Isn’t spam fun? Today’s gem involved an e-mail which made it past my filter and had the subject line “stolen”, message body “you are a bad writer”, and an attached file. The trusting soul thinks “This sounds like an angry person who thinks I stole someone’s writing. Perhaps the attachment is a copy of what I “stole”, and I’d sure be curious if someone is out there copying what I’ve written.” Fortunately, I’m not that trusting of a soul, and Norton was kind enough to tell me that the attachment was a virus. I liked it better when destructive e-mails came in more predictable packages.
Glimpses of the websurfing habits of a computer science professor, obsessive crafter, occasional gamer, and all around geek