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Root user emails ? ? ? ?
diggerman123
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i am getting 50 / 60 emails a day from "root user" all identical. I havent opened any but am getting fed up of deleting them. what are they and how would i stop them.any help appreciated. thanks
we all have bad days , some more than others ..................
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You should be able to set a filter to prevent them. The way this is done varies with your email client.Try saying "I have under-a-pound in my wallet" and listen to people react!0
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have filtered them straight to trash , but what are they ? root user sounds a bit dodgy to me. should i be worried about them ?we all have bad days , some more than others ..................0
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I don't know what they are. Can you run a virus scan on your trash folder?Try saying "I have under-a-pound in my wallet" and listen to people react!0
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thanks taffy i will try that .we all have bad days , some more than others ..................0
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Which email client are you using, you can possibly get more info from the message header4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed dec 24 @ 5.74 tracker again+ Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy0
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"root" is the name of the standard administrator account on a Unix system so it sounds like they are coming from a Unix or Linux machine. Emails will sometimes be sent from "root user".
What OS are you running? Do you have any Linux machines?It's my problem, it's my problem
If I feel the need to hide
And it's my problem if I have no friends
And feel I want to die0 -
bill i run windows xp and no linux machines. yahoo mailwe all have bad days , some more than others ..................0
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diggerman123 wrote: »bill i run windows xp and no linux machines. yahoo mail
No idea the, I'd set up a filter to bin them.It's my problem, it's my problem
If I feel the need to hide
And it's my problem if I have no friends
And feel I want to die0 -
diggerman123 wrote: »bill i run windows xp and no linux machines. yahoo mail
Linux is irrelevant here. The From: address is always forged and for all we know the mails could be coming from a tumble dryer running Windows 3.1,0 -
diggerman123 wrote: »i am getting 50 / 60 emails a day from "root user" all identical. I havent opened any but am getting fed up of deleting them. what are they and how would i stop them.any help appreciated. thanks
No help from me unfortunately but just to say I keep getting these too! A big batch of them come at once, very annoying. :mad:Money, money, money, must be funny, in the rich man's World!0
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