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Community Newsletter: Q&A: What can I do to stop spam?
- 10/11/07 12:57 PM
Spam
by leon stewart - 10/8/07 9:34 AM In reply to: Dealing with SPAM... by Wolfie2k5I don't know why Post not offering solutions weren't deleted, since that was the question. If you don't have an answer, why Post. Most readers aren't interested in knowing how it works, they want to find a way to keep from getting it.
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HUH????????????
by RMANTHEY56 - 10/8/07 10:25 AM In reply to: Spam by leon stewartWith all due respect, if someone does not know how something works, how are they supposed to learn how to prevent it? How can you justify saying that people don't want to know how SPAM works, they just want to know how to stop it? How does one accomplish the latter without having at least a basic understanding of the former?
Selling your email address - It's not all random
by carolina1 - 10/12/07 6:37 AM In reply to: Dealing with SPAM... by Wolfie2k5Your email address is sold (they call it sharing) by your credit card companies, hotels, car rental etc....
Who knows, maybe this site does. I need to read the policy.
Your email address, your personal information including physical address, phone number, signature, name is all up for grabs.
Your email address is on a information chain that is uncontrolled, so then all we need to do is tie in our "encrypted" fingerprint identification file and we have your full identity.
There should be a law stopping someone from sharing/selling our personal information without our written permission. Currently you give your permission because we don't read the privacy policies and the default of using the service is you "accept".
I just got an email from Country Inn & Suites thattold me how they were protecting my privacy by only sharing me information with other companies that protect my privacy.
HUH? Doesn't protecting my privacy mean that I make that decision?
Re-installing everything
by WAArnold - 10/14/07 10:24 AM In reply to: Dealing with SPAM... by Wolfie2k5Hamoodyjamal, your statement that he/she will have to reinstall everything isn't totally true. There is a couple or so programs that could be used to transfer everything to the new drive making it bootable & operational upon completion. Ghost & Acronis being a couple.
How to stop spam
by gbanerjee_1 - 12/20/07 1:48 PM In reply to: Dealing with SPAM... by Wolfie2k5Doesnot answer the question.
You are posting a reply to: Dealing with SPAM...Wolfie2k5
by Galactic Cannibal - 12/21/07 8:37 AM In reply to: Dealing with SPAM... by Wolfie2k5Hey Dude,
You ranted on and on ,about the problems Spam creates. But the question was, how does one stop this junk spam getting to your computer.
I am at a lost to know how your rant was selected, as it did not answer the question in any shape or form.
Sincerely
GC
Spam
by williamkn - 9/29/07 1:58 AM In reply to: What can I do to stop spam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Lucky you, after a recent week away I came back to over 2400 messages on 2 accounts, at least 90% "spam". After trying other programmes I now use Mailwasher and find it very effective. I check incoming stuff several times a day, first thing in the morning I find around 100 messages. Mailwasher clearly shows known spam, friendly messages from my address book and other stuff shown as "not to me". It is very quick to check the not to me stuff and either delete or add to friends list. It takes less than a minute to go through the list and then click the process mail button and my inbox opens and only shows the stuff I need, everything else is deleted and never reaches my inbox.
MailWasher Pro
by rkzander - 10/5/07 8:39 PM In reply to: Spam by williamknI use MailWasher Pro and it works very well. You can adjust your Filters to avoid spam. The instructions are easy to follow. I have a web site and get a lot of spam from all over the world. But with MailWasher Pro, it does not find its way into my Outlook Express inbox. I do sometimes check those "hidden emails" when I know that I will be receiving email from someone that I never received before, or just in case something gets tagged as spam by accident. You can choose to hide or show the email shown as spam. You can also use the Spam Tools to further adjust how you choose to handle spam. I also installed it on my husband's new laptop and he is learning to use it as well. It is a good defense against spam.
Mailwasher Pro
by mkruzel5 - 10/6/07 7:39 AM In reply to: MailWasher Pro by rkzanderI also use Mailwasher and its an excellent program. http://www.firetrust.com/
Solutions that work and ones that don't.
by ralphclark - 9/29/07 1:59 AM In reply to: What can I do to stop spam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Your spam profile sounds exactly like mine. I have managed to get mine under control with a clever spam filter.
Simple address-blacklisting solutions don't work because professional spammers generate their "sent from" address more or less at random and don't tend to use the same address twice. Sometimes they will even use yours! You need something that will identify spam based on their content. One well known example is Spam Assassin which applies quite sophisticated algorithms, but even this will still let through a lot of spam, perhaps even half of it, because the spammers are continually changing their methods to stay one step ahead. So free solutions like the one built into Outlook are very ineffective. The ones that come bundled with "internet security" packages like Symantec's NIS or Panda Internet Security are hardly any better.
