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Skriven 2006-02-07 06:46:00 av George Vandervort (1:382/8)
  Kommentar till text 15224 av Charles Angelich (1:123/140)
Ärende: Antivirus for Win98
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Hello Charles!

Monday February 06 2006 23:54, CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to PAUL ROGERS:

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 CA>
 CA> "Makes sense" is a comparative term comparable to beauty being
 CA> in the eye of the beholder. Lately I have had to update my
 CA> virus scanner's database daily and replace my firewall with an
 CA> updated version. I have gone to Microsoft for 'rootkit
 CA> revealer' software and to others for third party 'revealers' of
 CA> rootkits. The problem with WMF files required a third-party
 CA> patch because Microsoft would not be moved to release anything
 CA> even after the WMF exploit was widely advertised. Even SONY has
 CA> gotten into the 'game' with rootkit installations.
 CA>
 CA> To do what I feel must be done to keep a 'clean' system absorbs
 CA> more and more of my day and I don't enjoy any of it. The
 CA> internet is becoming a broken down old whore-house where petty
 CA> criminals are free to roam and even boast about their
 CA> accomplishments while users struggle to replace commercial (pay
 CA> as you go) anti-virus software with software that offers free
 CA> updates and removing even ZoneAlarm to install an updated
 CA> version of ZoneAlarm borders on trashing your system's OS.
 CA>
 CA> Windows + Internet = a disaster waiting to happen, and I see no
 CA> end of it in sight any time soon.
 CA>
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11191805/

Yahoo, AOL plan Fee for By-passing Spam filters
E-mails would be sent Directly to Users' Mailboxes

Updated: 11:56 a.m. ET Feb. 6, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO - Two of the world’s biggest e-mail account providers, Yahoo Inc.
and America Online, plan to introduce a service that would charge senders a fee
to route their e-mail directly to a user’s mailbox without first passing
through junk mail filters, representatives of both companies said Sunday.

The fees, which would range from 1/4 cent to 1 cent per e-mail, are the latest
attempts by the companies to weed out unsolicited ads, commonly called spam,
and identity-theft scams. In exchange for paying, e-mail senders will be
guaranteed their messages won’t be filtered and will bear a seal alerting
recipients they’re legitimate.

Both companies have long filtered e-mail by searching for keywords commonly
contained in spam and fraudulent e-mail. AOL also strips images and Web links
from many messages to prevent the display of pornographic pictures and
malicious Web addresses. Both practices sometimes falsely identify legitimate
messages as junk mail, making life difficult for businesses that rely on
e-mail.

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We were hearing not only from members but also e-mail partners that they wanted
a different way of delivering e-mail that would stand out in the inbox and
would guarantee them delivery,ö said spokesman Nicholas Graham, adding that
AOL, a division of New York-based Time Warner Inc., will start offering the
service in the next two months.

Company spokeswoman Karen Mahon said Sunday Sunnyvale-based Yahoo will begin
offering a similar service in the coming months.

The plan, while it’s optional and would apply to only a fraction of people
sending e-mail, amounts to a reversal in the economics of the Internet because
it would charge message senders rather than those receiving them. The current
model has led to the proliferation of spam and so-called phishing scams because
the people perpetuating them can turn a profit even when only a minority of
recipients respond, analysts have said.

AOL and Yahoo said the program, which is being offered through a company called
Goodmail Systems, will target banks, online retailers and other groups that
send large amounts of e-mail. In exchange for a payment and a pledge to contact
only people who have agreed to receive their messages, the companies would be
ensured their e-mails aren’t diverted to spam folders or have images or Web
addresses filtered out.

The companies also would receive reports showing how many e-mails were received
successfully. The American Red Cross, the New York Times Co. and credit report
company Experian have signed up with Goodmail to use the service, Graham said.
AOL and Yahoo would get a cut of the fees charged by Goodmail.

Companies that don’t want to pay a fee will be able to send e-mail to Yahoo and
AOL members exactly as they have in the past, Graham and Mahon said.

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George Vandervort
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