If you got a lot of unnecessary spam in your mail boxes would you trace the hackers or blame your ISP.?

Question

I have been getting a lot of junk mail in my boxes even though i run my virus scanner regulary.

Answer 1

Spam is not a virus...its junk mail. Many places sell email address. They hope that you will be the one in a million that acts on it. Most email programs (like outlook) have a way for you to block them but the only problem is that they change the sender info all the time. Try using key words to block them(if your able). Like Free, Viagara, Sex, Girls. Everytime those words show up in the subject line it goes in the trash.

Answer 2

You blame yourself. The computer is inanimate and does only what it is told to do whether or not it is in error.

As for SPAM, if it is in your inbox, click in the box preceding the sender, then click the SPAM button. It will be blocked from your address.

If it goes into bulk, in Options, General Preferences, set the display messages to about 25. Then you can quickly scan the senders to ensure there is nothing there you want, click the "check all" button, then click "delete." Gone with two mouse clicks.

Answer 3

Honey, virus trackers don't track spam. They track viruses. Spam filters do an okay job with getting rid of spam; but the race is on to see if one can completely obliterate it; and no one has yet! That is the answer we are all looking for. To respond to spam means you will get more of it. You can buy an anti-spam program in addition to the one that may already be on your computer; but chances are it will not get rid of it all.

Answer 4

Neither, there's no point. Just dump it unopened in your spam folder.

It's nothing to do with a virus, your address is out there somewhere from a site you visited. Never respond or acknowledge, including asking to be unsubscribed, that just confirms your address as valid & you'll get more!

Answer 5

As long as data bases are kept online there will be spam. It is a very profitable business. Or it must be because I do not know anybody that does it. Someone sure wants to me to have an erection and watch my interest rates!

Answer 6

all of us get direct mail to our inbox. especially situations thank you to a lot. although don't be tempted to click on that Unsubscribe button. All that does is make particular your email handle and which you opened it. they have not any objective on removing your email from their record. merely click on the direct mail button. that's truly helpful to tighten up your direct mail filters as properly. additionally evaluate springing up a email account which you utilize to enroll in issues, or want a email to substantiate some thing. a number of the time that style of element get a email sent on your account remarkable away and you're able to be looking out for it. Bots circulate slowly everywhere in the information superhighway, boards, or the different place you're able to put in your email handle, merely searching for addresses to deliver direct mail to.

Answer 7

id just mark it all as spam and ignore it, i use 2 email addresses, the one i use on here and for when i have to sign up for something that i never check unless i know theres something i want on its way and another just for personal use, that way my main mail box never, and really i mean never gets spam mail

Answer 8

I,d blame you for answering the spam, and letting them know
they had a live fish on the line.

Answer 9

It is hardly hacking!! Be careful to whom or what you give your email address to.

Answer 10

Hacking?
It's junk mail.
Mark it as such and move on.