There is another type of filter that can consistently identify between 90%-99% of all spam; it combines these approaches together with a hands-on proactive element, but you'll only find it available as a managed service with a monthly or yearly subscription cost. Most of these solutions are aimed at companies and they can be fairly expensive but the one I use has a "retail" product for home users - "Cloudmark Desktop" - which is only $40 per year, i.e. just over $3 per month. It relies on its community of users to help identify spam that didn't get caught: if you mark an unfiltered message as spam this gets fed back to their systems. So they stay ahead of the game and there is very little that will get through. It's sort of like a "neighbourhood watch" for fighting spammers. I'm very happy with its performance and also the value for money. They do a free trial if you want to try it out.
Sudden appearance of spam
by jlampert - 9/29/07 2:19 AM In reply to: What can I do to stop spam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
One thing NOT to do is open them up and unsubscribe, that will merely confirm that your address is a valid one and can then be sold to other spammers. they then try to filter out the unwanteds.
e-mail and Spam
by KA17JOHN - 9/29/07 2:39 AM In reply to: What can I do to stop spam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Whatever you do don't open any. I get exactly the same
products plus agreeing to lend vast sums of money.
If you have Norton you can go to e-mail in the menu and add any offensive word and Norton will block the mail ever reaching your box.
It also depends on your browser. I am with Yahoo and there is a note, tick all, then delete and this covers however many are in the Bulk folder. They are very good at streaming the spam and I can delete the lot without worrying I have deleted an important message.
I read an article recently that all this rubbish is going to destroy e-mailing and it is such a shame.
Revenge of the Spam Attack
by Dimetri99 - 9/29/07 3:09 AM In reply to: What can I do to stop spam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I too have been in the situation where large quantities of spam have diminished my internet experience.
As to how you got on these email list, it could have anything from spyware on a friends computer that downloaded their address book to one of those websites where you have to register to receive acess to further information or downloads of music, imacons, etc. About all you can do to reduce the possibility of this happening in the future is to change your email address and to not register on any websites that are of a suspecious nature.
One additional point that should be made is if someone else has access to your computer, they may be the one who is causing the spam by their internet activity. If you have no way of knowing what goes on in your abscense, password protect it.
Lists
by HWBama - 9/29/07 3:19 AM In reply to: What can I do to stop spam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
the best way that I have found to get rid of a lot of these unwanted emails is to check them and then click on spam. If your spam settings are set and working, you shouldnt recieve these notfications any furhter.
Let me know if this has been any help
hwbama
Spam and More Spam
by soundmindone - 10/5/07 9:17 PM In reply to: Lists by HWBamaI think the key trick is knowing what spammers like using in "your" inbox
Like the Word "Free", "Hi I seen you online", "I have a picture and want to know what you think" or " I saw your Profile" they love using keynotes or key loggers and tags. Also know what you likes or interest thanks to consumer ad-aware they do sell you out to other company. That is how they make money. That is why I do not use AOL they seem to be better now but way back I tell you everything you types in they was sending you stuff that resembled to what you typed in.
also you need to call your provider to put a block or lock down on your email from people using your email account name. they do have a security program that can do that. I had someone using my email account for a while and didn't know about it until it came back too me... they had a way of just using the name itself but didn't have my 16+ password
speaking of Password use a very good 16+ Letter number and if able some symbol Example: 98^mikey&like*it or make something that you can't forget some will not allow you use Caps or symbol letters they would be more secured if they did
Some Email accounts has a filter in preferences like Outlook Yahoo and Gmail(Body, Tags, Subject Bar, Email Account Bar) post in a one word that is mostly common like: ]
Free, Porn, Sex, Women, Men, Girl, Boy, Pharmacy, Cheap, etc....
that you can automatically move certain emails go to certain folder and make them a special folder too. some email will delete themself if they see that there going into you bulk or Spam so be clever name the folder "Special" you alway want to make it go your "Special" spam or bulk first after glancing at the bulk or spam folder. Approve only ones you know.Then send it to inbox after been screen that will help you out on majority of the spammers always after a while when you know them they been in your e-mail then make them in your address book as a friends,client, work, or something that natural
You do need an Antivirus and a Firewall Program only one would be fine.... but you spyware or spam or ad aware defeating program
If you have a personal computer you able to download as any spyware program but do not run all of them at once and never run them on startup they can be a memory hog too along with windows.
Make sure you getting these programs form the real sites. Please there are alot of sites that said they are for real and they are the worst host:::
If you are running Internet Explorer
My favorite is Yahoo! with Spyware search and Google toolbar they cut most of the Pop-ups
(Ad-aware) and (Spybot Search and Destroy) but scan all three weekly and do not trust any program to run automatically alway run manually too on your window anti-virus and Firewall update
I run Firefox and still use Google and Yahoo! Toolbars
you do not need any other Toolbars all others are not good search engines anyway. and some toolbars are "spyware"!!!
Spam I hate them too but I have clean most of them where I get now 23 a week not bad for an rocky of 3 years on computer and I was running 300 spam a week I still have my past email too
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