Junk e-mail.

[telboy]

Hi All,
I am receiving unacceptable amounts of c**p.
It's 'sorted' by Zone Alarm but it's not really & don't want any of it anyway, the Zone Alarm filter is not doing the biz.

O.K., over to you.

[telboy]

[Admin aka Dan]

The admin address here recieves over 200 a day  :o

And some of the things in the subjects, well I'm not sure they are possible ;D

Don't think there is a solution to it, apart from paying someone lots of money to filter it.  I have used all sorts on the server to deal with it, but what tends to happen is a genuine email gets filtered, and I miss something important (like a competiton entry  :-[)

Cheers

Dan

[beejay]

According to an article in The Guardian today it is reckoned that 91per cent of e mails are now spam  :o

[telboy]

Thank you to both of you, my inbox is up to 90/day. A lot of filth.
Could change the e-mail address i suppose , but the agro?

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

I never get any Spam. Funny thing, I could actually do with a dose of Viagra, fake or not, or some of the other enhancements they (apparently) offer. Can't you try blocking them before they reach your computer, via the on-line filter options of your e-mail provider

[saddad]

I've always been very lucky not receiving any spam for over five years.. but am now getting 5-6 hits a day from a share scam.. always comes from different sources as Techie son has been into the depths and done some blocking of senders!
>:(

[Spruance]

At work we are in the same boat as Dan with around 200 spam messages a day. Granted most of these are diverted into a junk mail box, but it still means giving it the once over to make sure that there is nothing in there that shouldn't be.

In total contrast at home I receive no spam whatsoever. Nothing to do with ZoneAlarms though, so it must be down to my ISP Pipex.

What I do strive to do with my main - paid for - email address is not to give it out to anyone that I cannot trust. I have a number of webmail addresses for this purpose, which in turn do receive varying degrees of spam as a result.

On the other hand having been the 'proud owner' of a Googlemail account since 19th August I can honestly say that I have had no spam on that either, so that's a thumbs up for Google.

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

You do need to be careful with your email address(es). I had a mail from a friend forwarded from a friend of his saying - if you have this file on your system then your mail is compromised, a virus will have been sent to all your Contacts etc. A hoax. So my friend dutifully mails all his contacts including me. So i'm in posession of his entire Address book (about 140 people), and the Address book of his friend (another30). Just because some idiot has sent out a hoax virus email, I now have the bona-fide addresses of nearly 200 complete strangers

[manicscousers]

we were in image shack last night and got a particularly nasty pop up , we have all sorts of protection so I don't know where it came from ?

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln (attributed)
16th president of US (1809 - 1865).

"Boy, did I make a fool out of Lincoln"- George W Bush

43rd President of the United States (2001 - Armageddon)

[Spruance]

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln (attributed)
16th president of US (1809 - 1865).

"Boy, did I make a fool out of Lincoln"- George W Bush

43rd President of the United States (2001 - Armageddon)

Yes that's a little less relevant on here, but far more relevant on the board that I am an admin on. I just like the quotation though so I've tagged it on to my A4A ID too. ;) (Sorry for going off-topic).

[Curryandchips]

On the other hand having been the 'proud owner' of a Googlemail account since 19th August I can honestly say that I have had no spam on that either, so that's a thumbs up for Google.

I find the same - google is spam free (currently!)

[Larkshall]

If your email address is on a large organisation like hotmail, bt, tiscali, pipex etc., it makes an easy target for the spammers. With your own domain you tend to avoid a lot of spam but if the domain is "open" for any to post to and is advertised, you will still get it. I have several email boxes on two domains, one is a branch of a national organisation the other is my own personal domain. I get spam on both. An organisation which is only advertised on my own domain, does not get spam. My wife has a mail box on my domain and gets no spam.

[floraldi]

I get hardly any junk mail in my ISP inbox but their service includes the
McAfee software for spam and I also use AVG which is excellent (they do a free service).  But, the inbox I have with Yahoo which I use for this site is  always full of junk whenever I check it. When I used to use forums on the general usenet I had a ficticious email address which is handy to have (bigfoot is the name if you want to try that).

[lorna]

I am fortunate, I very seldom get any junk mail. I have mcfee and superanti spyware. The last two weeks I have had several for Viagra!! All from different addresses.

[tim]

We get some 50 throughtout the day - fake Rolexes, slimming & - yes!!

No point in 'binning' it - it's still got to be sorted at some time, so I do it as soon as it comes in.

[telboy]

Thanks for your replies.
The 'junk' is auto sorted, but i have to check in case something of importance is missed.
A change of e-mail address is an answer.

[funplants]

You could always go for the approach that you use the filters in your email client. In order to do this you can make your filter move everything to trash...UNLESS the email address exists in your address book.

I'm even more brutal, in that I give everyone a different email address (I own a few domains), so mum will send me an email from 'mum@mydomain.com', and spamsite, will be given 'spamsite@mydomain.com' etc That way, I can block/accept emails as I choose. Result - All spam filtered perfectly:)