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  1. Sounds familiar... on Parental Control Software Datamines Kids' Online Conversations · · Score: 1

    You know those e-mail filters where you have to solve a CAPTCHA when you send somebody an e-mail? With some of those, when you fill out the CAPTCHA, you get e-mails a couple of days/weeks later asking you if you want to sign up for their service - so they are trying to sell an anti-spam product by sending spam. Actually I also got some real spam (=randomly picked addresses) advertising these services, too. Same principle ...

  2. Re:Lead on Privacy, Mobile Phones, and Ubiquitous Data Collection · · Score: 1

    Does it boost your signal quality at the same time?

  3. Re:I wonder on The Virus Squad · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, just found out they do have an English version...

  4. Re:I wonder on The Virus Squad · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is AntiVir which provides its software free for personal users, however it's in German only. I've used it on my Win2k system for a few years now. As far as I know it doesn't integrate with any e-mail-clients, but it recognized viruses in attachments as soon as I saved them to disk.