[Vision2020] Email Viruses

[Saundra Lund]

Visionaries:

Has anyone else been plagued by a positive plethora of email viruses
recently?

Fortunately, I have excellent virus protection as well as some other
safeguards, but starting at 5:10 PM on Friday, I have been absolutely
inundated (I won't tell how many but its in the double digits) by email
virus attempts to one -- and only one -- of my email addys, and it just
happens to be the one I typically use to post to V2020.  Since I'm pretty
particular about which email addys I use for what, I've a fairly good idea
of where my email addy was harvested from.  Go figure!

For comparison purposes, I can tell you that email addy had only had *one*
virus attempt in the several proceeding months.  I find the timing
incredibly odd, but who knows what lurks in the pathetic minds that come up
with these kinds of attacks.

Short of ditching this email addy (which would be easy enough, I guess), any
suggestions?  Any chance my ISP can trace the source(s)?

In the meantime, I'm backing up my hard drive every 30 minutes instead of
once a day & keeping the previous images for 1 week . . . just in case  :-)


TIA,
Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.
Edmund Burke