Spam on Yahoo.

espresso

heatherw_01 wrote:

PC is and always has been fully protected.

With what?

heatherw_01

Anti-virus, firwall, router firewall, anti-spyware, spam filter on my pc

Not that it matters as it is webmail so having protection wouldn't matter?

Anyway, not bothered as I am used to it now and will have to put up with it.

mrJ_5

i would not be suprised if the email address was not one of the 'standard ones' - to get spam almost straight away

by standard, I mean something like david1234@whatevertheprovideris.com - instead of something more customised, like david_smith_1975@whatevertheprovideris.com

mrJ_5

heatherw_01 wrote:

Not that it matters as it is webmail so having protection wouldn't matter?

a key logger could send the email address, once typed, to a spam harvester and thus start churning out the spam

espresso

mrJ wrote:

i would not be suprised if the email address was not one of the 'standard ones' - to get spam almost straight away

by standard, I mean something like david1234@whatevertheprovideris.com - instead of something more customised, like david_smith_1975@whatevertheprovideris.com

Think that you are spot on mrJ. Users should think very hard when creating a new e-mail account and the account name just like a password, should not be a name or anything that is easy to guess! My old Yahoo account that does not get spam, has a very unusual name that would take years to crack by a bot.

That is unless you are partial to lots of :spam:

:eek:

retsbed

LongDongDave wrote:

They're both !!!!!!, i used to use them...now with gmail and hardly any spam (perhaps one every couple of weeks).

I get about 25 spam messages a day on gmail....

hurrah

espresso wrote:

That is unless you are partial to lots of :spam:

I do love "Luncheon Meat".

retsbed

hurrah wrote:

I do love "Luncheon Meat".

Speaking of which...it's time for lunch!!! :j

christie_m

Pretty much everyone is being hammered by spam at the moment - there's been a detected increase over the past 4-8 weeks or so. The Spammers have changed techniques to evade detection by the current breed of anti-spam solutions.

The new techniques are wide and varied, but are based on the use of images to display the usual text about pills, creams, adult sites and make you rich in two days!

Unfortunately the battle against spam is a game of cat and mouse. I wish Bill Gates' comments back in 2004(?) had come true.

A_Nice_Englishman

My Yahoo email does reciieve lots of spam but it just goes into the spam folder and I ignore it. Are people saying significant amounts of spam is getting into their Yahoo Inboxes?