JUNK EMAILS

[dunny]

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I have Norton Anti  Spam yet find I am still inundated with emails from the USA offering me a variety of medicines and in particular upgrades to Microsoft. I must spend at least 15 minutes deleting these unsolicited messages every time I log onto my computer. If anyone  has  found a solution to blocking these annoying emails I would appreciate a reply

Jan

[Baz]

I know that both Wanadoo and Hotmail have Junk mail filter systems. I use mainly Hotmail which offers a number of levels of Junk mail filtering as well as safe lists, mailing lists, block senders and automatic reporting of Junk mail. I find maybe just a couple of Spams a day are still reaching my inbox with all the rest of the spams being automatically filtered into a Junk mail box. An ISP like Hotmail takes Spam very seriously and as such the safe guards it offers are  pretty effective and I would not use anything like Norton Anti spam. You could also consider using mailwasher as a way of opening your mail without any fears of viruses.

Baz

[Agenais]

I have found xterminator excellent at getting rid of junk mail before it reaches your in box.  Well worth a try, would recommend to one and all. 

http://www.artplus.hr/adapps/eng/xterminator.htm

[Harvey]

Thanks dunny for starting this thread.....I am sick to death of these spam emails...

Happy New Year!

[Wils]

I have just upgraded to Norton Internet Security 2006 and find that it gets rid of 90% of spam, those that get through you teach it about using the 'this is spam' button, gets better all the time.

[SC]

Unfortunately getting on junk e mail lists is a by-product of most amateur, and more often than not 'professional' website design that leaves your e mail address readable by harvesting programs. Once on the lists, there's not really any going back for most except to change e mail address, with all that entails. Anti-spam can be over-zealous, as you can read about on the Wanadoo / NTL thread in the computer forum, and personally I wouldn't want to lose a customer who might be spending a couple of thousand pounds, even if he is called Mr. Erection!. Things are much better than they were a year or so ago (before the Chinese government took action to close spam servers), when we were getting over 100 per day, now it's a dozen or so.

sc

[Richard-R]

Spam/Junk mail is a fact of internet life just like getting junk mail/leaflets via the postman.

Some days I get 10-20 other days I get 200+

[Anton Redman]

The two emergency Email addresses which I keep in case my Hotmail address is ever flooded do not receive junk Email. I keep my Hotmail address for day in day use and supply to anybody who asks for an Email address I receive no more than 10 Emails a day and report any junk amongst those as junk. In the UK you can register you address and phone number to prevent junk mail and cold calls. In France 'liste/code orange' works.  

[dunny]

thanks very much for the response to my junk mail problems. The day after I posted the message I received 63 emails and 62 of them were junk so I will definitely be trying some of your possible solutions.

Harvey, A Very  Happy New Year to you too!!

Dunny [:D]