Yesssss! They shutdown the biggest collection of spam servers in the world, being run by Russian mafia. They estimate 75% of all Internet spam came from two hosting companies, who ignored what was going on. I noticed a HUGE difference in my own email spam. It's down about that percent. Yahoo! http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds...11_spam_down_75_after_isps_shutdown_host.html
Well don't get TOO excited about this because the spam is likely to move to new servers soon. The US can't touch the Russian mafia behind this. There's too much money at stake. To give you and idea of what I have to put up with...:toetap05: My email went from thousands to less than 200 today.
man at least i know wre all the ones tha say help me out with 10 million is from those are the ones that get hacked and turned into spam and they move , i cant belive that spam has become a way for ppl to mislead ppl and to spread crime through the pc that afects every one
Stop using email and you get no spam at all. I only have 1 regular email and only about 5 people know it and in the last 2 years I've gotten less than 10 spam messages and the auto filter caught 9 of them. I never click on a message unless it is from someone that I know I gave my address to. I do remember when I used email a lot and got 10 spams for every real message. As for registering on web sites I have a separate email that I never check unless I sign up for a new site and need to click on the link to finalize the registration. When it stops working I create a new one. Maybe the reason I do it this way is because spam used to drive me nuts.
A company I do IT work for was getting 3000 spam emails a day YES ! PER DAY ! between 8 employees (It was being captured by the firewall and stopped but it was there) Before I took over they were getting 7000 a day. I know from the firewall logs the exact second they switched them off because. after it happened that same company I work for now gets 30 spam mails a day
consider switching over to a gmail account, their spam filtering is amazing. Mine is all "marked as read" so I never see any of it, but if I bother to click on the Spam folder, it has thousands of messages in it. I simply never see any of it.
Agreed I love using gmail always filters out the spam and only fails a few times. Easy delete all for spam button too!
I'm getting really fed up with the e mails from people who claim to be "big buissness" and want me to wire them money. Or from people who say they have all this money that was left behind by some dead asshole and they need someone to inherit it. Yahoo is also pissing me off, spam protection my ass.