5000 spam e-mails per day!
Discussion
On average that's the number I'm getting and it's starting to piss me off. It's been going on for 3 or 4 months now and even with OE rules set up to filter most of the crap out, I've still got to download them.
I've just been away for 3 days and come back to over 20000 of the things.
Does anyone here use a good ISP with a front end spam filter (assuming this would help my problem) or have any suggestions as to what I can do??
I've tried various spam filters but due to lack of techie PC brains they dont seem to work very well.
Please Please help!!
Dave
I've just been away for 3 days and come back to over 20000 of the things.
Does anyone here use a good ISP with a front end spam filter (assuming this would help my problem) or have any suggestions as to what I can do??
I've tried various spam filters but due to lack of techie PC brains they dont seem to work very well.
Please Please help!!
Dave
You haven't got a website with your email address on it by any chance?
If the website designer didn't take the correct steps to 'disguise' the email addresses, then you are fair game for the spammers...
Its the massisve downside of the internet - and short of paying big cashola for internal sam filtering, then you are a bit buggered...
If the website designer didn't take the correct steps to 'disguise' the email addresses, then you are fair game for the spammers...
Its the massisve downside of the internet - and short of paying big cashola for internal sam filtering, then you are a bit buggered...
From a quick glance at your web site, you've broken the number 1 rule: never use "mailto:" links.
Spammers use programs that can automatically and very quickly scan your web pages for the "mailto" tag and obtain your email address. Adding it to the databases for automatic mailers.
Get rid of it ASAP. Use an online form or some other method by which the public can contact you. Whoever did your website should be able to come up with an alternative.
Unfortunately, this might be shutting the gate after the horse has bolted given the sheer volume of mails you're getting.
Spammers use programs that can automatically and very quickly scan your web pages for the "mailto" tag and obtain your email address. Adding it to the databases for automatic mailers.
Get rid of it ASAP. Use an online form or some other method by which the public can contact you. Whoever did your website should be able to come up with an alternative.
Unfortunately, this might be shutting the gate after the horse has bolted given the sheer volume of mails you're getting.
Slapmatt,
What's a catch-all? and how do I look for it?
Neil,
Yes my website has a help@d-comm.com address on it. The website designer has dropped off the radar and has left me with no detail whatsoever.
If the only way to avoid these e-mails is to have the bewsite redesigned then so be it, though if someone can 'break' in to it I'd be will ing to discuss it.
Dave
What's a catch-all? and how do I look for it?
Neil,
Yes my website has a help@d-comm.com address on it. The website designer has dropped off the radar and has left me with no detail whatsoever.
If the only way to avoid these e-mails is to have the bewsite redesigned then so be it, though if someone can 'break' in to it I'd be will ing to discuss it.
Dave
Hi,
I use netaddress - they have very good spam and virus at the front-end. Reasonable pricing, great web access and never had any QoS issues in 8+ years of using them.
You can configure it to collect mail for you from elsewhere if you like or, if your email allows, forward on to them. Both web and POP3 access.
I use netaddress - they have very good spam and virus at the front-end. Reasonable pricing, great web access and never had any QoS issues in 8+ years of using them.
You can configure it to collect mail for you from elsewhere if you like or, if your email allows, forward on to them. Both web and POP3 access.
You could have a look at www.maildefender.net and see if it suits your needs. Basically they accept your mail and filter out the crap/viruses before it gets delivered to you.
If its a business address it may be worth re-directing all your mail through message labs. this filters most things, spam/ viruses etc, and also has loads of other features
its not cheap but we do sell the service to quite a few even fairly small companies..
if you want more info pm me...
G
its not cheap but we do sell the service to quite a few even fairly small companies..
if you want more info pm me...
G
Patrick's Dad said:
Slapmatt,
What's a catch-all? and how do I look for it?
Within your mailbox settings there is an option to "catch all" and this will redirect any mail sent to blahblah@yourdomain.com to a proper email address that you use, like help@ or dave@. This is great in theory, but a spam nightmare in reality.
OK.
I utterly hate the evil spammers and am on a mission to get people to tighten up their anti-spam measures!
If you have a website and want a mailto: link on it its best to disguise it. Done easily by a competent website designer - but many forget if not specifically asked to do so. Its not a great sin - but it IS worth doing to prevent the evil spammers spiders from nabbing your e-mail address off and attacking it with crap.
This guy is full of himself but his little tool does work:
www.jracademy.com/~jtucek/email/index.php
Secondly. If you run your own e-mail server buy Symantec Brightmail. It ROCKS! And will successfully eat up the spam before you even see it. A tiny percentage of crud still comes through - like out of 5000 a day maybe 5.
If you do not run your own e-mail server change to an ISP or hosting company that offers server-side anti-spam. Like Demon Internet for example. They use...Symantec Brightmail...
If you need to deal with this yourself I use McAfee Spamkiller. Yes you still download the crap. But it eats it up as it arrives so you don't have to go through it. Its not ideal. But it helps.
DO something now...because it won't stop by itself.
I utterly hate the evil spammers and am on a mission to get people to tighten up their anti-spam measures!
If you have a website and want a mailto: link on it its best to disguise it. Done easily by a competent website designer - but many forget if not specifically asked to do so. Its not a great sin - but it IS worth doing to prevent the evil spammers spiders from nabbing your e-mail address off and attacking it with crap.
This guy is full of himself but his little tool does work:
www.jracademy.com/~jtucek/email/index.php
Secondly. If you run your own e-mail server buy Symantec Brightmail. It ROCKS! And will successfully eat up the spam before you even see it. A tiny percentage of crud still comes through - like out of 5000 a day maybe 5.
If you do not run your own e-mail server change to an ISP or hosting company that offers server-side anti-spam. Like Demon Internet for example. They use...Symantec Brightmail...
If you need to deal with this yourself I use McAfee Spamkiller. Yes you still download the crap. But it eats it up as it arrives so you don't have to go through it. Its not ideal. But it helps.
DO something now...because it won't stop by itself.
Don said:
Secondly. If you run your own e-mail server buy Symantec Brightmail. It ROCKS! And will successfully eat up the spam before you even see it. A tiny percentage of crud still comes through - like out of 5000 a day maybe 5.
Netaddress use this on their servers and it really does rock, of the 80-120 spams that hit my account daily maybe 2 get through.
Patrick's Dad said:
...with OE rules set up to filter most of the crap out, I've still got to download them.Dave
In the rules setting for OE, if you select 'Delete it from server', then you never actually download the email. I have this set on mine to filter out all the Far East spam I seem to get with strange characters in the subject line.
Be warned though, once deleted, you can not get them back!
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