How to kill spam?

[antioch]

I suppose one could apply that advice to sex education???
Why didnt someone mention that to me all those years ago!
Antioch

 

[Wesley Vogel]

LOL There ya go a lab class.

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[Bruce Chambers]

Nowadays, most of spams are coming in html format.
So message rules do not work on those kinds of spam.
How can I kill those spams (in html)?
I use Outlook Express (and WinXP Pro-SP2).
Craig

While it's not possible to completely eliminate spam (unsolicited
commercial email), there are some precautions and steps you can take to
minimize it's impact:

1) Never, ever post your real email address, as you've done one this
post, to publicly accessible forums or newsgroups, such as this one. For
years now, spammers have been using software utilities to scan such
places to harvest email addresses. It's a simple matter to disguise
your posted email address so that these software "bots" can't obtain
anything useful. For example, insert some obviously bogus characters or
words into your reply address, for example: "(e-mail address removed)0m."

2) Never, ever reply to any spam you receive, even to "unsubscribe" or
"remove" yourself from the spammers' address lists; you'll only compound
the problem. If spammers had any intention of honoring the your desire
not to receive spam, they wouldn't have become spammers in the first
place. When you reply to a spammer, all you're doing is confirming that
he/she has a valid, marketable email address.

3) Be especially leery of any offers from websites for free software,
services, information, etc, that require your email address, or that
require your email address so you can "login" to access the offered
service and/or information. Many such sites are supplementing their
income by collecting addresses to sell to the spammers. For instance,
subscribing to CNN.COM's Breaking News Service will garner you a lot of
additional spam. (Of course, not all such sites have under-handed
motives; it's a judgment call. If the offer seems "too good to be
true," it's most likely a scam.)

4) DO forward any and all spam, with complete headers, to the
originating ISP with a complaint. Not all ISPs will make an effort to
shut down the spammers, but many will. One tool that makes forwarding
such complaints fairly simple is SpamCop (http://spamcop.net).

4) Another useful tool is MailWasher (http://www.mailwasher.net). This
utility allows you to preview your email before downloading it from the
server. Spammers can even be blacklisted, so that any future emails
from them will be automatically deleted from the server.

5) Within Outlook Express or whatever other email client application
you use, add any spammers to your Blocked Senders list, so the their
messages are automatically deleted from the server without being
downloaded to your PC.


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[Guest]

Yes ,of course .


First NAV (Norton Antivirus ) doesn't have SPAM protection as it is
antivirus tool.But Norton Internet Security has SPAM protection.But you don't
need Norton Internet Security.

I don't know why you use Outlook Express ,you have office Outlook which is
better.
It has SPAM protection which is very useful and good.
Open Office 2003 Outlook ,goto its settings and make sure its SPAM
protection ( it is called Junk protection) is ON and is set to High level.
All SPAM will automatically be moved to a folder Junk or you might choose to
have these junk letters automatically removed.
To have maximum and effectictive protection ,make sure you have updated your
Office 2003 to SP 2 and your Outlook Junk filters are up-to-date

To update your Office applications and your MS Office Outlook ,open any
Office program -(example Word ,Excel ,Outlook ,Power Point .......) then
click Help -> Check for Updates.

When you update your Office and when you have set High level of Junk
protection (in Outlook 2003 Junk protection means SPAM protection) ,your SPAM
will definitely be reduced.

Now think about the virus protection.Make sure your Norton AV scans ALL
files + compressed .Make sure its heuristic scan (also called *Bloodhoud* in
Norton) is set to Maximim.
If you have Norton 2003,2004 or 2005 ,use Symantec Intelligent Updater in
combination with Live Update

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...2002021908382713?OpenDocument&src=sec_web_nam

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/download.html

However ,if you have Norton 2006 version ,you don't need Intelligent updater
because Live Update offers daily updates (only in 2006 versions).


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[Vanguard]

I can understand getting mail with an incorrect username with correct node
name, but how the hell do I get mail when both username and node name are
incorrect?

Node name? What's that? An IP address? E-mail cannot be sent to you using
your IP address and why it is not a concern that your IP address is divulged
in newsgroup posts.

The recipient's e-mail address is listed in the RCPT TO command that the
e-mail client sends to their SMTP server. That domain gets the message and
it is up to that domain to deposit it into a holding area which is your
mailbox, and that does not have an IP address associated with it. E-mail is
not delivered to mailboxes based in IP addresses, especially since the vast
majority of users have *dynamic* IP address that will change.

Kill and watch filters apply to newsgroup posts, not e-mails. Since no one
is posting to Usenet that is specifically addressing their post to you, you
are never the recipient. The NNTP server is the recipient.

I have done just this on my desktop using Forte Agent but can find no way
in OE to apply the neccesary arguments to filter out the crap.

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the To line does not contain '(e-mail address removed)'
and Where the CC line does not contain '(e-mail address removed)'
and Where the message is from the <youraccount> account
Delete it
and Stop processing more rules

If you have more than one account, you need a duplicate rule as above for
each account. If you only have one account, you can omit the "from
<youraccount> account" clause since all mails are coming through a single
account. Think of it this way (in Boolean logic):

- If you are in the To or Cc field, you want the message, or:

To OR Cc.

