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=**Computer Spam **=

A spam is a term used to describe Unsolicited Commercial Email or Unsolicited Bulk Email.
 * What is a spam? **

It's been said that the term spam originated from an old Monty Python sketch that took place in a  restaurant where everything on the menu came with spam (the food product). Spam, spam,  spam, spam, was repeated over and over in the sketch and someone used it to coin the meaning  of an unsolicited commercial post on Usenet (electronic bulletin boards, or better known as  newsgroups) in the early 1990's and it stuck. One of the first spammers was Dave Rhodes, a college student who wanted to make a little extra  cash with little extra effort. He sent the artery clogging fat cells in motion when he cross-posted a  pyramid scheme on Usenet. It was later turned into email and file uploads to Bulletin Boards with  the Header "MAKE MONEY FAST". How well Dave did with his spamming adventure is unknown.  Internet lore has him in prison for wire fraud but that cannot be proven and was most likely  created by those who had to clean up his mess on the newsgroups. Vengeance is mine, sayeth  the newsgroup administrator · Chain letters. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> · Pyramid schemes (including Multilevel Marketing, or MLM). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> · Other "Get Rich Quick" or "Make Money Fast" (MMF) schemes. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> · Offers of phone sex lines and ads for pornographic web sites. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> · Offers of software for collecting e-mail addresses and sending UCE. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> · Offers of bulk e-mailing services for sending UCE. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> · Stock offerings for unknown start-up corporations. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> · Quack health products and remedies. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> · Illegally pirated software. =<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">Computer Viruses =
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The History of Spam **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Adventures of the first Spammer **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The predominant subjects of spam email are the following: **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">﻿ **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What is a computer Virus? **
===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Computer virus programs are placed into a commonly used program so that program will run the attached virus program as it boots, therefore, it is said that the virus "infects" the executable file or program. Executable files include Macintosh "system files" [such as system extensions, INITs and control panels] and application programs [such as word processing programs and spreadsheet programs.] Viruses work the same ways in Windows or DOS machines by infecting zip or exe files. ===


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How Viruses spread **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Viruses begin to work and spread when you start up the program or application of which the virus is present. For example, a word processing program that contains a virus will place the virus in memory every time the word processing program is run. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Once in memory, one of a number of things can happen. The virus may be programmed to attach to other applications, disks or folders. It may infect a network if given the opportunity. [|More information on computer spam]