Hijacked Address

[Lisa]

I have two accounts on my PC and I am the administrator.
My husband's Yahoo mail address is receiving over 100
spam messages a day. I run adware and it comes up with
nothing. Are there any controls I can apply? This address
is on his business cards so changing account names is not
an option. Neither is blocking the senders since they are
only sent one time. Apparently his addressed has been
hijacked. Any suggestions? Thanks

 

[Guest]

Suggestion: do not give the address out to any business
ever, nor to anyone you do not know personally.

There is no solution to prevent someone from sending you
email. There are plenty of solutions that can delete the
spam.

 

[Guest]

Yahoo provides spam blocking tools on their email page.
log into the yahoo account and activate the spam blocking
tools....
This has nothing to do with your computer or your Windows
XP operating system.

 

[Guest]

Try searching for Bazooka! When you get this it is
brilliant and deletes all info of the hijackers and tells
you what to do step-by-step. If not, try Spyboy.

 

[Lisa]

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
Yahoo provides spam blocking tools on their email page.
log into the yahoo account and activate the spam blocking
tools....
This has nothing to do with your computer or your Windows
XP operating system.
.

 

[Lisa]

Spam blocking is already activated. This appear to be
legitmate addresses anyway, so I don't think they would
be identified as spam.

 

[JB]

Spam blocking is already activated. This appear to be
legitmate addresses anyway, so I don't think they would
be identified as spam.

Hey Lisa,

If you or your hubby have a website with e-mail address on it you
should find another way to advertise the address other than using
Mailto:[email protected] as this is picked up by bots on the web which gather
this info.

There are some web sites that give examples of simple java script to
re-form your mail address so that it makes it much harder to get from
your address.

HTH

J

p.s. you might already know this but never use your e-mail address in a
newsgroup either.