junk mail/virus alerts

[steve56]

i get loads of these 3 times a day its getting a nuisance now,i usually delete without reading thru them all ,any other tips?

[Deuce Bigolo]

In the future try Lizards Locker in the miscellaneous section



cheers
B....OZ

[steve56]

cheers deuce.

[mart]

Good suggestion Deuce, did you know its Kiwi....lol.
Btw, a major spammer - Shane Atkinson - has just been outed in Christchurch NZ. The scumbag was very upset because an anti-spammer tracked him and published his home address and phone no.

Mart

[Deuce Bigolo]

MailWasher is a NZ Invention...that would explain why my computers throwing a hissy fit....lol

Serves Mr Atkinson right

I've been led to believe most spam originates from about 7 Multi National Companies

If all goes to plan in the US off A Spam will soon be illegal

cheers
B....OZ

[Matt - A-W-D]

These emails are damn annoying to say the least. I've been getting almost 200 a day for about 2 weeks now. As the other posters have said, Mailwasher Pro is very good. You can set filters for certain subject lines to stop the messages from being displayed.

[steve56]

the most i had in a day was 80,others included stupid adverts and repeated messages from other sources

[Guilbert]

One way to beat spammers is to have 2 or more e-mail
addresses. I am on broadband and can have up to 15.

Use one for updating forums (like this one), registering
for products on the web etc.

Keep another for friends/business, and never use this
for any other reson.

Hopefully the 'friends' e-mail address should only ever
get valid e-mails, the other will get all the spam.

Once the spam gets too much, ditch that e-mail address,
and get another.

Guilbert

[Wink Wink]

Heard on the radio a few months back a report of a guy in Holland who is behind some of the spam we get on our computers.

It appears that in order to cover their tracks they were hacking into computers from large multi national companies & using them as the source of spam. Someone tracked the spam & traced it to a computer used by British Airways. The It dept at B.A. could not do anything about it!

The guy in Holland could not see that he was going anything wrong in sending out all these spams!!! The joker!!!

There is a guy who lives on a boat on the Thames who has launched his own battle against spammers.

[woodgnome]

this is the thames guy's site: