More spam with Vista

[brightony]

Have recently got new Desktop running Visat and Windows mail. on my old PC
running XP I would get 2 to 3 spams a day, now with Vista I am getting 50 to
60 ? anybody got a logical reason for this ?

 

[Keith Manning]

Have recently got new Desktop running Visat and Windows mail. on my old PC
running XP I would get 2 to 3 spams a day, now with Vista I am getting 50
to
60 ? anybody got a logical reason for this ?

I don't have a reason, but I do have a solution. Set yourself up a gMail
account. Google are experts at filtering out junk mail. Plus you can send
from GMail using your regular email address. You'll be surprised how good
they are.

keith

 

[Rick Rogers]

The few that had your valid email sold it as part of a list to other
spammers. It only gets worse, not better. It has nothing to do with your
operating system.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[brightony]

Thanks for the reply - no they are all from differnt servers - but for only a
few products which I expect you have seen like Roles watches - drugs and
penis enlargement

 

[Joseph Meehan]

I would guess you are getting more now because you are no longer
filtering it as well. You may have had a third party SPAM filter on or you
used some message rules to eliminate it under XP but for one reason or
another those filters are not now active.

 

[Charlie Tame]

I would guess you are getting more now because you are no longer
filtering it as well. You may have had a third party SPAM filter on or
you used some message rules to eliminate it under XP but for one reason
or another those filters are not now active.

If you have ever used a real email address in a newsgroup like this one
or something that appears in a forum they are "Harvested" by spammers
and the increase can be dramatic. Mine is real because I was
investigating the problem as part of a group and 1000 a day is not
uncommon. Thunderbird helps a lot, previously I had used Popfile with
Outlook Express which was about the same or maybe a little better. I
don't care because I have my own server and they can waste as much time
on me as they like, but it can become very annoying so you might ask
your ISP for another address and use it ONLY for business with reputable
merchants.

Also, encourage friends who sent things like jokes to a lot of people to
put the recipients in BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) instead of just "To"
everybody, then if one gets a virus or otherwise compromises your group
they do not get all your friends as well

 

[MICHAEL]

I don't have a reason, but I do have a solution. Set yourself up a gMail
account. Google are experts at filtering out junk mail. Plus you can send
from GMail using your regular email address. You'll be surprised how good
they are.

Agreed. Gmail's junk mail filters are very good. I also get my Gmail
via their pop servers through Outlook, and that adds another effective
filtering opportunity. Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail also have
junk email filters that are updated by Microsoft. Retrieving your Gmail
using an email client that also does filtering, can almost eliminate any
junk mail in your inbox.

Hotmail has gotten better at detecting junk, too. But, not as good as Gmail.


-Michael

 

[DanS]

Also, encourage friends who sent things like jokes to a lot of people to
put the recipients in BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) instead of just "To"
everybody, then if one gets a virus or otherwise compromises your group
they do not get all your friends as well

Not only that, but delete the (usually) long list of e-mail names that the
particular piece of mail had gone thru.

The wife gets things sent to her all the time by some friends. You start at
the top and scroll thru 5 or 6 pages of e-mail addresses that it had gone
thru until you get to the end and there's a 2 or 3 line joke or something.

Very annoying.

 

[Travis Crow]

I don't have a reason, but I do have a solution. Set yourself up a gMail
account. Google are experts at filtering out junk mail. Plus you can send
from GMail using your regular email address. You'll be surprised how good
they are.

Ironic that most spam originates from Google then.

 

[XS11E]

Ironic that most spam originates from Google then.

Easily fixed, see my signature: