Spammers are getting better IME (Gmail and Hotmail)
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Sun Aug 29, 2010 4:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Are spammers getting better? |
My Gmail account has delivered two spam emails in the last two days to my inbox. Gmail is usually excellent at filtering these things into my spam folder... |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Sun Aug 29, 2010 5:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are spammers getting better? |
My ISP's spam filter seems to work perfectly for me. It's been ages since spam got through. I forget what level I've got it set at (you can choose how agressive it is). To make sure all genuine emails get through I've set up a white list. |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Sun Aug 29, 2010 7:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are spammers getting better? |
Spammers are getting better IME (Gmail and Hotmail)
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| Author: | big_D [ Mon Aug 30, 2010 6:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are spammers getting better? |
Don't see much spam (about 1 or 2 a month on Hotmail - account active since 1996), on my others I don't see any. That said, it is a constant battle between the spammers and the filter writers... |
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| Author: | rustybucket [ Mon Aug 30, 2010 7:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are spammers getting better? |
Am I the only one who thinks we need some kind of name authentication system on email? Not sure how it would work but it would need some sort of security certification. It just seems silly to me that we're trying to filter the spammers out rather than engineering them out. |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Mon Aug 30, 2010 7:27 am ] | |||||||||
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I presume you mean some sort of add-on for SMTP? The problem is that if you start meddling with SMTP then mail servers may not talk to each other properly, if you create a replacement for SMTP then how can you send mail to another SMTP server? SMTP is everywhere... It can be done, but it's up to mail administrators to implement it, for example Google requires an email address to send mail from one of it's accounts, on the other hand Aber uni only requires you to be inside the aber network, then you can FTP right into the mail server and send mails to anyone, from anyone! |
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| Author: | finlay666 [ Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are spammers getting better? |
Anyone else getting spammed by HK and CC on Facebook? (HeatherKay) August 30 at 10:48am Reply im sending you a gift thru this because u are my FAV!! lol jk but i did gogogo see it = <SPAM LINK> (ChurchCat) August 30 at 10:24am Reply im using up my fb ad credits to send u a gift so HERE = <SPAM LINK> You two should be disappointed in yourselves  (It was the fact it was sent by Facebook Mobile to that many people that made me suspicious tbh) |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:00 am ] | |||||||||
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Yup - and there's a third member of this forum doing it too. |
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are spammers getting better? |
Go to your Application settings and remove the app that seems to be added when you read the message. It's some trojan or other that came to me from another friend, and then it seems to pick up my entire friend list. Bastards. In fact, it's nearly made my mind up to follow Dave and commit FB suicide soon. |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are spammers getting better? |
Rectified that now...Bloody spam |
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| Author: | tombolt [ Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:06 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Who?! If it's me, I'm not on a computer to sort it out. Though I haven't been bothered by it, so probably isn't me. Apologies if so! |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:12 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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That'd me me 
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| Author: | finlay666 [ Mon Aug 30, 2010 2:17 pm ] | |||||||||
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I never clicked on it so it didnt install 
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| Author: | Nick [ Mon Aug 30, 2010 2:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are spammers getting better? |
OMG have you seen these pictures of Megan Fox naked? Check it out: www.meganfoxnaked.com/nakedpictures.exe |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Mon Aug 30, 2010 2:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are spammers getting better? |
Dammit - got an OS X version of that link Nick? I'd like to see that. |
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