How do I prevent email spoofing?

Answer 1

You can't. By deffinition it's not happening on your machine.

Email spoofing is when somebody pretends to be you. Many viruses do this today to trick the victim into opening the email since they think it is from somebody they know. The way it typically works is that the virus will read the address book of the machine it infects and use that address book to spoof (pretend to be that person) by altering the from line of the outgoing email.

Another common spoofing technique is spammers using email addys they have purchased or otherwise gathered through means like web spiders. They then send out the email using spoofed addies to make it more difficult to detect that it is spam and to try to trick people into opening the email. The logic does fail me. Somebody who lied to me about who they are is not somebody I'd even think about doing business with. They do it however.

The best protection against spoofing right now is to not be in any address books, to not give your email addy to places which sell them and to not use your email addy as login to anon sites. Not sure if there is a way to not do this with IE but with Firefox it's easy to configure this. What spammer sites sometimes do is use this variable to gather email addies. Doesn't have to be a site you actually visited. If the adds on that site are html they can use hidden script in the add html or in other spam to harvest your email addy.

The IP6 protocol is supposed to have much better validation protocols which will make spoofing far more difficult to accomplish. Realistically putting spammers out of business is the top priority. Plain and simple NEVER EVER EVER buy something from a spam email. If you did not sign up or agree to recieve the advertisments do not buy it. Do not even visit the site. Spammers get paid on hits. Most spam is garbage anyway.

Second until Microsoft fixes it's huge security problems viruses will continue to use Outbreak (Outlook's nickname in security circles) to propigate email viruses. So don't use Outbreak until they do fix those problems if you can possible avoid it. Thunderbird for example is a more sturdy email client. Eudora and a dozen other email clients are not so prone to virus infections.

The biggest problem with spoofing is that many companies still use White and Black lists. If your email addy is black listed because some spammer or virus spoofed your email that means you the legit owner of that addy cannot email people there. Some spammer or virus writer got you cut off. At times large ISPs have caused massive havoc with such lists. Simply put the real solution is get rid of Outlook and if nobody bought things from spammers then there would be no economic incentive to spam.

Answer 2

Simple: Google spoofstick or Core Street and download their free program that loads a toolbar that will tell you exactly what URl (site) you are own. When you click on a site - look at the spoofstick toolbar - and you will know if it's legitimate. For example if you get some spoofed "PayPal" or E-Bay mail, and then click on the link in the e-mail...the toolbar will show something other than PayPal or E-bay. Simple and sweet.

Answer 3

How can I prevent phone spoofing.

Answer 4

are you referring on your yahoo e mail account or your guy or woman very own e mail??? despite if it rather is yahoo in basic terms block absolutely everyone from emailing to you on your solutions, you would be able to could substitute e mail addresses to do away with it and despite if it is your guy or woman very own one, telephone your server you could have the flexibility to get them to block spamming different than human beings you have on your handle e book additionally get into the habit in case you have been on your laptop to run your disc sparkling and each few days bypass in on your internet ideas and delete all your cookies and records do away with the spyware, i additionally run secret agent bot plenty that alternatives up somewhat some issues that have latched directly to my laptop

Answer 5

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