2006-08-07 13:52:36 · 7 answers · asked by Cathy B 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Those are a pain no mater the name or email you use
2006-08-07 13:56:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 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 unscrupulous 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!
2006-08-07 22:47:44 · answer #2 · answered by jibberjabbar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO..Yahoo has a filter and you will have to turn the filter ON, this will protect and filter your mail. Mail that you don't want to recieve, the filter will catch it and hold it for 10 days, after 10 days it is automatic deleted...You can also add the unwanted mail to the BLOCK sender list and that way you will not receive any unwanted mail any more..
2006-08-07 21:19:47 · answer #3 · answered by foxefire_120032000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You set your e-mail to delete bulk mail on a daily basis.That what I do and I never see them.
2006-08-07 21:40:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
bulks.......... i hate them!! i dont have any but my other email does!! it suks. and by the way it wont go away cuz u already gave them your email!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and all of those are mostly from these advertisments am i right?
2006-08-07 20:58:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
delet them right away some have viruses on them that could harm the computer
2006-08-07 21:05:31 · answer #6 · answered by Inugurl3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Don't even look at them.
2006-08-07 20:58:11 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