2006-07-19 15:43:27 · 10 answers · asked by grey 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
SPAM = Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages
what else can they do, but annoy you?
In e-mails it's like telemarketers calling you when you dont' want them!!! It only wastes your time. SPAM is SPAM... nobody wants it nor needs it.
2006-07-19 15:47:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Once your email address is on a spammers list it is almost impossible to get off. Right now, your e-mail address (along with millions of others) is on a CD being sold from the back rooms of software shops from Bangladesh to Botswanna and from Norway to the Netherlands.
However there are several things that you can do to prevent even more spam.
1. Start by removing your e-mail address from your Yahoo profile,if it is on it. The spam-industry has programs that are continusously crawling the web looking for the "@" symbol which is a sure sign the the word before it and the domain name after it is an e-mail address!
2. Use a longer address. The spam industry uses programs that try sending e-mail to all known domain names. Example: a program might start trying to send out e-mails to everyone starting with aaaaa@INVALID.com and continue down to zzzzz@INVALID.com. Using a longer e-mail address will make this harder to do.
3. Never click the "Unsubscribe Link" in any e-mail. This will only confirm to the spammers that your e-mail address is indeed real and that you are reading their garbage. In fact, do not even open any e-mail from anybody you don't know or trust. Many spams are not only annoying but contain viruses of other malware. Just delete 'em without opening 'em!.
You can however click that "Unsubscribe Me" button from businesses that are well known and that you trust. Walmart... yes. Someone selling Viagra...no.
4. Open up a second e-mail account. Whenever, a website requires you to register using your e mail address, use this secondary address. There are many unscroupoulios websites that will sell you address to others or bombard you with spam themselves.
5. Download a free copy of SiteAdvisor. SiteAdvisor will alert you when you search (Google, Yahoo, MSN, search only) of websites that are known to send out spam.
Treat your e-mail address just like you would your telephone number or home address....only give it out to those that you absolutely trust!
2006-07-19 16:19:58 · answer #2 · answered by jibberjabbar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Its junk which fills your mail box.
2. May have hidden virus scripts or trojans embed in it
3. Eats away your bandwidth
4. Can use your address book and try to send them mails on your behalf if it get successful in infecting your PC...
2006-07-19 15:47:54 · answer #3 · answered by AreAce 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really "bugs" you, figuratively and literally; because, spam mail is [a] irritating and [b] it's the hackers' tool to infect your computer with viruses and worms!
2006-07-19 15:46:40 · answer #4 · answered by Matt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The non-stick cooking spray?
2006-07-19 15:46:45 · answer #5 · answered by Flower Girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It fills up your emails with junk and virus is possible
2006-07-19 16:16:15 · answer #6 · answered by Giggles 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah it is just a mail which 'could contains virises . and irritate u
2006-07-19 15:52:35 · answer #7 · answered by pickut2001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GIves you detail of something that doesnt exist
2006-07-19 15:46:03 · answer #8 · answered by nuwanusa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a kind of email send to anoy you to give you there info for example whats your name whats your name whats your name whats your name what your name what your name whats your name whats your name and so on...
2006-07-19 15:47:42 · answer #9 · answered by hockey pro 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is email that tries to get you to buy something
or something that wants to pretend that it is your bank
2006-07-19 15:45:11 · answer #10 · answered by livingforjesus231 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