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Frank,
I didn't even go to that site recently or ever give them information
but I'm getting those blank emails from ??????@?????.it I don't even
know anyone's email address in Italy. They only started recently and
they are coming to both my email addresses on two different ISPs. I
have not had the Omega List on the second ISP for weeks now. What do
you suppose they are sending in those blank emails????????? I get no
virus alert. My ev1 ISP even has their own virus scanner. Well now
that is interesting. Every once in a while EV1 says the Omega Digest
had a virus in it. Ok I'm confused.
Jimmy
Friday, July 25, 2003, 3:57:49 PM, you wrote:
FF> As much as I want to laugh and distribute Darwin Awards to all
FF> those who installed this free piece of Software from Italy
FF> onto their unprotected computers containing their trading ideas, I've
FF> done my share to foolish things too.
FF> For example, before I wised up about using proxies and SSL tunneling,
FF> I've learned my lesson from exposing my IP to IRC trading chat rooms,
FF> while simultaneously logged onto the online trading software. It
FF> never occurred to me that IT people working for legitimate brokerage
FF> firms, data feed providers, online software developers, and even
FF> people from my own ISP with an itch for trading, may also be logged on
FF> to the same IRC chat room as well.
FF> As soon as I got well into a political rant in the chat room, my firewall
FF> lit up like a Christmas tree with several attempts to connect to the very ports my trading
FF> software uses. In my case, the IRC and the trading software were on
FF> two separate computers under a VPN. But that didn't seem to help. The IP
FF> addresses of the intruder were similar, but as I later found out, none
FF> were associated with the software firm. Coincidental random port
FF> scans? I think not. The trading world is very a small world indeed.
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Best regards,
Jimmy Snowden
mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxx
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