My mums microsoft outlook is plauged with spam. she gets 40 emails a day 39 of those will be spam.no matter how high we turn the spam blocker up, it will have no effect. she doesn't want to change her e-mail address as she has a lot of contacts for work and stuff......so what can we do to get rid of it?
Block the adresses...
Fuck all. It's a common problem nowadays - I suffer it, but to a lesser extent.
you serious, cause that aint gonna work, theres tons of them. i'll be there for years.Jenspm wrote:
Block the adresses...
I get a minimum of 50 pieces of spam mail a day in my Outlook. Tell her to switch to Gmail.
We get 200 - 500 spam emails per 24 hours on a business catch all email account.
get none with g-mail
but used to get ~20 day back on my hotmail account, but i had had that for 2 years, signing up for countless things along the way
but used to get ~20 day back on my hotmail account, but i had had that for 2 years, signing up for countless things along the way
Lol wut?
shit man, thats a lot of spam, i thought my old msn inbox was bad.....
Tell your mum to stop registering with porn sites lol
We've just got a new thing here in Australia, where you can register your phone number as a "do not call" number, and call centres aren't allowed to call the numbers that are registered (lol about a million people registered in the first 24 hours of it starting). I wish we could have something like that for email...
We've just got a new thing here in Australia, where you can register your phone number as a "do not call" number, and call centres aren't allowed to call the numbers that are registered (lol about a million people registered in the first 24 hours of it starting). I wish we could have something like that for email...
Last edited by cospengle (2007-06-02 07:21:34)
You are the funny one, right?cospengle wrote:
Tell your mum to stop registering with porn sites lol
Well it would probably help...Chou wrote:
You are the funny one, right?cospengle wrote:
Tell your mum to stop registering with porn sites lol
Get Mozilla Thunderbird....
I get about 2-5 spam messages a week.
Oh forgot to mention, you can import your address book to Thunderbird so you won't loose them.
I get about 2-5 spam messages a week.
Oh forgot to mention, you can import your address book to Thunderbird so you won't loose them.
Last edited by TravisC555 (2007-06-02 10:32:32)
Let's all go to Microsoft head office and fuck up all their office
Last edited by Andoura (2007-06-02 10:28:39)
You must be a really popular bloke just like Titch
Yes, i've had my hotmail email for like 4 years now and every single day its constant bullshit... Heres a funny story:Nintendogamer wrote:
My mums microsoft outlook is plauged with spam. she gets 40 emails a day 39 of those will be spam.no matter how high we turn the spam blocker up, it will have no effect. she doesn't want to change her e-mail address as she has a lot of contacts for work and stuff......so what can we do to get rid of it?
Back a while ago when Gmail was Invite-only, i got an account. I never used this account, and still to this day its been logged into no more then 10 times. Anyways, things that required email addresses for sign-ups that i didn't want to use my real email for, i would use the gmail email. Now, i only did this maybe 5 times in the life of this account. The account has been alive for maybe like a year so far, and i never check into it, but the spam filter seems to be on high cause when i logged in a week ago this is what i saw:
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g298/ … isghey.jpg
Yeah... look at how many emails are in the spam folder and i only used the account a few times at a few sites... GHEY!
Last edited by Dezerteagal5 (2007-06-02 10:37:19)
15 more years! 15 more years!
do you have to have firefox to use that???? i use Internet xplorer 7.TravisC555 wrote:
Get Mozilla Thunderbird....
I get about 2-5 spam messages a week.
Oh forgot to mention, you can import your address book to Thunderbird so you won't loose them.
http://www.burrotech.com/officemail.php <-- download, install, set up, it's spam filter is rather good, too good actually I spend a lot of time looking for legit mails it's filtered lol.
EDIT: Shit never mind I thaught the spam filter was in the free version.
Though it is very cheap if you do want to buy it.
EDIT: Shit never mind I thaught the spam filter was in the free version.
Though it is very cheap if you do want to buy it.
Last edited by TheEternalPessimist (2007-06-02 10:48:55)
No, you just need to set up an account with all the correct email servers and stuff.do you have to have firefox to use that???? i use Internet xplorer 7.
Last edited by TravisC555 (2007-06-02 10:50:21)
Switch to gmail or run a spam filter plug-in on top of outlook.
I recommend SpamAssassin. A very good open source anti-spam algorithm.
http://sa.reusch.net/
Software anti-spam solution is quite good, however, hardware or 3rd party Spam hosting is better. A really really good hardware solution is AutumnTech.
http://www.autumntech.net/
I recommend SpamAssassin. A very good open source anti-spam algorithm.
http://sa.reusch.net/
Software anti-spam solution is quite good, however, hardware or 3rd party Spam hosting is better. A really really good hardware solution is AutumnTech.
http://www.autumntech.net/
Last edited by trippy982 (2007-06-02 10:57:13)
Tell your mom to not click on advertisement banners, or open website links that come in spam messages in her e-mail. Some of those spam messages come with a link that unsubscribes you from their database, try that out. Other than that you could open a new e-mail account or suffer that constant barrage of spam :\.
Unsubscribe. Register to hotmail addresses etc so you don't get spammed!