Help! Help! Help!

[Raven]

and view a picture especially anything classified as adult

they often include a special single pixel that is auto formatted to send

back your info....namely your email addy ...or from a cookie

stored on your hard drive... and it pays to delete them.

[ProfessorM]

Bummer I use Eudora.

[SolOmoN]

Norton internet security has a spam blocker that "trains" itself to your specific email account. once configured It will pick up 99% of all erronious email addy's and submit them to a "anti spam folder " in which you can sort through and dispose of at you discretion.

Most of those spam attachments come by way of ...shall we say NSFW type sites..... dump your cookies and clear your history and temp file folders regulary, run a anti spiware program once a week and keep your virus definitions up to date and that will help to keep annoyances like this to a minimum.

antispiware :http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

this has been a public service annoucement
The Management.


sol...

[redneck24]

STOP LOOKING AT PORN!!!

[ThrowingTimber]

calm down chicken little.....

stop looking at porn, and use a spam blocker.

[macojoe]

I use yahoo for email, I spam the stuff like that. also if you look way to the bottom of some of them email there will be a place that you can send them a email to take you off the mailing list.
Works for me!

[BigFish]

Was waiting for that Daryl.....no porn here...all fishing websites!

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by macojoe

also if you look way to the bottom of some of them email there will be a place that you can send them a email to take you off the mailing list.

Thats one thing you don't want to do. They use that link to confirm that they are sending to an active e-mail address. Just delete them never reply to them.

Get a good suite like McAfee or Nortons that does SPAM Filtering and make sure you keep you SPAM definitions up to date. They need to be updated just like your anti-virus does.

Blocking them doesn't always work well because they change their domains constantly and name them very randomly (i.e. soandso@yrhjdo.com) so if you block that domain they just make up another one. And sometimes they use a very generic domain name with a very random user (i.e. ioughoi@aol.com) so you can't block mail from aol.com because that is probably 1/2 your friends and if you block that specific address they just pick another random name to send it from.

In all honesty 5-6 a day is nothing, we get an average of 25-30 per day per user at my company with some people getting over 50. I can catch probably 80% to 90% of it and have it blocked but some still gets through. Right now I have 204 SPAM messages in my junk mail folder from the long weekend.

Good luck and if you find a fool proof method please share the info....Because SPAM drives me friggin crazy