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| Thread ID: 41225 | 2004-01-03 23:01:00 | Spam is a pain!! | Peter M (852) | Press F1 |
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| 205121 | 2004-01-03 23:01:00 | I am receiving heaps of spam messages every day despite using mailwasher. Originally I was bouncing them back but that didn't work so now I just delete them. Some of them include my name in the subject line. Even my surname. How can they get these details when I never enter my name on a site? Are they getting the details from my PC if so how? I run zone alarm to block access, have done Ad-aware and spybot with no result and mailwasher to view and delete before opening any messages. I am running Win98 with IE6. Any ideas on stopping this nuisance would be appreciated. | Peter M (852) | ||
| 205122 | 2004-01-03 23:13:00 | Seeing as they include your personal details i would guess they are getting the details from someones computer who has you in their address book. In the worst case scenerio i would suggest changing your e-mail address |
metla (154) | ||
| 205123 | 2004-01-03 23:34:00 | Unfortunately there isn't much you can do about it, except to keep blacklisting and bouncing the email (the ones you can anyway). While you may take good precautions with your email address and computer, your address can still be obtained from other peoples computers via a virus etc that gets all the address from thier address book. As said above, short of changing your email address I'm afraid you are going to have to put up with it. If you are with Xtra or Ihug then go turn on the spam filter options, not that xtra's one is any good I started recieving ten times the spam I used to get as soon as they started their supposed anti spam software. Couple of simple guidelines (in case you don't already) never use your real email address on Website sign up forms, Newsgroups and mailing lists (use a hotmail or yahoo one instead and set the mail block to BLOCK ALL emails unless the address is in your contacts list) |
Odin (227) | ||
| 205124 | 2004-01-03 23:36:00 | > Seeing as they include your personal details i would > guess they are getting the details from someones > computer who has you in their address book. Or from a website which you are a member of. |
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