Hungry Jack
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Post by Hungry Jack on Apr 19, 2017 10:25:56 GMT -8
I am sure most of us deal with it. I sure do. I have had the same email address for over 20 years, and I have little doubt that it has been sold, resold, and sold again to spammers from Russia, China, Latvia, North Korea, Hungary, and Lesotho (among other places).
I don't use a local antivirus/antispam tool--just Windows Defender. I do not download anything unless I know the sender and am expecting a document.
But I get tons of spam email, and thankfully my ISP provider's webmail has spam filters you can configure. Trying to filter on the sender address is useless as spammers use masking agents and dynamic agents. The most effective filter involves filtering key words on subject headers. I would estimate that it is 95% effective, and when it doesn't catch one I simply update the filter.
What is your defense against spam?
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zeke
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Post by zeke on Apr 19, 2017 10:34:13 GMT -8
I've had the same gmail address for about 15 years, and receive about 50 spam messages a month. The filter catches them before I see them. Most of them are from places I bought something once, and they don't unsubscribe when I ask. Some are from travel websites, some from car parts, and some spam is from known friends whose email has been compromised.
Since they go straight to the Spam file, I wouldn't have guessed I got that many if you hadn't asked. I had to go look.
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Post by Coolkat on Apr 19, 2017 10:46:01 GMT -8
I've had the same email address for 15 years. One time it was hacked but by an inept hacker and was able to get it back inside 24hours. I've never had a virus, malware, or spyware to deal with. I'm just very careful about what email I open and what I delete without looking at it. I also only use Windows Defender. However, because the company that I get my "free" email address from has recently proven itself also to be inept and very slow to admit to breeches of security I'm in the process of slowly switching over to a new paid-for email address.
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markskor
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Post by markskor on Apr 19, 2017 10:48:01 GMT -8
Use Norton + Chrome
I have two (actually 3) email addresses - one for official school stuff, one for good friends, and another one for all others.
The third, I never open up anything from there... and, it still gets 50+ messages a day.
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zeke
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Post by zeke on Apr 19, 2017 11:46:16 GMT -8
So, which one do you list in your profile?
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Post by markskor on Apr 19, 2017 12:42:49 GMT -8
So, which one do you list in your profile? For this zoo? #3...thought best... pretty obvious. |
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Post by hikingtiger on Apr 20, 2017 9:40:19 GMT -8
Disappointed that we're not talking about SPiced hAM in this thread. Best served fried in the skillet. With eggs. And Spam. Or maybe spam, spam, spam, eggs, and spam. Or...
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Post by geosp on Apr 20, 2017 21:37:33 GMT -8
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Post by tigger on Apr 21, 2017 6:44:13 GMT -8
Spam is not filtered by anti-virus programs (unless there is an actual virus attached that is in their database) in general. I filter mail that comes from outside the US unless I happen to need to receive contact from a specific vendor. I used to use Spambayes with great success (filter that learns from your filtering behaviour), but I have not found a way to get it to work with Outlook beyond the 2010 version. I also do basic keyword and domain filters beyond the built-in filter provided by Godaddy. I get around 20 bogus mail messages a month.
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Hungry Jack
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Post by Hungry Jack on Apr 21, 2017 9:03:25 GMT -8
Tigger is mistaken.
Spammers take one look at his avatar and run screaming in the opposite direction.
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