Ogopogo wrote: personally I can't wait until the internet is cleaned up a bit.. The freedom is great
but the bastards out there trying to get into your mind or puter equipment is not ethical.
if you block popups - then I guess you won't get a warning. Lets wait and see
Cleaning it up is a good thing, but it will take many years because as time passes more people get computers and a small percentage are the greedy and stupid...ie: spammers being a classic example, and each day another decides to be a spammer.
Spammers believe they are the only one doing it, they don't understand the math... one spammer sending a message is one message, ten thousand spammers sending one message is ten thousand pieces of spam targeted to one person.
I run my own mail server, and over the three day long weekend, 287 pieces of spam were blocked thus far... all of which came from about 30 individual machines... some mail server software doesn't allow the filtering of spam, so these spammers flooded many with their Viagra or cheap watch ads.
There is robot software used by spammers that reads webpages, including this site and PSR looking for e-mail addresses to spam.... never put your address in a message etc.. use the word AT for the @ sign if you need to put an address in the content.
Spammers being only one issue... there are many more as the networks have become a toilet of virus traffic. Anyone that reads their router logs will see the dozens of connections per hour that are attempted to pass on virus or take control of a machine... which is why I wrote up on the need to use a NAT router to block all this traffic.