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Dragon

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How do U filter off these spams about viagra and private part enlargement? When I look at those senders name, it makes me sick those perverts out there.:devil:
 
You mean you don't just click on the link and buy......



Are you talking spam via email, if so just setup a junk folder in your firewall.
 
You mean you don't just click on the link and buy......



Are you talking spam via email, if so just setup a junk folder in your firewall.

Of course not, I not a pervert. I am talking about ISP like Orange is the worst, I get hundreds a day, Google some are trickling thru one or two a day, Hotmail none but advertisers and Yahoo none.
 
You mean you don't just click on the link and buy......



Are you talking spam via email, if so just setup a junk folder in your firewall.

What he is talking about I guessed he got his own mail server that can filter known senders of spam. With ISPs we got no control.
 
Dragon, my quip was only a joke....

As far as the spam filter I run Zonealarm and it automatically shifts all the spam into a junk folder. If it misses one or two I just move them into it and it adapts to catch them in future.

If you're using webmail with no filter available then it's going to be a lot more difficult.
 
As far as the spam filter I run Zonealarm and it automatically shifts all the spam into a junk folder. If it misses one or two I just move them into it and it adapts to catch them in future.

I was rather hoping you had a technique that stopped the spam reaching your mailbox altogether. Yes I too use Zonealarm
 
With my previous provider I was absolutely inundated with these types of posts, plus hundreds of returned e-mails which I had allegedly sent.

The e-mails had the correct second part of my address, but the first part was always random letters. I complained to Freeserve (my provider) and they merely said tough.

I voted with my feet and now no viagra adverts and no spam. If you cannot resolve this issue, then I can recommend my current provider. :)

Regards
John
 
With my previous provider I was absolutely inundated with these types of posts, plus hundreds of returned e-mails which I had allegedly sent.

I voted with my feet and now no viagra adverts and no spam. If you cannot resolve this issue, then I can recommend my current provider. :)

Sounds like your previous mail address was being used to send spam. This happens all too often and deleting the account is the only solution.

I have found that changing ISP improves the situation but only for a limited time, that is to say, until your new email address gets onto a spamming list.
 
Depends on what you are using to read your emails. With services like Orange you have infinite email addresses, e.g. [email protected] where anything can be emailname and still arrive.

A lot of spam takes advantage of this and instead of [email protected] sends spam to [email protected] (if the spam is coming to your REAL email address that is a different matter - for one thing try not to publish your email address on the Internet).

To filter out emails in something like Outlook Express you could make two accounts - one for the email address(es) you want to accept mail to and one for everything else. Then set Outlook Express to download any emails waiting for your real address(es).

You can then run Outlook Express a second time to download all the other mail and either delete it automatically or scan though it quickly in case someone has tried to legitimately contact you but mistyped the address.

As John says there are quite a few Internet Service Providers that will filter for you so most of the rubbish has gone - or you can buy email filtering software (- which is deceptively simple to set up) but there is currently no way to stop spammers attempting to send you their rubbish.
 
if you get a dodgy e-mail you can right click it and send it to junk mail then just delete as you need ...i have Norton 2008 on both our laptops and it stops spam after i have put the e-mail in the spam folder ......£37.00 for a years sub...yes i know it uses a lot internal power for the PC to use it, but no viruses that will slow it or stop it all together or spyware.... so it's the lesser or the two evils
 
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As John says there are quite a few Internet Service Providers that will filter for you so most of the rubbish has gone - or you can buy email filtering software (- which is deceptively simple to set up) but there is currently no way to stop spammers attempting to send you their rubbish.
This might not be the most convienant option, but I was pulling my hair out trying to resolve it and got nowhere.

All the suggestions being put forward I tried and I changed providers in 2005 and since then no Spam, no viagra offers and no junk mail.

Regards
John
 
I use BT and am able to check my mail through BTYahoo. It puts the spam into a bulk folder, which you can check for legitimate mails, and also check your inbox for spam. You can flag any spam mail in your inbox as spam and it recognises it in the future. easy enough then to empty the bulk and trash folders. Then I just download the remaining known safe mail using Outlook Express. That way I don't get any spam on the PC as it's all done online before downloading.
 
