Change of mailer

[Martin.Hepworth]

Wayne

Thunderbird is the Mozilla equivalent of Outlook Express...

Firefox is the Mozilla equiv of IE...

And I wouldn't "secure" I'd say less risky..

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Wayne
> Sent: 22 January 2007 17:07
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Change of mailer
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> At 16:59 22/01/2007, you wrote:
>
> Must be Thunderbird is flavor of the month :-) Only asked as I thought
> there may be a security problem with it being targeted by bots as we
> recommend it as a secure IE replacement.
>
> - Wayne -
>
>
> >Most spammer "clients" are faked.
> >
> >Wayne wrote:
> >>I have noticed that spammers and virus pushers seem to have deserted
> >>Internet Explorer in favor of Thunderbird i.e.
> >>Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207)
> >>Any significance in this apart from its free.
> >>I surveyed 100 reports over the weekend and 95 of them used this
> >>client.
> >>- Wayne -
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