More than 97% of all e-mails sent over the net are unwanted, according to a Microsoft security report.
The e-mails are dominated by spam adverts for drugs, and general product pitches and often have malicious attachments.
The report found that the global ratio of infected machines was 8.6 for every 1,000 uninfected machines.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7988579.stm
I have 3 email accounts.gmail,hotmail,and yahoo. gmail is the worst when it comes to spam email
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I have many email accounts. For me, gmail has been the best.
At work I have many email aliases. I just recently started getting a lot of spam to just one alias. Come to find out a company sold my info, they were the only ones that had this email address. Needless to say their CEO was a little miffed after I stopped a $50K deal from going through. I told them they can no long have our business based on them breaking their own privacy policy not to give or sell client info to a 3rd party.
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it's hard for me to pinpoint who's responsible .I gave my email to may companies from Credit cards,banks,utilities
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Originally Posted by stiltman"Shut up Wesley!" -- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
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Originally Posted by gadgetguy
BTW, these are not net email account, but accounts specific to our domains and the MX records are controlled by us. Never compare that to hotmail/yahoo. -
I use a regular email program, PocoMail, not a webmail service. I use my ISP's server. I can adjust my spam filters in quite a few ways and block most all of it, so no problems.
I use one email address for friends and trusted people and another for mail order and most everything else. If the mail order one gets over spammed, I delete it and use one of my four or five back up addresses. I keep a list of the sites I use my email addresses with, so not too bad to update them all. I also only give out my email to companies or sites that really need it.
I have very rarely got random spam email. But that may be because I don't use webmail. -
My mistake, I blended your "Many email addresses, ... gmail has been the best" with the rest of your story.
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Originally Posted by gadgetguy
Man, you should see my oldest hotmail account, its got to be 7 years now. Talk about spam
I only use it now as a spam honey pot. You know, you need to fillout a form to get access to a site or resources. -
Believe it or not, I use Outlook's junk mail filter and it works remarkably well. I get a boat load in my enosoft.net account for obvious reasons. My other accounts are reasonably free of spam. I've had my oldest account since 1993, use it heavily and get virtually no spam because I don't publicize it.
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I've got 5 email addresses (webmail based) that I access from home via Outlook.
Almost never get any spam.
The vast majority of my email is auto-notifications from forum threads... Still only getting about 10 emails a day.
You get what you ask for, and when you type your email address into any old site you come across you'd better expect to get spammed in return.
Just from clicking on user names in this thread I now know that GadgetGuys name is Eric and I have his email address."To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research." - Steven Wright
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Hotmail has always been the worst for unsolicted emails. My gmail accounts gets very little spam, and it is always tagged. My ISP filters for spam, and does a pretty good job. I also use Mail Washer pro on my home account, which lets me see what is on the server, and delete it without downloading it. Mostly I use it to get rid of crap my wife has subscribed to.
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Originally Posted by guns1inger"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research." - Steven Wright
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I can create and manage filters for my ISP's spam filter. It also tells me when it is with-holding emails so I can check them before deleting or recieving them. It has a retention period of 14 days for all "possibly spam but not definite enough to delete" emails.
Read my blog here.
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Gmail has one of the best email junk filtering, and it's called Postini
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my half dozen hotmail throw away accounts are all set up to only allow pre-approved addresses through. no spam gets to thunderbird which collects my mail from all sources into one inbox. i check the filtered spam boxes at hotmail once a week to make sure i didn't make a mistake and not allow real mail through. without the hotmail filtering i'd have hundreds of spam mails a day, it's just absurd the amount of medical "enhancements" they offer, "please grope me" requests, give us your personal financial and password scams and how many "help me import" money schemes there are. i can't believe anyone is dopey enough to fall for any of them.
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I use my server email only for ebay & my gmail acct. for craigslist stuff. I have several hotmail accts. that I use for specific people & different forums. I've had my primary hotmail acct. for a long time and have had good luck without having spam mail. I use it for my online ordering. When I have a friend/relative that sends me forwarded crap from others I add them to the block senders list!
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