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Spam email help!

Salad
Salad Posts: 10,189
edited January 2007 in Other Football and Sports
I am getting loads of spam email at home at the moment, usually to do with viagra, pharmacy, portfolios etc.
They come as some sort of image so you cannot block them based on containing the word viagra etc.
I block the senders of course but that makes little or no difference.

Any suggestions on how to stop these appreciated .... tHanks!

Comments

  • browny
    browny Posts: 1,091
    Go for the viagra,they might keep us up
  • Charlton Dan
    Charlton Dan Posts: 4,937
    You might need to get a server to put on something like MailSweeper mate.

    Is your email address out on the web? If so and you've got an account with some like Hotmail you're kinda buggered, cos they hold your account. If you have your own home email address with an ISP then you should have more luck

    Unfortunately once these people have your email then that's it cos they share it with so many similar companies
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    Thanks :-(
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    [cite]Posted By: Salad Spinner[/cite]I am getting loads of spam email at home at the moment, usually to do with viagra, pharmacy, portfolios etc.

    That'll teach you to give your E Mail address to Latimer - or any other dodgy back street 'pharmacist' copme to that.
  • heavenSE7
    heavenSE7 Posts: 1,282
    Try using blackspider mate, we use it in IT department here and its pretty sound.

    Not sure if it can be used from home, but it does exactly what your after.

    www.blackspider.com
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    Cheers Tom - I had a look at Blackspider but it is only if you have your own domain, I guess I will just have to wait for ZoneAlarm to get their arse into gear.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    By looking at the source of the email I always see cid:
    eg. "src=3D"cid:"
    which I think is to do with the image, tried setting up Outlook rule to delete messages if they contain this text - didn't work

    I have now installed some freeware called "SpamAware" - I'll see how I get on with that.
    Thanks!
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,157
    edited July 2022
    Has there been any updates on how to deal with spam emails?

    As soon as I delete, they almost immediately come rolling back in as if on some loop or knowledge that I've deleted.

    I never respond just bin but it's really pissing me off, that this can just continue and I seemingly can't do anything to stop them!
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    Just report as Junk
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    sillav nitram said:
    Has there been any updates on how to deal with spam emails?

    As soon as I delete, they almost immediately come rolling back in as if on some loop or knowledge that I've deleted.

    I never respond just bin but it's really pissing me off, that this can just continue and I seemingly can't do anything to stop them!
    I went over to Proton Mail a year ago and get no spam emails, I have since closed my Hotmail & GMail Accounts. 
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  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,157
    WSS said:
    Just report as Junk
    I do but all the spammers do is change the email format/wording and by doing so evade spam detectors and end up in my inbox!
  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,918
    I was getting loads of spam many using McAfee or some spurious account being closed. i used to block them but they still kept coming through.  I then looked at why they were not picked up as listed junk and saw they were changing the text in the domain name so it wasn't identified as a blocked domain. But often part of the gibberish in the domain name or subject title had some common text. I set up rules in BT Mail and Outlook that told them to delete emails which contained certain text in the domain name or subject title. Every time one slipped through I identified the new domain or text which had been made and added a rule to cover it. I also noticed that the spammers often use the first part of your email address as your title, so blocked emails that were addressed me in that form. These actions have virtually eliminated my spam.  
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,157
    edited July 2022
    Dippenhall said:
    I was getting loads of spam many using McAfee or some spurious account being closed. i used to block them but they still kept coming through.  I then looked at why they were not picked up as listed junk and saw they were changing the text in the domain name so it wasn't identified as a blocked domain. But often part of the gibberish in the domain name or subject title had some common text. I set up rules in BT Mail and Outlook that told them to delete emails which contained certain text in the domain name or subject title. Every time one slipped through I identified the new domain or text which had been made and added a rule to cover it. I also noticed that the spammers often use the first part of your email address as your title, so blocked emails that were addressed me in that form. These actions have virtually eliminated my spam.  
    Yep, McAfee are one of mine. I’ll take a look at your suggestion. Thanks
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,157
    eaststandmike said:
    sillav nitram said:
    Has there been any updates on how to deal with spam emails?

    As soon as I delete, they almost immediately come rolling back in as if on some loop or knowledge that I've deleted.

    I never respond just bin but it's really pissing me off, that this can just continue and I seemingly can't do anything to stop them!
    I went over to Proton Mail a year ago and get no spam emails, I have since closed my Hotmail & GMail Accounts. 
    It may have been you @eaststandmike that mentioned Proton before? It says they’re based in Switzerland and presumably one sets up a new email account and server?

    Do you just have the email account and do you pay a fee?

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