Viagra Emails through Hotmail!?

All of a sudden I start getting Viagra emails through my Hotmail account - WTH? I'm getting things with subjects like "Super Discounts" from Kerri@Viagra.com. How hard is it to filter that!? I mean, come on, how much more blatant could it be!?

Oh well.

jsampsonPC wrote:

All of a sudden I start getting Viagra emails through my Hotmail account - WTH? I'm getting things with subjects like "Super Discounts" from Kerri@Viagra.com. How hard is it to filter that!? I mean, come on, how much more blatant could it be!?

Oh well.

Spam goes through cycles.

- Spam
- Filter to counter spam
- Spam to counter filters
- Filter to counter new spam
- Spam to counter new filters

That smap guy is going to prison now. Think I heard spam should go down by 30% with this guy behind bars. Time will tell

Based on my Spam : Inbox ratio, I find that Hotmail is the worse in picking out spam. I think I'd grade like so:

GMail - A
Yahoo - C
Hotmail - F+

Minh wrote:

Based on my Spam : Inbox ratio, I find that Hotmail is the worse in picking out spam. I think I'd grade like so:

GMail - A
Yahoo - C
Hotmail - F+

I've never gotten spam in my Gmail, but I don't use my Gmail for much My Hotmail account is tied to so many things, switching altogether would be extremely tedious.

Gmail Rocks - Spam filiter works wonderful.  I was a hard core hotmail guy for 6 or so years but google stole me away.  I also like that my kids don't have to look at victory secrets and dating sites on Gmail.

I used to use hotmail exclusively, then I got real busy for a while and didn't check my mal for a very long time.

One day I decided, hey I probably have a gazillion messages to read, so I tried to log in.

oops, hotmail couldn't find my account.

Apparantly, if you don't log in once every 30 days, they trash your account.

I had years worth of saved important emails and data, all gone forever.

That really irratated me. My hotmail account was even tied to my MSN Messenger, and that things is permanently logged in.

Why MS did you delete all my stuff?

You can recover it within 60 days tho. If i am correct... Gmail's handy I got in on the beta a while back... my dads workmate bought an invite on eBay for £100. I bought for for much less

Lloyd_Humph wrote:

You can recover it within 60 days tho. If i am correct... Gmail's handy I got in on the beta a while back... my dads workmate bought an invite on eBay for £100. I bought for for much less

You bought an invite? They've been freely available for years.

In fact, didn't Google complain about people charging for GMail invites a wihle back?

I bought it aaaaaages ago, when you had to text for an invite (US Only)

dupe

All I can say is one thing ...

http://www.ironport.com/

Sabot wrote:



All I can say is one thing ...

http://www.ironport.com/

Question:

I use GFI MailEssentials on top of my Exchange server, so I can pull email from web-facing POP3 servers to my LAN. All it does is save the message to an *.eml file and deposit it in one of Exchange's queue folders after changing the RCTP-TO header.

But do you know how GFI and other spam apps actually filter spam? Right now I'm getting more than my fair share of false-positives, and a lot of false-negatives (roughly 2 FPs a week, and 20 FNs a day, out of the 150 or so messages I receive in a day).

So how do these appliances you're suggesting, Sabot, integrate with Exchange and other groupware servers, like Lotus Notes? I'd read it, but I've got a huge exam tomorrow, wish me luck.

Because it reads and filters out the rubbish before it hits domino or exchange.

How it works is pretty simple there are loads of fake mail box all over the world ready to capture unsuspecting spam. When it lands it's read and marked as spam and the signature is sent out to all the Ironport boxes through-out the world. The secret is speed. This puppy even beats even image spam.

Oh and by the way it sits in the DMZ.