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Is there any way to stop Bulk Mail. Everyday I get 20-30 and I delete before I open them. Are they taking up space in my hardrive??

2006-12-29 14:26:41 · 3 answers · asked by Buck 5 in Computers & Internet Other - Computers

How do people get my email address?

2006-12-29 14:28:11 · update #1

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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. This can help you avoid registering with any sites that are known to spam people.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/

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!

2006-12-29 14:29:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

1st you can try contacting you internet provider and see if they can do anything for you. 2nd spam that goes into your regular bulk mail does not count against your regular email. Yes anything sent recieved and sites visited will be in your system memory unles permanently removed. Regular delete will not do it. Normal delete function will change the file name or other characteristic of that file so when and if the computer goes looking for it it will not find it. There is however software that can recover normal deleted files and restore them if needed, Also there is software that will display name and address of programs or files and will block any and further attempts at comming back. If you are cocerned about privacy this may be what you may want to look into.

2006-12-29 22:49:21 · answer #2 · answered by meander 3 · 0 0

Bulk mail is not on your hard drive. Don't open them, they're spam.

Mostly, if you post your email address anywhere, yahoo, ANYWHERE, it's not yahoo's fault. Some ad companies send bots all over the internet which send mail to whichever email address link they find.

2006-12-29 22:29:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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