Have Marked a Mail as Spam on my Mailbox with Norton. Why Does It Keep Coming Back?

Answer 1

Unfortunatly, spam is hard to get rid of without increasing your security settings to 'High' so that only those in your address book can email you. This is easy to do, just go to your settings>security.

By marking the email as spam, the servers it came from (it is directed through several servers before reaching you) may be blocked from sending you mail, but then the spammers justs end it through different servers.

You can block the sender, but as you have probably noticed before, they change a letter in the name, add a space, add random characters ets to fool the filter, so this rarely works either.

A good thing to do is to sign up to spamcop.net and then you can easily forward spam to them. The addresses and servers involved in deliverying the spam can be alerted so they can block the sender, the sender can be blocked from eamil servers and Norton can block them too. The change is not instant, but I have been doing this and it helps.

To reduce the spam you get in the first place, when you add your email address to a forum or anything where it is visible to the public, then mung it, i.e. add characters to it so that a program will not realise it is fake, but others can. for example my.email@%%%.hotmail.com Ppl can work out to leave the %%%. out of your email address, thugh a program that sifts through these sites for email addresses cannot.

Just keep reporting the spam, report it to spam cop and your ISP, increase security settings, mung your email address and hopefully the probably should decrease.

Answer 2

because norton is shite.

get AVG Free or summert.


i think McAfee is good

and sophos is the best


all the schools round here use it

and the council

Answer 3

u did not block the sender... block it