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| 33794 | 2002-01-31 23:46:00 | Could somebody possibly explain to me just what, if any, filters an ISP such as xtra would have in place to guard against spam? I have this ongoing battle with xtra about spam mail. I've had to drop all my email alias and change my email address. This has solved the obvious spam addressed to me but now I've received a beauty. There is no recipent address, I've checked out the headers, it's from a hotmail address so I'll assume it will be a once only send. I'm no prude at all but this is a shocker. As soon as it arrived it opened, (I am running a firewall and virus software) every four letter word and porn phrase is sitting there. Xtra informed me that it is too much trouble to filter out the sort of spaM I receive. The usual ones are addressed to 50 variations on a single xtra address. Are xtra doing anything? Does anybody? |
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| 33795 | 2002-02-01 00:13:00 | I'd say by the sound of it you got the same one we got at work the other day! We've got all sorts of firewalls, antivirus software, etc. but the message still got through even though the attachment had been deleted. I was with Xtra and got a similar one a month or so back - thankfully the subject line was not something that invited me to open it! Like you, I'm no prude but this was pretty disgusting. For a variety of reasons I changed to Paradise and haven't had any trouble since - don't know whether they are more vigilant or if I've just been lucky, but these kind of emails are certainly unpleasant. Good luck in stopping them! | Guest (0) | ||
| 33796 | 2002-02-01 00:17:00 | ISP generaly dont filter your email unless you sign up for the service specificaly. EG I-Spy from IHug. This is the reason they go straight to your email box. Xtra will get more than most because it is now a MSN portal and has a very big public fingerprint so any spammer with a mailer daemon can generate large lists from randomly generated names. | Guest (0) | ||
| 33797 | 2002-02-01 00:30:00 | I would suggest you change ISP, I use Paradise & don't get any spam at all, XTRA are hopeless, always have been, always will be | Guest (0) | ||
| 33798 | 2002-02-01 01:37:00 | While this does not solve the problem of xtra not filtering the spam, what you can do if you use Outlook Express is click Message>Create Rule from Message>of the 3 windows the first is ticked by default though you can change that to suit>the 2nd window scroll down to Delete from Server>the 3rd window shows the address used. This you can customise further. If the address is soemthing silly like free@grouplotto.com or sexpics@adult.com, you can single right click the address and in the small box that pops up add a second address to block which will be everything from the @ onwards, eg- @adult.com or @grouplotto.com so now you block not only the full address which in all likely hood will be different tomorrow but you also block anything ending in the @adult.com address as well. In the case of hotmail, yahoo, xtra, being the address used, don't add the 2nd address into the 3rd window otherwise you will not only block the spam sender but all senders from that isp as well. It does work, I applied it to a friends computer just a couple of weeks ago, he was getting in excess of 200+ spam per day and increasing almost everyday, now it is near enough nothing. |
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