2006-09-12 21:23:53 · 7 answers · asked by Quentin 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
get a new email address.... and dont use that email address when youre searching for porn!!!
2006-09-12 21:26:27 · answer #1 · answered by JRsOPINION 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firstly, use a good firewall and a good password to prevent them getting there. Secondly, I take it you have your email listed on your web page. Use HTML to set it so that something else is displayed instead of your email address. For example:
contact me
This is obviously an imaginary email address but all that will be displayed on the web page is "contact me". You could also use an image here. This is why, when browsing through many web pages, you will see rotating envelopes or mail boxes instead of an email address. It is not just to look pretty but is also a security measure against spammers/hackers.
2006-09-13 04:33:36 · answer #2 · answered by Nigel B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can't stop people doing things! If you could, the police, courts and trading standards would be out of a job and no-one would do anything they weren't supposed to!
In addition to all your other security measures (firewall, change your passwords regularly, keep your pc free of trojans so you don't spread them) you have to add security to your site.
Spambots are automated programs that trawl the web looking for e-mail addresses, so change your address and don't post the new one! In addition to the other suggestions you can show the address as a graphic.
But nothings foolproof and ultimately all you can do is discard the address regularly and replace it.
2006-09-13 04:43:38 · answer #3 · answered by sarah c 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
impossible to do so - all e-mail addresses (sender and addressee) are generated at random by the spam-generators. Sometimes this is even obvious, when the program is not working properly and you get spam from %NAME@%DOMAIN,COM - clearly the variables not entered correctly, or rf3454ty4g@434033edew.com - clearly a randomly created address. Heck, my mailserver blocks thousands of mails a day sent to and from not-existing addresses...
2006-09-13 04:32:41 · answer #4 · answered by Walter W. Krijthe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I talked to my web site's host company how I could stop the same but all they said was there is really nothing they could do because it is a very easy scam to pull.
2006-09-13 04:27:09 · answer #5 · answered by Raj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately there is nothing you can do about this. Spoofing the From: e-mail address is trivial to do and they don't even need access to your mail server to do so...
2006-09-13 04:29:06 · answer #6 · answered by John K 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-09-16 19:16:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