Spam and Viruses

This is off the subject of CF but maybe someone has a solution. I get TONS of spam and viruses in my mailbox on a daily basis...so much that I am thinking of changing my email address. Is there ANY way to stop this? Do people target specific email addresses to send viruses to? (Don't worry, it not this email address)

Monique Boea wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- Doesn't stop spam/viruses, but certainly helps with the built in junk controls.  http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird And of course you should always have antivirus software installed on your computer that catches viruses attached to emails etc. Telling your friends that they need to install antivirus software always helps too... Stephen

Doesn't sound as if you have control of a mail server, so you have to go client-side. http://keir.net/k9.html You can look at Cloudmark's SpamNet.  Costs $4 monthly. HtH, -------------------------------------------- Matt Robertson       matt@mysecretbase.com MSB Designs, Inc.  http://mysecretbase.com --------------------------------------------

At 12:52 PM 5/18/2004, Monique Boea wrote: >I get TONS of spam and viruses in my mailbox on a daily basis...so much that >I am thinking of changing my email address. I'm using SpamPal (www.spampal.com) and it works great.  I'm down to one or two pieces of spam per day in my Inbox, and maybe one false positive every two or three days (this is due to the Bayesian filter plugin still learning my email.) T

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I do several things.  None of them are foolproof, but they work quite well together; I see perhaps 5 pieces of spam per week. First, I have 3 email addresses (more or less).  I have a personal email address, which I only give to close friends and relatives.  Second, I have a Yahoo mail account, which I use for other people.  Finally, I have a Hotmail account that I give to people that I know are going to spam me. Next, my primary email address has "_nospam" in it; i.e., bob_nospam@wherever.com  Address harvesters (some of them, at least) will delete the "_nospam" part, which gets sent to a holding account, "bob" Next, I use spam-filtering and antivirus software.  For spam-filtering, I swear by CloudMark SpamNet, it does a great job.  It's Windows/Outlook specific, though I think they came out with a version for OE.  For antivirus, I use Norton AntiVirus with nightly virus definition update checks and real-time scanning in conjunction with full scans every night. Finally, my ISP has antispam and antivirus controls, and I set them to send suspected spam to a holding account which I check about once a week. It really is a pity that we have to go through these hoops just to avoid the "P--is too small?" emails. Pete Monique Boea wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

One of the reasons you are being spammed is the way the list broadcasts emails FULLY on the web....try searching for someones in Google and you will see that you get loads of houseoffusion results with full emails to be hived off ready for spamming... No real way to stop them bar hunting down the retards who spend time setting them up etc.....you could get a  spam  catching engine to sit in front of your mail server (if on exchange etc) which will reduce it dramatically....as I used to get around 200-300 per day, now you wil be lucky if I get 10 a week...    _____ Sent: 18 May 2004 16:53 To: CF-Talk Subject: Spam and Viruses This is off the subject of CF but maybe someone has a solution. I get TONS of spam and viruses in my mailbox on a daily basis...so much that I am thinking of changing my email address. Is there ANY way to stop this? Do people target specific email addresses to send viruses to? (Don't worry, it not this email address)    _____  

No I don't mean on this email address...I mean another one... Nothing to do with this email list [mailto:Neil.Robertson-Ravo@csd.reedexpo.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 11:56 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Spam and Viruses One of the reasons you are being spammed is the way the list broadcasts emails FULLY on the web....try searching for someones in Google and you will see that you get loads of houseoffusion results with full emails to be hived off ready for spamming... No real way to stop them bar hunting down the retards who spend time setting them up etc.....you could get a  spam  catching engine to sit in front of your mail server (if on exchange etc) which will reduce it dramatically....as I used to get around 200-300 per day, now you wil be lucky if I get 10 a week...    _____ Sent: 18 May 2004 16:53 To: CF-Talk Subject: Spam and Viruses This is off the subject of CF but maybe someone has a solution. I get TONS of spam and viruses in my mailbox on a daily basis...so much that I am thinking of changing my email address. Is there ANY way to stop this? Do people target specific email addresses to send viruses to? (Don't worry, it not this email address)    _____   _____  

At 02:08 PM 5/18/2004, Monique Boea wrote: >One of the reasons you are being spammed is the way the list broadcasts >emails FULLY on the web....try searching for someones in Google and you will >see that you get loads of houseoffusion results with full emails to be hived >off ready for spamming... I just tried that - monique.boea@spunlogic.com comes up with no hits on Google.  Nor does Neil.Robertson-Ravo@csd.reedexpo.com.  I don't think she's getting spam that way. T

At 02:25 PM 5/18/2004, Thane Sherrington wrote: >I just tried that - monique.boea@spunlogic.com comes up with no hits on >Google.  Nor does Neil.Robertson-Ravo@csd.reedexpo.com.  I don't think >she's getting spam that way. I take it back - Neil.Robertson-Ravo@csd.reedexpo.com comes up with a lot of hits.  So maybe some spam is coming through that way. T

the address is mboea@aawit.net At 02:25 PM 5/18/2004, Thane Sherrington wrote: >I just tried that - monique.boea@spunlogic.com comes up with no hits on >Google.  Nor does Neil.Robertson-Ravo@csd.reedexpo.com.  I don't think >she's getting spam that way. I take it back - Neil.Robertson-Ravo@csd.reedexpo.com comes up with a lot of hits.  So maybe some spam is coming through that way. T   _____  

>>  I get TONS of spam and viruses in my mailbox on a daily basis...so much that >>   I am thinking of changing my email address. If you're using Outlook, SpamBeyes is working well for me after training it up http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/ -- dc