Originally Posted By amazedncal2 I've been getting up to 10 emails a day with the subject of "near general far" or "game auto maybe", all are very non sensical. I of course, "spam" them all but instead of getting less I get more. I have Comcast and they are only on one of my e mail addresses. Does anyone know what these are and where they come from?
Originally Posted By peeaanuut usually poorly translated from a foreign language. Thunderbird filters them out automatically. I get about 200 spam msgs a day on 1 account.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer You're a tbird user, peeaanuut? Me too - I think it's great at handling spam.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut oh yes, I love thunderbird!!! I installed the calendar plug-in for it but it doesnt work right (Still alpha for 1.5). But working great in firefox. So far the combination of those 2 have been excellent.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Wow, 200 a day, that would drive me nuts. Will Thunderbird work on a mac? I'm thinking that if the number of emails are growing by the week, I should do something about it now.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut I believe there is a version for the mac OS. <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/" target="_blank">http://www.mozilla.com/thunder bird/</a> Click on "other systems & languages"
Originally Posted By LuLu amazed, do you use Mac Mail? I used to get dozens of spam mails a day, and now I get only a few a week. It's fantastic!
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger If the content of the emails is really nonsense, then it probably means that someone is testing the mail server using brute force. They just generate random email addresses @comcast.com and send email to it. If the server doesn't reject the email, then they know they've found a valid email address for future spamming. The emails could also be a virus attack attempting to take advantage of some kind of formatting bug (most likely targeted at Windows).
Originally Posted By trailsend Help ~ I think I am being attacked right now. Since yesterday, I am receiving the same 4 emails from my supervisor with attachments that my hotmail shows me contains a virus. I have received about 50 of these same 4 emails since yesterday. They are all from my supervisor, who, I need to communicate from. She does not have a clue as to what is happening. What to do??
Originally Posted By trailsend BTW ~ I, of course, did not open the attachemnt. But how can we get them to stop coming into my inbox??
Originally Posted By peeaanuut you can block them at the server if you have access. You can filter it out. But if you dont have much server access really the best way is to filter and delete.
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger Tell your supervisor to disconnect her computer from the network! It sounds like it's been infected and is now trying to infect other computers.
Originally Posted By trailsend thank you! I did block ~ so we'll see what Tech Support comes up with from the company.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Thank you for the link peeaanuut Lulu, I haven't used my mac mail because I had the comcast address already set up. I'm considering deleting that address so a switch to mac mail now might be a good idea Crouching Tigger, thank you for your thoughts. I'll be sure not to open anything when I don't know who the sender is.
Originally Posted By LuLu Amazed, I'm just talking about the software, not mac.com as an email address. Altho I'm wondering if my domain server is the cause of the incredibly improved spam filtering. I'm not really sure!
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 So Mac Mail is software I can get? LOL, today I got one that says "abalone" and another that says "moon", I think they are getting tired
