Russian and Soft Porn Spam (not very tasty) (1 Viewer)

[Kevin Alexander]

I set up a new email account for my wife w/ Outlook Express, and unlike me, she gets about 30 unwanted porn and Russian spam emails a day. Why does she get these and not I if we both are using Outlook? How do I stop this?

 

[Rob Gardiner]

Kevin,

Try POPfile. It is a free spam filter for Windows that uses Bayesian Filtering (see Google for more info) and it does an excellent job. It takes about a month to train, but after that it filters out spam with about 98% accuracy. I have an old thread on POPfile in this forum.

 

[Holadem]

unwanted porn

Oxymoron alert.

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[John_Berger]

Why does she get these and not I if we both are using Outlook?

All that she needed to do was to put herself on a mailing list that was sold to others or somehow make her e-mail address known. My wife used to sign up for mailing lists that she thought would be "cute", "information" or some bulls**t like that (even after I told her repeatedly not to). She just recently grovelled to me to teach her to report spammers. (Comsic justice at work. )

It all comes down to the fact that somewhere her e-mail address got published. Period. Whether she posted a message on Usenet, had her e-mail forwarded by the f**king morons in the world who send chain letters without using the BCC: function , or somehow had her address listed somewhere, somehow the spammers got her e-mail address and started to distribute it.

Is this an e-mail address that she's had? Or is it a new account? If it's a new account, what's her domain?

 

[Kimmo Jaskari]

Happens to all email addresses sooner or later. If you're not getting spam yet... you will. May as well bite the bullet now and get antispam software.

I just installed a filtering mailserver at work that excises all viruses and tags spam as being spam so our users don't need any other third party antispam software, just a rule in their mail client to erase mails tagged ** SPAM ** in the subject line. The spam and virus floods finally reached such proportions that something like that had to be done to preserve sanity.

I've heard good things about SpamBayes too. They claim it is a more refined version of Bayesian filtering than Popfile, among others.

 

[Kevin Alexander]

Thanks guys. I forgot that I started this thread. Sent you a PM John_Berger.