Email addresses check this out

demyansk · 11-18-2006, 12:35 PM

Ok, i use this website to find out where "Spam" email comes from

http://www.easywhois.com/

Now, if anyone uses it how the heck do you get off someones account besides using filtering? all of a sudden I got spam emails with thunderbird and I have the stuff sent to my junk mail box but it still is a pain

any suggestions about what to do when you know the address of the originator of the email?

Lorian · 11-18-2006, 12:38 PM

Not much you can do really, it's mostly done by spam bots. Ie. Compromised Windows machines sending out mass spam. there is no central place you can block.

demyansk · 11-18-2006, 12:41 PM

thanks lorian, i never get hit with my thunderbird but somehow the other day it happened, i guess the only thing to do is change email addresses

Lorian · 11-18-2006, 12:43 PM

Never click any links, or load any images in spam. If you do you will be bombarded with it.

I find Gmail's spam filter very good, not much get past the spam filter and into my inbox. I currently have over 1200 spam messages in my spam box.

**Vulcan** · 11-18-2006, 02:24 PM

My ISP uses Hotmail and it catches all this crap. I just empty it out every so often and report. It continually gets less and less.

**CingularDuality** · 11-19-2006, 02:46 AM

I report all my spam to www.SpamCop.net

It helps.

ScratchMonkey · 11-24-2006, 03:38 PM

The worst thing you can do is click Remove links in spam. That just verifies your address, which then gets passed around to even more spammers.

A lot of spam is sourced by Russian mobsters running botnets of thousands of compromised machines. Good luck doing anything proactive about those.

A good ISP will have SpamAssassin somewhere in its system to mark and score spam. It looks at lots of features of a message and assigns a spamminess score to each feature. You can then decide at what threshold to toss a message in the trashcan. The default scores are designed to put the threshold at 5. I outright reject all messages scoring more than 10 at my mail server, and anything between 5 and 10 goes in a probabably-spam folder, sorted by score.

http://spamassassin.org/

11-18-2006, 12:35 PM	#1 (permalink)
demyansk Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 176	Email addresses check this out Ok, i use this website to find out where "Spam" email comes from http://www.easywhois.com/ Now, if anyone uses it how the heck do you get off someones account besides using filtering? all of a sudden I got spam emails with thunderbird and I have the stuff sent to my junk mail box but it still is a pain any suggestions about what to do when you know the address of the originator of the email?

11-18-2006, 12:38 PM	#2 (permalink)
Lorian Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: United Kingdom Age: 18 Posts: 2,036	Re: Email addresses check this out Not much you can do really, it's mostly done by spam bots. Ie. Compromised Windows machines sending out mass spam. there is no central place you can block. __________________ \|TG-E17th\|Lorian Member since 18th February 2006 Supporting member since 4th August 2006 PGP public key Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Memory: 2x 1GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 RAM Video Card: XFX NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT 256MB Monitor: 17" Dell CRT and 15" generic LCD Sound Card: Creative X-Fi Xtrememusic and Creative Sound Blaster Live! (no Linux X-Fi drivers yet)

11-18-2006, 12:41 PM	#3 (permalink)
demyansk Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 176	Re: Email addresses check this out thanks lorian, i never get hit with my thunderbird but somehow the other day it happened, i guess the only thing to do is change email addresses

11-18-2006, 12:43 PM	#4 (permalink)
Lorian Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: United Kingdom Age: 18 Posts: 2,036	Re: Email addresses check this out Never click any links, or load any images in spam. If you do you will be bombarded with it. I find Gmail's spam filter very good, not much get past the spam filter and into my inbox. I currently have over 1200 spam messages in my spam box. __________________ \|TG-E17th\|Lorian Member since 18th February 2006 Supporting member since 4th August 2006 PGP public key Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Memory: 2x 1GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 RAM Video Card: XFX NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT 256MB Monitor: 17" Dell CRT and 15" generic LCD Sound Card: Creative X-Fi Xtrememusic and Creative Sound Blaster Live! (no Linux X-Fi drivers yet)

11-18-2006, 02:24 PM	#5 (permalink)
Vulcan Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Montreal Age: 30 Posts: 7,318	Re: Email addresses check this out My ISP uses Hotmail and it catches all this crap. I just empty it out every so often and report. It continually gets less and less. __________________ TG Primer - CSS SOP's - INS SOP's

11-19-2006, 02:46 AM	#6 (permalink)
CingularDuality Join Date: May 2003 Location: Dallas/Ft. Worth area of Texas, USA Age: 33 Posts: 16,795	Re: Email addresses check this out I report all my spam to www.SpamCop.net It helps. __________________ Become a supporting member! -- Shop at the Tactical Market! Take the world's smallest political quiz! "I was touched by His Noodly Appendage." TacticalGamer TX LAN/BBQ Veteran:

11-24-2006, 03:38 PM	#7 (permalink)
ScratchMonkey Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: San Pablo, California Posts: 4,214	Re: Email addresses check this out The worst thing you can do is click Remove links in spam. That just verifies your address, which then gets passed around to even more spammers. A lot of spam is sourced by Russian mobsters running botnets of thousands of compromised machines. Good luck doing anything proactive about those. A good ISP will have SpamAssassin somewhere in its system to mark and score spam. It looks at lots of features of a message and assigns a spamminess score to each feature. You can then decide at what threshold to toss a message in the trashcan. The default scores are designed to put the threshold at 5. I outright reject all messages scoring more than 10 at my mail server, and anything between 5 and 10 goes in a probabably-spam folder, sorted by score. http://spamassassin.org/ __________________

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