View Full Version : Bad Spam troubles.
S1lent
April 26th, 2004, 04:47 PM
Lately, my SpamBlocker has been picking up a lot of pornography e-mails. Is there anyways I can make them stop coming? I've run my computer for viruses, Trojans, adware, and spyware, and it's all been cleaned. But, I still continue to recieve these e-mails. Is there anything I can do to make them stop? Or am I just going to have to deal with it? Please Help.
Thank You!
~S1lent
P.S. If I put this in the wrong section than I apologize. I'm a new user so I still need to get use to what goes where.
bigc73542
April 27th, 2004, 09:12 PM
-{ Quote: "Lately, my SpamBlocker has been picking up a lot of pornography e-mails. Is there anyways I can make them stop coming? I've run my computer for viruses, Trojans, adware, and spyware, and it's all been cleaned. But, I still continue to recieve these e-mails. Is there anything I can do to make them stop? Or am I just going to have to deal with it? Please Help.
Thank You!
~S1lent
P.S. If I put this in the wrong section than I apologize. I'm a new user so I still need to get use to what goes where." }-
As long as your spamblocker is catching the porn mail and it is not getting through about all you can do is just keep deleting it.as it gets caught by SpamBlocker.
bigc
longdog
April 28th, 2004, 03:39 AM
If it's gets too bad you could always try changing your email address. If this is possible i would recommend it, but only as a last resort. Best of luck.
meneer
April 28th, 2004, 03:45 AM
Even previewing a message in Outlook (Express) may result in a request to a server on the internet, thereby identifying you as a spam reader.
I would disable the preview function or move away from Outlook (Express).
Paranoid2000
May 3rd, 2004, 12:09 AM
Consider also using disposable email addresses in future. If you have one address and give it to everyone, then sooner or later it will get leaked to a spammer and you won't know who is to blame. If you give every website and company a unique temporary email, then you can shut down any that start to receive spam and take appropriate measures with the guilty party.
The site I find the best for this is SpamGourmet (www.spamgourmet.com) (which has other domains like spamcannon.org, antichef.net and recursor.net if you want to avoid giving a bad impression) but SneakEmail (www.sneakemail.com) and Mailinator (www.mailinator.com) are viable alternatives.
There is a lot to be said for dumping LookOut (Express) though :) - a good free alternative is ThunderBird (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/).
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