It's got to be more than my imagination. Ever since I restored my "damaged"
address book by uninstalling that KB911567 MS security update and the three
other reportedly-related updates a couple weeks ago, my daily email spam rate
has dropped by 90%. Where I used to get at least 50 - 60 spam messages per day,
plus another 20 - 30 in my Norton Antispam folder, I now get maybe three or four
a day total. I made no other changes in my system other than deleting those
four updates. Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon, or am I somehow
magically blessed?

If there's an explanation here, it could be bottled and sold for a small
fortune.

Bruce

"Bruce Remick" wrote in message
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It's got to be more than my imagination. Ever since I restored my
"damaged" address book by uninstalling that KB911567 MS security update
and the three other reportedly-related updates a couple weeks ago, my
daily email spam rate has dropped by 90%. Where I used to get at least
50 - 60 spam messages per day, plus another 20 - 30 in my Norton Antispam
folder, I now get maybe three or four a day total. I made no other
changes in my system other than deleting those four updates. Has anyone
else experienced this phenomenon, or am I somehow magically blessed?

If there's an explanation here, it could be bottled and sold for a small
fortune.

Bruce

Probably unrelated?
You should only have removed the KB911567 update, the dialogue that warns
about them not working does not appear to have any truth in it?
I suggest that you visit Windows update and install all updates offered
except for KB911567.
See: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#14

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"Bruce Remick" wrote in message
news:Wv_7g.9454$8q.4257@dukeread08...
It's got to be more than my imagination. Ever since I restored my
"damaged" address book by uninstalling that KB911567 MS security
update and the three other reportedly-related updates a couple weeks
ago, my daily email spam rate has dropped by 90%. Where I used to get
at least 50 - 60 spam messages per day, plus another 20 - 30 in my
Norton Antispam folder, I now get maybe three or four a day total. I
made no other changes in my system other than deleting those four
updates. Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon, or am I somehow
magically blessed?


Even spammers need to take a crap, get sick, have accidents, take
vacations, and die. Spam volume always fluctuates. If you want to
check on spam rates, visit:

http://www.commtouch.com//Site/Resea...statistics.asp
http://www.messagelabs.com/Threat_Wa...eat_Statistics

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Norton could be screwing up your message store also. See
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

steve

"Bruce Remick" wrote in message
news:Wv_7g.9454$8q.4257@dukeread08...
It's got to be more than my imagination. Ever since I restored my
"damaged" address book by uninstalling that KB911567 MS security update
and the three other reportedly-related updates a couple weeks ago, my
daily email spam rate has dropped by 90%. Where I used to get at least
50 - 60 spam messages per day, plus another 20 - 30 in my Norton Antispam
folder, I now get maybe three or four a day total. I made no other
changes in my system other than deleting those four updates. Has anyone
else experienced this phenomenon, or am I somehow magically blessed?

If there's an explanation here, it could be bottled and sold for a small
fortune.

Bruce