- If you are not in either field, you don't want the message, or:

NOT (To OR Cc) = NOT To AND NOT Cc

After entering your e-mail address in the "To line contains" clause, use the
Options button to reverse the test (i.e., to 'NOT' it).

 

[Mike Hyndman]

Node name? What's that? An IP address? E-mail cannot be sent to you
using
your IP address and why it is not a concern that your IP address is
divulged in newsgroup posts.

Node name, the bit after the @ and before the domain name (ISP's definition)
I have a static IP address supplied by my ISP.

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the To line does not contain '(e-mail address removed)'
and Where the CC line does not contain '(e-mail address removed)'
and Where the message is from the <youraccount> account
Delete it
and Stop processing more rules

If you have more than one account, you need a duplicate rule as above for
each account. If you only have one account, you can omit the "from
<youraccount> account" clause since all mails are coming through a single
account. Think of it this way (in Boolean logic):

- If you are in the To or Cc field, you want the message, or:

To OR Cc.

- If you are not in either field, you don't want the message, or:

NOT (To OR Cc) = NOT To AND NOT Cc

After entering your e-mail address in the "To line contains" clause, use
the Options button to reverse the test (i.e., to 'NOT' it).

Fantastic V, many thanks

Regards

Mike H

 

[Vanguard]

Node name, the bit after the @ and before the domain name (ISP's
definition)
I have a static IP address supplied by my ISP.

My understanding of the e-mail address syntax is:

local-part@domain

but there are sub-parts to each part, so they further divided into
(whitespace only added for legibility):

local-part = word *("." word)
domain = subdomain *("." subdomain)

The local-part is often referred to as the username, and could be something
like "joe" or "joe.p.peterson". Usually the domain doesn't get longer than
needed to identify the mailhost although often just the domain is only
specified (because the domain receives the SMTP traffic on it border host
which knows to which mailhost to route that traffic). So the domain portion
might look like "domain.tld" or "host.domain.tld". Typically you end up
with an e-mail address that looks like:

username@[host.]domain[.tld][.cctld]

where username = your account name
host = subdomain or hostname (which may itself be divided into further
subdomains)
domain = your domain's name (Earthlink, Comcast, Yahoo, etc.)
tld = top-level domain (.com, .co, .net, .org, etc.)
cctld = country code TLD (.us, .uk, .ca, .nl, etc.)

E-mail addresses are defined under the mailto: URL scheme in RFC 1738
(ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1738.txt) which refers back to RFC 822
for syntax (ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc822.txt). It can be
daunting to wade through the BNF (Backus-Naur Form) notation to figure out
what the parts of a mailto: URL are called. Might be easier to read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address.

"node" would refer to the the most granular portion of the domain part;
i.e., the identified host or subdomain identified at the left end of the
domain part. This would be the node in their network although it could also
be a subdomain (because a host is inferred by default or may be to a farm of
load-balancing hosts).

Okay, you can wake up now.

Fantastic V, many thanks

The Options button eludes many users because it just isn't intuitive that
Options means to alter the operators in the clause. Glad you got it
working.

 

[Mike Hyndman]

Node name, the bit after the @ and before the domain name (ISP's
definition)
I have a static IP address supplied by my ISP.

My understanding of the e-mail address syntax is:

local-part@domain

but there are sub-parts to each part, so they further divided into
(whitespace only added for legibility):

local-part = word *("." word)
domain = subdomain *("." subdomain)

The local-part is often referred to as the username, and could be
something like "joe" or "joe.p.peterson". Usually the domain doesn't get
longer than needed to identify the mailhost although often just the domain
is only specified (because the domain receives the SMTP traffic on it
border host which knows to which mailhost to route that traffic). So the
domain portion might look like "domain.tld" or "host.domain.tld".
Typically you end up with an e-mail address that looks like:

username@[host.]domain[.tld][.cctld]

where username = your account name
host = subdomain or hostname (which may itself be divided into
further subdomains)
domain = your domain's name (Earthlink, Comcast, Yahoo, etc.)
tld = top-level domain (.com, .co, .net, .org, etc.)
cctld = country code TLD (.us, .uk, .ca, .nl, etc.)

E-mail addresses are defined under the mailto: URL scheme in RFC 1738
(ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1738.txt) which refers back to RFC
822 for syntax (ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc822.txt). It can be
daunting to wade through the BNF (Backus-Naur Form) notation to figure out
what the parts of a mailto: URL are called. Might be easier to read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address.

"node" would refer to the the most granular portion of the domain part;
i.e., the identified host or subdomain identified at the left end of the
domain part. This would be the node in their network although it could
also be a subdomain (because a host is inferred by default or may be to a
farm of load-balancing hosts).

Okay, you can wake up now.

V

;-) A rose by any other...etc.,

I've printed this off for future reference.

Many thanks

Mike H

 

[revencu.diana]

I had good luck with Spam bully from http://www.spambully.com. it's a
very useful tool for Outlook.
filters spam very well.