Spam

[Shaun?]

This subject matter is of interest to all of us who use the internet and I'm getting alot of it presently.

Is there an easy way of not being on the receiving end of it?
I've just gone through the all the messages I've received since the beginning of the month and I can say about 250 were spam, anmd I've logged the address where most were sent to and I'm going to delete that address and mailbox. Two messages I've received were to the address that I use uniquely here and contained a virus, but it didn't unleash itself, so whoever passed my address on, Thanks.

Any suggestion will be listened to.

[MisterC]

Unfortunately some worms and virii pick e-mail addresses from webpages visited by an infected host pc. The best defence is good AV protection and a good killfile / filters.

The from address is usually faked, but usually the source IP address can be found in the full headers and then traced using a tool such as SamSpade. I then file an abuse report to the source ISP so that further transmission can be stopped.

[Eric Idle]

what like, Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam? you can never have enough SPAM!, those fritters they made at boarding school.ahh..the memories!

[Crimpo]

Its also not unknown for them to nick your e-mail address as a cover - you find out when 700 returned messages arrive in your in-box! That's one e-mail address I had to abandon!

Ah well we live and learn!

[Lizard]

Shaun, if your getting too much trouble, let me know, a guy who works for me is excellent at "correcting" the situation of spam/junk mail, even from automated mailing lists.

[Shaun?]

Well after deleting two addresses I fired up this morning and no spam!! so I've been successful so far, I'll see how things go in the next couple of weeks.

[mike johnson]

There are quite a few freeware utilities that fight spam. Go to download.com (CNet) & do a search.Note that at the bottom you can filter results by OS, license (free or not), & size of the program.
I have Webwasher installed but haven't used it yet, so can't report on its efficacy.