Posted by NikkiT2 on February 3, 2004, at 9:26:24
In reply to Calling computer Gee..um, Hack....um, Experts...:), posted by shar on February 3, 2004, at 0:44:01
Right, firstly..
The reason you are getting so many could very well be because you are clicking the "opt out" link.. this lets the spammers know that you are indeed recieiving the emails, and thus they send you more!!
Never ever try and opt out of spam.. it always makes you get more!!Also, these people get your email address from sites you have signed up to, or posted your email address to. Thats why you see alot of us posting our email addresses long hand (eg, using at instead of @ and dot instead of . ) as then the web crawlers that search sites for email addresses can't pick this up.
Getting spam has nothing to do with being hacked, I can assure you of that!
I don't use outlook (for security reasons as I don't trust it enough!!), but at Hotmail you can set your account so that you only receive emails in your inbox from people you have told hotmail you want emails from (eg, those in your address book).. everything else goes into my junk mail folder which I canm double check for anything that looks like it might be spam.
One thing I would reccomend though.. do not open anything that looks like it might be spam as this can also send a message back to the origintaing company telling them you are looking at the emails, and thus you will end up with more!
Unfortunately, ist virtually impossible to be spam free. I have one acount that I have never given out on the internet, or signed up for anything with, and thats spam free.. But thats not a very practical way to live *l*
There is software out there that will check your email for you before it enters your outlook account.. Its not perfect, and you do have to check that software to tell it whether or not you want something let through (but you can set up rules for letting certain stuff through automatically)
Let me know if you want more info on that.Spam is annoying.. but as a rule thats all it is.. so I wouldn't panic!!
Nikki xx
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