SPAM

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Trevor Smith

Hello
I am being overwhelmed with spam messages. Can you let me know how to
prevent them arriving on my computer.
Thanks
Trevor Smith
 
Hi Trevor,

If by chance you are meaning from the Messenger Service:

You need to turn of networking on your internet connection. You do this by
either disabling NetBIOS over TCP/IP or turn on the firewall.

To disable the Messenger Service:

Go to Start/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services. Double click the
Messenger Service and change Automatic to Disabled, then click the Stop
button.

Or use this automated edit:

Disable Messenger Service (Line 95)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Home PC Firewall Guide
http://www.firewallguide.com/

More information and options here on using a Firewall:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_m.htm#ms

/top10faqs.htm
 
....or if you mean email spam, there is little we can do to help you, contact
your ISP as it has nothing ot do with MS Windows, and if the letter claims
it does, and tells you to install an attached update, do not do it!! The
update is really a worm/virus and the email does not originate from
Microsoft. Go to this Microsoft Security page to find out how to tell real
MS emails from fake ones:

http://tinyurl.com/omxu

You can use rules in programs like outlook express that recieve your mail in
order to attempt to block the messages, but your best bet is paying the
money for proper spam filters, do a search on www.google.com for "spam
filters" (without the quotation marks).

Otherwise, to set up rules in outlook express go to Tools>Message Rules>Mail
and add the rules. Look for certain keywords in the subject lines, but don't
be too general as you may end up blocking messages you actually want. The
best thing to do it have the rule mark the messages as read, colour them a
certain colour and move them to a spam folder or your deleted items box,
that way you can periodically check the messages to make sure there is
nothing legitimate.
 
Greetings --

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 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)."

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. (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, add any spammers to your Blocked Senders
list, so the their messages are automatically deleted from the server
without being downloaded to your PC.


Bruce Chambers

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