[epub] Re: Virus problems - how they affect the publisher

["Lisa Micklin" <lisa@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>but I don't know how even that can prevent someone using one of my
>email addresses (how can they do that in the first place) sending
>outgoing mail.

Hi Janie, Ross, and All-

Chances are these email are not being sent through your email client
(eudora, outlook, etc.)on your local computer.

More than likely your email address was harvested by a robot, viral or
otherwise, and the messages are being sent via a server other than your
outgoing mail server.

No virus protection is going to prevent this unfortunately. 

The only thing to do, is ride it out and let it pass.  It will. 

Every time you post your email address on a forum, discussion list, or
even on your own website, it becomes robot bait, it can be harvested,
and in a worse case scenario, email can be sent using your address as
the "from" address.

This is why you are seeing more and more contact forms, vs. emails on
websites, and now that forms can be robotted, you will see more and more
of those little codes you need to type in to a form with a word or a
string of characters. A robot cannot read & reproduce that code. 

Sorry to be the bringer of bad news.... hang tight.... it really will
pass.

Best,
Lisa Micklin
http://ezezine.com


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