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Does anyone get any spam emails in this news group?
Does anyone else get any spam emails from a porn site?
It shows a pictures saying FREE LIVE TEENS, ENTER HERE. Its connected to a subdomain of site.voila.fr I don't know how they have got my email address, becuase I don't use it for anything else but posting here! But I do know it is VERY annoying! I get over 40 e-mails from them a day. Its a pain in the back side as one would say! Any feedback would be appreciated Peter |
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Peter wrote: Any feedback would be appreciated I used to get lots of spam on my Comcast account. I attribute much of that to the fact that I had an "email me" HTML button on my web site, since most of it started when I put that site up. If someone using your computer actually visited a porn site, that can also cause this, 'cause they can pull your email address from your preferences. Usually you would get mail from multiple senders if this happens, since they sell your name. My stepson may be partially responsible for some of the stuff I used to get on the Comcast account. He actually trashed my wife's laptop when he picked up a "trojan horse" on one of those sites, and that was embarrasing enough that I think he doesn't visit sites like that anymore. One thing to check is the "To" line in the spam. If it's actually your email address, they've picked it up in some fashion like that. If, on the other hand, it's *not* your address, they're using a mailing list, which they probably bought somewhere or obtained through a virus on someone else's machine. If you want to continue using that address, the only solution I know is to use filters to block it. If you don't mind changing names, perhaps you can set up a new user name with your ISP. George Patterson If you don't tell lies, you never have to remember what you said. |
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Peter wrote:
Does anyone else get any spam emails from a porn site? It shows a pictures saying FREE LIVE TEENS, ENTER HERE. Its connected to a subdomain of site.voila.fr I don't know how they have got my email address, becuase I don't use it for anything else but posting here! But I do know it is VERY annoying! I get over 40 e-mails from them a day. Its a pain in the back side as one would say! Any feedback would be appreciated Peter A lot of people who are relatively new to Usenet nievely use their complete email address as a reply address. Spammers use bots (automated software) to trawl Usenet groups for these email addresses and add them to a mailing list. You may have noticed that most people who have been posting for a while use malformed versions of their email address with what's known as a spam trap part. Notice my reply address. You would need to remove the "no_spam_thanks" bit to reply. Actually, I don't even use this address anymore because I used it for an online newsletter subscription and started recieving 30 to 40 bits of rubbish per day. Anyone who wants to talk to me need only post here. The spam trap is a must have in these groups, but now that your address is out there you may need to get some spam filtering software. good luck |
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In article , gerrcoin wrote:
A lot of people who are relatively new to Usenet nievely use their complete email address as a reply address. Spammers use bots (automated software) to trawl Usenet groups for these email addresses and add them to a mailing list. You may have noticed that most people who have been posting for a while use malformed versions of their email address with what's known as a spam trap part. Of course, a lot of other people have good enough spam filtering that they just use their real email address. If you wish to do that, you should contact your ISP and get them to perform whatever filtering they can first (possibly using a service like Postini), and then get a mail reader that allows you to mark spam for automatic recognition. People that are really paranoid do that *and* use a bogus reply address. Mike Beede |
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On Wed, 05 May 2004 13:16:07 +0000, Peter wrote:
Does anyone else get any spam emails from a porn site? It shows a pictures saying FREE LIVE TEENS, ENTER HERE. Its connected to a subdomain of site.voila.fr I don't know how they have got my email address, becuase I don't use it for anything else but posting here! But I do know it is VERY annoying! I get over 40 e-mails from them a day. Its a pain in the back side as one would say! Any feedback would be appreciated Peter If you're getting spam, chances are it will only get worse. Often these guys share lists with each other. Which means, spam counts tend to go up rather than down. Because of the many, many security issues with Microsoft software, it's fairly easy for spamers to validate that the email address is valid and being recieved by a human. You do need to act and act now. If at all possible, I suggest that you save your self some hassle and change your email address. If you are not able to change your address, then go ahead and start looking into spam filtering software. Chances are, you're going to need it. Here's some fairly good stuff yet it may not be straight forward for you to install it. http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/ You will need to "train" the software so that it knows what is good email (ham) versus bad email (spam). Another option would be to invest time into migrating from outlook express to a better mail client. Mozilla's (as in Netscape) mail client (Thunderbird 0.6) is also an excellent option. It has built in anti-spam features and is fairly easy to use and/or train. You can find it he http://www.mozilla.org/products/thun...dSetup-0.6.exe Long story short, don't use your real email address when posting to news groups. I highly recommend you create a throw away email address on one of the many free mail sites (yahoo, hotmail, etc.) and use some dirivation of that address when posting. Just FYI, Yahoo has some of the best anti-spam software around for free email, so, even if that address does get spammed, much of it will be treated accordingly. This enables you to still make use of the throw away address until it becomes too bogged down with spam. Hope this helps! Cheers! |
