OT: Virus Wars

[JayBdey]

You can type your e-mail like this.

Say mine was jaybdey@host.com

type

mocdottsohatyedbyaj

Then tell the person to remove "dot" and "at" and replace them with the real symbols and to mirror the other parts. Humans can do this easily, but it is hard for machines.

Or, when signing up for an Online mail account. Make your account (your real account name) have something like NOSPAM or REMOVE in it. Then when the spammer’s spyder sees it, it gets removed. But your real e-mail address really does have that in it. Again, explain this to whoever you are trying to communicate your add. to.

Also, you could make your e-mail into a picture. Open up any paint program and use the text tool to save your e-mail address, make it small and in black and white, save as a jpeg to keep the file size down as much as possible. Then refer someone to the picture. Machines have a hard time taking out words from pictures.

I get about 1 e-mail every 2 days on my real account, and it's never spam.

[Ragnarok]

We get a ton of spam here at work due to our emails being posted alot. It is mostly to the people that are on our sales team since the sales@addy.com is posted on the site. But we run a program called iHateSpam by Sunbelt Software and we hardly get any spam now. Some of it still gets through but the majority of it is caught by that program. I would recommend it to any company and I believe they ahve a Version for home Users as well.

[geoschmo]

Well, based solely on your recommendation Rags I have downloaded IHateSpam and am going to give it the 30 day trial run. If it's as good as it claims to be it will certainly be worth the 20 bucks to register it.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Well, based solely on your recommendation Rags I have downloaded IHateSpam and am going to give it the 30 day trial run. If it's as good as it claims to be it will certainly be worth the 20 bucks to register it.

I certainly hope that it works as well for you as it does for us, Geo.

One day I was doing some upgrades and we were without it for 2 days and one user got an average of 300 spam emails per day for those 2 days. When we got IHS up and running again that dropped down to roughly 10-20 a day. I think it is even less now though.