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BigFish · 11-26-2005, 10:13 AM

OK...for months now I have been getting these friggin e-mails....5 or 6 a day, from some...I don't know...."company" selling viagra like products????

I don't know how they got my e-mail addy or how I got on their list but I am getting tired of deleteing these messages marked....addinches.....and....rockhard....crap like that! Its aggravating......how the holy hell can I get them to stop sending these to me!!!?????

spence · 11-26-2005, 10:17 AM

Maybe they're coming from Mrs. Bigfish

-spence

BigFish · 11-26-2005, 10:18 AM

HELP!

spence · 11-26-2005, 10:24 AM

What provider do you use for email? Many have spam blockers built in.

-spence

justplugit · 11-26-2005, 01:27 PM

Larry, get a message to Raven, He is the wizard of wizards on computers.

ProfessorM · 11-26-2005, 02:52 PM

I have been getting the same perscrption drug crap for months now. I just delete it but am getting sick of it too. I must be on a list or something I am also getting stock quotes and mortgage rate info all of which I don't want. Paul

MAC · 11-26-2005, 03:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spence

Maybe they're coming from Mrs. Bigfish

-spence

afterhours · 11-26-2005, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Professor Moriarty

I have been getting the same perscrption drug crap for months now. I just delete it but am getting sick of it too. I must be on a list or something I am also getting stock quotes and mortgage rate info all of which I don't want. Paul

me too!

Raider Ronnie · 11-26-2005, 04:22 PM

Maybe the ex wife f**~ing with you???

Backbeach Jake · 11-26-2005, 05:46 PM

If you have AOL, you can set your e-mail preferences to ignore spam. That's how I got rid of the Vitamin Schwing ads.

Raven · 11-26-2005, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by justplugit

Larry, get a message to Raven, He is the wizard of wizards on computers.

for those kind words of wisdom

hopefully your using outlook express so that this pictorial

is useful...and if not others might find it so...

you either block the sender or you block

the specific word itself

Raven · 11-26-2005, 07:37 PM

hit the mail ...................new rule and create it

Raven · 11-26-2005, 07:39 PM

every program has different options....

Raven · 11-26-2005, 08:02 PM

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 · 11-26-2005, 09:04 PM

Bummer I use Eudora.

SolOmoN · 11-26-2005, 09:41 PM

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 · 11-27-2005, 09:10 AM

STOP LOOKING AT PORN!!!

ThrowingTimber · 11-27-2005, 10:44 AM

calm down chicken little.....

stop looking at porn, and use a spam blocker.

macojoe · 11-27-2005, 01:55 PM

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 · 11-27-2005, 02:24 PM

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

The Dad Fisherman · 11-28-2005, 08:42 AM

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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

zacs · 11-28-2005, 09:00 AM

Here's the deal- On all three of my computers, I have three spam blockers and can't block it all. However, some emails I have don't get any spam at all.

Here are my tips:

*Have an account that you use for signing up for stuff that you don't really care if you see emails from them again. hotmail, gmail, yahoo, or whatever. Once your name is on one list, it is on them all and you are screwed, so funnel the spam to that account.

*If you don't want spam, do not post your email anywhere on the web. These spammers have spiders that crawl the web and look for anything@anything.com, and suck it into a list. Even on message boards like this, if you post your email you are asking for spam.

*Use a not so guessable email adress. I think if it is Jim@comcat.com or suzy1975@ao1.com, you are screwed these guys have programs that just take every name, and number combination at every domain (aol, cox, hotmail, etc...) and just run their computers to spam the hell out of them. computers are powerfull machines, and can generate thousands if not hunrededs of thousands of emails per hour. for example, my last name is long and german. my first initial and last name at cox.net does not get one single piece of spam. however, i have another adress that is my first name and the number 22 @cox.net, and it gets spam all the time.

*Never reply to the bottom of true spam saying you don't want it. If it is from a legit company like Cabellas, or Kodak or something, where they actually identify themselves, then it is ok to click on the bottom.

Those are tips to try and live a spam free life.

_Z_

JohnR · 11-28-2005, 09:56 AM

What Zac & TDF said....

I would add that it is a good practice not to forward those "And send to Ten Freinds or the miracle won't happen" e-mails as they do little more than generate massive address lists.. The Internet is 75% crap, 25% good - and the ratio is just getting worse....

I get several HUNDRED spams a day. My e-mail address is obviously well know thru these sites.

The Dad Fisherman · 11-28-2005, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by zacs

If it is from a legit company like Cabellas, or Kodak or something, where they actually identify themselves, then it is ok to click on the bottom._Z_

I still wouldn't click on the Bottom link....Give me 2 minutes and I can send you an e-mail from Cabelas.com. I can be anybody I want on outgoing e-mail. Also just because the link on the surface says the proper address doesn't mean it actually is going to the proper company.

I definitely agree with the 2nd addy for registering for things on the internet.. Thats what yahoo is for....once you start getting inundated w/ SPAM just throw it away and get a new one

zacs · 11-28-2005, 11:43 AM

OK, I guess that is true. What I mean, if it is obviously & I mean obviously from cabellas or amazon or Southwest airlines, or somewhere you know you have bought somehthing, and the email is cleary from them, with the catalog pictures, and whatnot, and when you click on the reply here to send an unsubscribe email and it is definately sending it to xxx@cabellas.com then send it in. Otherwise, be safe and just delete.

I was thinking about this more, and there must be some hardcore corporate spam blockers that maybe are big $$ or something, because at my old job and at my new job I got/get no spam. Zero. well, at my old job, which I had for 7 years, maybe one a month would slip through. And my email was on the coroporate website.

i don't know, maybe they only target the comercial ISPs, cox.net, aol.com, hotmail.com, adelphia.net, etc...

Gmail also does a nice job of filtering spam.

Raven · 11-28-2005, 11:57 AM

when i message source some of the spam email i recieve, i have noticed that up to 25 or more different names have recieved the same email that all begin
with RA__ (short for raven) ..... dot. ISP so it seems they have got the isp's whole friggan list of customers... and if they are coming from say italy. i ban italy.... hong kong , i ban hong kong....