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I get no spam (from this group)because my email address
is ancient and obsolete. I have tried to update it, but have thus far failed. Am not trying too hard, though. |
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"Mike Beede" wrote in message ... People that are really paranoid do that *and* use a bogus reply address. I use a fake address when I email my wife at work. |
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The thing is, it isn't from a specific sender, they are automatic generated
emails from made up accounts that don't exist. They are spoofing the smtp details so that they can't be traced which is also a pain in the backside! hehe "G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ... Peter wrote: Any feedback would be appreciated I used to get lots of spam on my Comcast account. I attribute much of that to the fact that I had an "email me" HTML button on my web site, since most of it started when I put that site up. If someone using your computer actually visited a porn site, that can also cause this, 'cause they can pull your email address from your preferences. Usually you would get mail from multiple senders if this happens, since they sell your name. My stepson may be partially responsible for some of the stuff I used to get on the Comcast account. He actually trashed my wife's laptop when he picked up a "trojan horse" on one of those sites, and that was embarrasing enough that I think he doesn't visit sites like that anymore. One thing to check is the "To" line in the spam. If it's actually your email address, they've picked it up in some fashion like that. If, on the other hand, it's *not* your address, they're using a mailing list, which they probably bought somewhere or obtained through a virus on someone else's machine. If you want to continue using that address, the only solution I know is to use filters to block it. If you don't mind changing names, perhaps you can set up a new user name with your ISP. George Patterson If you don't tell lies, you never have to remember what you said. |
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Peter wrote: The thing is, it isn't from a specific sender, they are automatic generated emails from made up accounts that don't exist. They are spoofing the smtp details so that they can't be traced which is also a pain in the backside! That's normal for spammers. I've used Netscape to set up filters on my account that filter out any mail which does not have "grpphoto" on the "To" line. That eliminates most of it right there, since these guys tend to use mailing lists. I also have a few filters that block anything with certain words in the title. You can also filter out messages based on the presence or absence of words in any other part of a piece of mail. I have them all moved to the trash folder automatically. There I can scan the sender list (a few legitimate parties also use mailing lists, and I want to read their stuff). I can then delete the entire mess by emptying the trash. Verizon also allows me to do this at the server level, but I don't like that as well. Basically, what you need to find is a key word or phrase that will allow you to identify a given message as trash. Then you can set up a filter to block it. George Patterson If you don't tell lies, you never have to remember what you said. |
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"Peter" wrote in message ... Does anyone else get any spam emails from a porn site? It shows a pictures saying FREE LIVE TEENS, ENTER HERE. Its connected to a subdomain of site.voila.fr I don't know how they have got my email address, becuase I don't use it for anything else but posting here! But I do know it is VERY annoying! I get over 40 e-mails from them a day. Its a pain in the back side as one would say! Any feedback would be appreciated Peter I was receiving so much spam, I almost gave up using email. Somedays I'd get five or more copies of the same "terrific offer" from five different phony addresses. I brought this on by faithfully replying to the spammers asking they remove my name from their list. Little did I know that was a horrible mistake. Then my sone told me about a free spam filter called Popfile. ( http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ ) It only took a short while to set it up. (I did have help from my son who was already using it, but it seems pretty straight-forward.) Once you set up the filter, it takes a few hundred emails to learn what you are wanting to accept and what you think is trash. In my case it was less than a week, and I had captured more than 200 spams. As of today, my results from POPfile are thus: in almost 7100 emails there have been only 77 classification errors or almost 99% accuracy. Pretty darn good for a free utility. The real beauty of this is that it does not automatically delete anything. It just classifies your emails according to parameters you establish, and then everything else is spam. A quick review of the spam folder- nearly always correct- and everything hits the deleted folder, and then on to spam Hell. If "good" emails are sent to the spam folder, you can always recover them and relocate them to the proper folder. As an example, for some reason emails from my wife were always classified as spam. After the third one, I just setup a 'magnet' with her email address as the criteria, and now everything she sends lands in the proper folder. Previously I was spending more than 30 minutes a day trying to figure out a technique to classify all the spams I get a day. Now, It takes less than five minutes! Gary Kasten |
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