Outlook 2003 onwards, use the junk mail filter, and block all senders who you have not sent to, and have not explicitly allowed. Remember to check through your junk mail folder once a day. All that will get delivered to your inbox is "real" email. And if you have outlook, this is free.
 
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Outlook 2003 onwards, use the junk mail filter, and block all senders who you have not sent to, and have not explicitly allowed. Remember to check trough your junk mail folder once a day. All that will get delivered to your inbox is "real" email. And if you have outlook, this is free.
;) I have no idea of how many spurious posts per day the author is getting but in my case it was well in excess of 150, and there is no way you could use a junk mail filter because as some clever folks on this thread have already pointed out, each addres is different. [email protected] compared to [email protected] and the last part being our correct email address, so you could not block joe.bloggs.co.uk. Reading, or vetting every single post before opening them really defeats the object 150 plus posts is way too many to read and eventually I only found one successful option.

John
 
The Junk Filter in Outlook (2003 - onwards) only allows senders who are known to you, that you have authorised, to place messages in the inbox, therefore is a very effective solution to this problem - Everything that you do no specify as spam is treated as such, and whilst this entails some manual effort at the begining, over a period of time, it builds up an (exportable) list of known good addresses.....


I've had the same email address for 8 years, which is used on about 10 different forums, my website, business cards, etc. I get about 200+ spam messages per day, in additionto maybe 20-30 real messages, of which half are filtered by my mail server, the rest by outlook. - I simply check the Junk mail folder at the begining and end of each day to ensure that I've not missed anything imprtant ( like a new customer).....
 
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The Junk Filter in Outlook (2003 - onwards) only allows senders who are known to you, that you have authorised, to place messages in the inbox, therefore is a very effective solution to this problem - Everything that you do no specify as spam is treated as such, and whilst this entails some manual effort at the begining, over a period of time, it builds up an (exportable) list of known good addresses.....


I've had the same email address for 8 years, which is used on about 10 different forums, my website, business cards, etc. I get about 200+ spam messages per day, in additionto maybe 20-30 real messages, of which half are filtered by my mail server, the rest by outlook. - I simply check the Junk mail folder at the begining and end of each day to ensure that I've not missed anything imprtant ( like a new customer).....
I'm sorry for being a bit slow and for hogging this thread but if your e-mail address is @joe.bloggs.co.uk then surely you cannot block this address?

If you block [email protected] then it only blocks that one address? In numerous situations and not just my own experience, we gets posts from random aabbc, or [email protected] and NO two addresses are the same

I cannot see the point in going to a location to read these spam mails and then delete them!! That defeats the object? especially as some providers simply block them. I personally have excellent anti everything software but posts with my address were always getting through and yes I tried every single suggestion that the experts on this forum suggested. If you have not been a victim of this type of attack, then I wonder if it is a) Your provider blocks them, or b) Your lucky.

I have used the latest version of Outlook Express and trust me, it made no difference, neither did spamware, or Firewalls :mad: :mad: but the instant I changed providers; voilà problem solved. My e-mail address stayed exactly the same, but free-serve was replaced by eclipse, so it was not having an easy address to copy!

Sorry for being thick

Regards
John
 
John - why where you collecting e-mail from addresses you weren't interested in, rather than simply collecting from [email protected] (assumingI understand you right).
 
I have used the latest version of Outlook Express and trust me, it made no difference,

You want to move away from Outlook express and use Outlook instead. It offers more control, more intelligent junk email filters and also provides a single file for your entire mailbox to backup instead of a whole plethora of ones in OE.

All things said and done, don't register for anything using your real email address, use a disposable hotmail or gmail one or something. This is by far the most effective way of reducing or preventing spam. The only reason why your new address is spam free right now John is because you haven't yet given it away to someone that has sold it on to spammers. Use it only for people you know and it should stay like that.

No spam blocker is perfect. It'll either miss some spam, or trap legitimate email, that's why you have to glance through your spam folder now and again just to be sure that you've not blocked anything incorrectly. The Outlook advice above is good.
 

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