3 Erection 05/12/2003 @ 48 Begin Lupron 07/21/2003 @ 48 PSA .1 Glad to see you back. Sorry to hear 'about your financial woes. Maybe you can pick up some work around tax time and put away a broadband stash. Of cours, at 56K, you probably won't get this message until May. SignatureSteve Kramer PSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46 Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 PSA .1 .1 .1 .3 .4 .8 EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .3 .2 .2 .2 .3 Erection 05/12/2003 @ 48 Begin Lupron 07/21/2003 @ 48 PSA .1 > Wife retiring, cutting back expenses, high speed connection gone (and so > is the 30 a day virus emails I was still getting). Back to dial up. Oh [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > Thank you. > David S. hi steve - 56k!!!!! next year??? man, what i'm typing on is so old that moby dick was just a minnow when it was made. would you believe 33k?????? ~ curtis knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional Ha! That's great. I can still remember trying to start a BBS. I wanted to be the first such site by a business of our kind. I had to bring in a 14,400 modem from home because we couldn't get a requisition for a $200 28.8. That was 1995. By April 1997, we had one of the first websites in our business going out on a T1 and my company paid for it all. My how times change. SignatureSteve Kramer PSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46 Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 PSA .1 .1 .1 .3 .4 .8 EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .3 .2 .2 .2 .3 Erection 05/12/2003 @ 48 Begin Lupron 07/21/2003 @ 48 PSA .1 > hi steve - 56k!!!!! next year??? > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional I now have a new email account at USA.NET, use mail washer pro and have received no spam in my mailbox since the move. My old yahoo mailbox is getting 30-50 spams a day but all of it is filtered into "Junk" and automatically deleted daily. The filter I use is that if the mail is not addressed to my new email address it is spam. I also no longer use the free news account that comes with yahoo. I subscribe to a service and have purchased a reader. Cost me a few bucks but it has been worth it. Shorty |
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