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letter bomb
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letter bomb

An e-mail or word processing document that contains active code intended to cause damage to the recipient's computer such as erasing the hard disk. See macro virus and mail bomb.



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A Mailbomb urges others to send massive amounts of e-mail to a single system or person, with the intent of crashing a system.
Echelon, the worldwide intelligence network run by the United States and its English-speaking allies, automatically monitors phone calls, faxes, and e-mails by comparing them against a list of suspicious keywords like mailbomb and rebels.
People are very emotional about spam and any marketer who follows the DMA guidelines should begin preparing for a likely torrent of flames, mailbombs and hacking attempts on their web server," adds Duwaik.
 
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