On 26/03/2014 4:55 PM, wstjs@aol.com wrote: > Lately I have been receiving an enormous amount of spam emails. Just this evening I had 16 spam emails and this has been going on all day. AOL allows me to put their addresses in a folder and they can delete the spam without me seeing it if I choose. I chose to do that but these spammers keep changing their email addresses and just continue to send spam with a similar but different email address. > > > Before this began lately I received very few spam. Has anyone had this same problem with a sudden increase of spam and no way to really stop them except to continue to delete them. I also send them to spam but they continue to come. I have been averaging 30 to 40 a day lately. > > > Janet > > ******************** > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > When I had this problem a few years ago I used a progrm called mailwasher pro (came from a New Zealand company. It looks for clues in the email body to determine if the email is spam. I you wish it can send a messae back to the originator sayin the your e-mail address is invalid. I no longer use the program since I don 't get many spam mails, although they do seem to be on the increas. My biggest problem is with popups from sites like e-bay. Firefox seems unable to block them. FRegards Peter oggin
I was getting more and annoying pop ups before this problem with spams began. The pop ups are a little better now but still get them and very annoying if I am in the midst of writing something important. Janet -----Original Message----- From: Peter Goggin <petergoggin@bigpond.com> To: gen-newbie <gen-newbie@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Mar 26, 2014 3:20 am Subject: Re: [GN] off subject, hope no one minds (Spam e-mails and popups) On 26/03/2014 4:55 PM, wstjs@aol.com wrote: > Lately I have been receiving an enormous amount of spam emails. Just this evening I had 16 spam emails and this has been going on all day. AOL allows me to put their addresses in a folder and they can delete the spam without me seeing it if I choose. I chose to do that but these spammers keep changing their email addresses and just continue to send spam with a similar but different email address. > > > Before this began lately I received very few spam. Has anyone had this same problem with a sudden increase of spam and no way to really stop them except to continue to delete them. I also send them to spam but they continue to come. I have been averaging 30 to 40 a day lately. > > > Janet > > ******************** > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > When I had this problem a few years ago I used a progrm called mailwasher pro (came from a New Zealand company. It looks for clues in the email body to determine if the email is spam. I you wish it can send a messae back to the originator sayin the your e-mail address is invalid. I no longer use the program since I don 't get many spam mails, although they do seem to be on the increas. My biggest problem is with popups from sites like e-bay. Firefox seems unable to block them. FRegards Peter oggin ******************** Gen-Newbie's website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message