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Did anyone else get a suspicious email

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by jamesrl

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Through peer mail?

Subject: Thank You.
Body: I have viewed your post and it was very helpful.

My apologies if this offends the person sending. There was no reference to either a specific post or the name of the person emailing to me.

If this was someone just jotting off a quick note and forgetting to sign, my apologies. But I was also thinking it was someone trying to get my email address if I replied to ask what it was about.

Anyone else get something like this?

James

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by tig2

But then, my posts aren't generally very helpful.

That is an odd email.

by charliespencer

Was the subject "You have mail from a TechRepublic member"? The return address might give some clue, but I wouldn't respond to it if you aren't clear on the subject.

by jamesrl

The return email address was hotmail, but it was sent through TR peermail (cnet relay).

It could be a simple thank you. But with nothing else to go on? My first impulse was to reply and ask what post they were referring to, I'm always willing to help. But then given the vagueness of the email, I wondered about address farming.

James

by dr dij

I had been making posts suggesting training for Indian programmers and never got a thank you.

One person did, said was useful
but they did this in the discussion /question.

by danlm

I received an email from someone on a religious thread I was involved in, which I was nice by the way. Asking to help save my soul.
That was enough for me, my profile is closed.

[i]Edited to add: [/i] I see that discussion is still going on by the way which triggered that email.

Dan

by charliespencer

Last winter when all the "Irish" potty-mouthed wannabes were joining. One of them thought he'd get cute with me, but since I never replied to him directly, only through the Discussions, he soon got bored and quit.

by danlm

But at least this way, I know what I will be getting in advance.

Chuckle, I know my political position on alot of things tick people off. Most of the people I respect, even if we do disagree. And I would be more then happy to give them my email if they asked. It's just the idiot clan that I don't have time for, and I'm not even going to give them a chance.

Dan

by jamesrl

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=220632&messageID=2222063

But probably not this one:
https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=220632&messageID=2222046

Maybe this thread:

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=221356

James

by ontheropes

BTW- I was wondering, do you know of a program that could reveal the admin password faster than LC5 from the %systemroot%\windows\repair\sam file?

:D

I didn't get no steenking email either.

by jamesrl

Maybe I do.....

Once upon a time we used to download the domain password file to a pc every month, and then run a cracking program against it. We would time the length of time it would take to reveal X% of passwords, and benchmark that as a measure of how effective our password security rules were.

Needless to say the first few times we had some dropped jaws, but after an awareness campaign and some ability to enforce stricter rules, the numbers began to dramatically improve.

James

by tig2

You are always welcome to PM me. I promise to never use your email addy for evil, only good.

Besides, I have built my wildly (in)famous reputation on not giving a rip about the state of your soul.

And I managed to delete your email addy from my book. I am still not sure how that happened. Probably a synchronization error with my PDA. The computer assumes that the PDA is God so will dump whatever it knows in favour of what the PDA knows.

ARRRGGGHHHH!

by danlm

gmail is my friend

lol, remember my origional alias.

There ya go.

Dan

by ontheropes

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/privacy/password_checker.mspx

I thought I was using strong passwords, not even close. It was a real eyeopener.

I check my passwords at that link now. I don't know how well they'd stand up to a determined hacker but at least I'm not leaving the key in the door.

by hal 9000

The only Peer Mails that I've got recently have been in relation to a direct question that has been asked and the person asking the question needs more detail.

Then a Thank You for providing the required answer. :D

Col

by jamesrl

...that if no one else got one like this, the email was an innocent thank you, and that I am paranoid.

Happy to be thanked, just not a bad idea to know what for....

James

by beth blakely

Send me the peer mail (beth.blakely at techrepublic dot com ) and I'll figure out who it's from and what it relates to, if possible.

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