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Ive had enough with SPAM , im getting so pissed.....
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| DJ RozzeR |
| Ok i have 2 email accounts on SMTP and two hotmail accounts, i must get about 20-30 SPAM Emails a day , its driving me crazy i keep adding the Addresses to the Block Senders List but they never seem to end, my ISP has a SPAM filter but its a load of , the worst thing is there all porn or enlarge your penis by 100% in 24hours, :) , i could just change my email but why should i change cause of these arse holes, there getting really cleaver like using your first name of your email like in the subject of the Email it will be ---Hi " Yourname " Its Laura -- open it up and its some crazy stupid porn thing , i cant even read my emails at work cause i dont know what im gonna open , is it me or is it getting worse. like pop ups are another thing. |
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| whitesmoke |
| i have an email address that i use whenever i sign up or register for things. my other email address i only use for people i know. i have never received an email that i did not want in my personal one. |
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| jploveparade |
The worst are the "re:" mails and the ones with attachments :whip:
Spam is definately getting on my nerves. And nothing seems to help :( |
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| andy |
| spam the spammers :D :D :D :D |
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| djSlain |
i don't know if a pop-up stopper would help. I think pop ups use put a cookie on ur computer to find out all about u. if u disable the pop-ups, my guess is that u'll recieve less of the spam.
but i'm already up to my neck in spam, i'm too lazy to start a new email with pop-up stopper enabled. The thing is...i shouldn't have to! damn, i hate spam too |
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| Dmatrox |
spam sucks. I gave up on hotmail, theres so much spam it takes time to find legit emails.
My university email is great, i have gotten zero spam in the last year, amazing.
you can try getting a different email account, but i think you still get spam, but less a day. |
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| Moongoose |
| The best thing is to have 2 sepparate accounts. One for the actual email you write and 2nd for registering on stuff. Even if the other one is full of spam you only need o check it once in a while, while the other one is clean :) |
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| jdat |
hell yeah I'm getting sick of this BS
they actually send it to my email box directly and also a cc copy sometimes so I get the same stupid spam twice grrrr :whip:
Otherwise I been getting these f#&@¤ēg annoying popups that seem to be served by something like Xads.org or I don't know what and like the pop ups come up either as ~close~ or MiCorosoft .... wtf with that I haven't been getting flooded by these but it still annoys the hell outta me.
And yeah I don't know how to figure out how these lamers got my email addy cause I never give it out .... I was wondering if they had webcrawlers that found the addy by going through a website ... I'm thinking so because my email adress is from a small domain name and there's like 10 15 email accounts total on that site and regurlaly the emails sent to me have Carbon Copies to the other people who have the same email domain ...... So does that mean we all signed up to some crappy thing and they send to our domain all at once , or did they steal the email addy from the site itself ? |
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| T-1000 |
About 30-40% of the Spam is from the free e-mail account providers themselves. Too many people forget to *uncheck* the few 'checkboxes' that happen to be just above the final Sign Up button. Those are typically useless newsletters, premium offer etc.......
The rest is purely the consequence of your own actions like signing up on websites that require your e-mail addy etc. and forgetting to *uncheck* the checkboxes there too. |
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| jonsimmonds |
| quote: | Originally posted by T-1000
About 30-40% of the Spam is from the free e-mail account providers themselves. Too many people forget to *uncheck* the few 'checkboxes' that happen to be just above the final Sign Up button. Those are typically useless newsletters, premium offer etc.......
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there are 2 checkboxes somewhere in the hotmail that let 3rd party companies send email to you, which are checked by defult in hotmail, cant remember where they are ass all my hotmail account is used for these days is msn messenger.
recently yahoo mail have implemented a far better anti spam filter and from geting on average 30 spam messages a day to the junk and 10 in my ebox + 5 or 6 usefull emaisl its gone to 40+ spam a day and just the usefull ones makin it to my inbox so give yahoo mail a try (mail.yahoo.com) |
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| KilldaDJ |
make ur email like
[email protected]
that would be almost impossible for email harvesters to even brute force
my advice is to just not leave ur email floating around on the internet, but its almost impossible since u have to sign up to 97% of everything in order to get access or whatever.
even my ta.net email addy is getting bombarded with spam and bulk mail
i dont even use that email address, but spammers still manage to get my email
little wankers... |
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| Tranc3 |
Well I can't really help you with the spam in emails bit, but regarding popups in browsers, here's my solution:
mozilla.org
Currently I'm using Firebird (was called phoenix but recently renamed due to something or other), it's an offshoot of the Mozilla project. Mozilla is a completely open-source browser, which means the community works on improving it instead of just one company. Additionally, it supports flash, shockwave, and java (the three big things I use when browsing the internet, besides the obvious html scripting). Mozilla also comes with Mandrake and Redhat, two of the more user-friendly flavors of Linux.
Ok, SO, after reading all this, I still haven't told you why it's so great. Two reasons:
1) It will automatically block all popups, as long as they're automated (so if you click on something to pop up a window, it will popup, but if you load a page that has popups come up when you load it, those will be blocked). Errm, sounds a bit confusing I know, but I hope you understand what I mean. OH! And if you don't a certain site to have all popups blocked, you can add it to the browser's list of sites whose popups shouldn't be blocked.
2) Tabulated browsing. Wow. Ok, it's like this: you middle-click or do something else (I only use middle click), and the new page for the link you clicked will open in a new tab within the browser. Hard to explain what it looks like, but the main advantage is this: you can browse multiple pages at once without creating entierly new instances of the browser, thereby lessening the amount of system rescources needed (and keeping your computer running faster than it would otherwise). Opera does something like this, and I think Netscape now does it as well, but Mozilla has been doing it for a longer time
:D
Umm....yeah. So to find Firebird, if there isn't a link to it on the main site, just put in a search for it. |
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