[SpamCop-List] Re: Pop's Avenue A Experience Re: PINGING: Mike Easter Pls

[Frog Prince]

"Spam Pop"

| > Frog Prince wrote:
| > > Just what is 'Avenue A'?
| >
| I'm not sure what you'd call it.  Do a google (group) on it
| and you'll see what I mean.  It's got a little of everyting,
| it seems, from spam to insurance to media stuff to ... you
| name it.  The way I found it, was, it tried to auto-download
| to me, which my firewall caught.Auto-downloading w/o my
| asking for it is ultra-no-no to me!
|     I see it pop up every once in awhile at places that
| provide the free sites for folks & not sure where else.
| It's well known according to the firewall facts.  I've
| caught it with Sygate, Kerio, and EZarmor, on three
| different machines.
|

I've had the same experiance.  Warning but no download.  Just wondered what
it was.