Spam

petes

Hey guys. Have a couple of users here who are getting an odd spam email, maybe three or four a week. I know its not that many. They are all to do with stock exchange prices of different companies and then some random ****e at the bottom. We have a spam filter setup with our isp and I can log into that and reject the spam. But as you know all the domains its being sent from are different. And the subject of the emails are different too. Will I need to set up a spam filter on the machines locally? Its pissing me off.

Cabaal

Properly better of just using a spam filter in the client there using, as for clients I have Thunderbirds spam filter very good and ti allows easy checking of flagged mails incase a legit mail has been marked as spam.

Also easier to use then outlook imho

petes

Using Exchange here so its Outlook. Will have a look about for some spamfilter software for Outlook. Cheers.

SantaHoe

Mmm, I think I'm getting the same spam... get about two of these a day from the same company.
Different source addresses, seemingly random sentences in the body and the real message is written on a gif.
I've got html disabled for incoming mail, so all I get is gibberish with an attachment. :rolleyes:
Assholes tbh, if I didn't act on the email the first 20 times I'm not going to in future... yet every day like clockwork

stevenmu

Check out SpamBayes, it's working very well for me. Altough it might only work with mail that outlook downloads locally (ie POP).

Avns1s

I'm getting about 400 Spam mails a day. Many of the one's already described and others as well. (How they knew I would be in the market for cheap viagra, I'll never know!:rolleyes: )

Anyway, Joking aside, is there any advice for cutting down on the number of these without losing potentially important genuine mail.

It really is time that some laws came in about the sending of this type of crap.

Thanks,

petes

SantaHoe wrote:

Assholes tbh, if I didn't act on the email the first 20 times I'm not going to in future... yet every day like clockwork

I wouldn't be arsed looking at them and just delete but its the users I have to cater for.

stevenmu wrote:

Check out SpamBayes, it's working very well for me. Altough it might only work with mail that outlook downloads locally (ie POP).

Will have a look. Thanks.

Stephen

I'm getting the exact same crap in my gmail account - random gibberish text with a gif attached pimping some sh1tty stock. Getting several of these per day, along with all the usual viagra/rolex sh1te.

Drives me mental :mad:

ScumLord

I get them too. I get other ones that aren't even selling anything there like a paragraph of a storey or something. makes no sense at all.

cormie

I get two main spam mails quite regularly, is #1 the same type the rest of you get? #2 I receive from the contact form on the poker.ie forun:mad:

Maybe 2 a day so it's not that bad.

petes

cormie wrote:

I get two main spam mails quite regularly, is #1 the same type the rest of you get? #2 I receive from the contact form on the poker.ie forun:mad:

Maybe 2 a day so it's not that bad.

The first is one of the friggers. Others come in with the same crap.

Ruu_Old

These stock price emails came all of a sudden, started nearly everyday from about a month ago into my old iol.ie address.*shakes fist* I must configure Thunderbird when I get time.

eirlink

I was getting the first one every day for last 3 weeks and although only 3 or 4 a day it was annoying me.

I subscribed to the eircom email protector and i havent had any since.BTW its free for next 2 months then €2 a month thereafter

Working for me so far....god knows what else it stops.Its supposed to stop virus as well?

regi

There's quite a lot of image spam going around at the moment. The anti/pro spam arms race continues...

The kind of systems that eirlink describes are handy, too. Basically all your email gets delivered to an email scrubbing system before it even gets delivered your mail box. Ideally, viruses get deleted, while suspect spam is marked so you can filter it into a spam folder for later inspection. Some systems will kill suspect spam, but you might get the odd false positive.

Also worth noting that with those systems, you don't have to continually update your checker - the mailscrubber system should automatically do that.

Ruu_Old

I'm getting a whole heap of Bank of Scotland and Paypal image spam lately, of course its marked as a scam by Thunderbird so you can see the big blue border (showing its a sort of an image map) around it. That said there is a whole heap of nonsense text underneath the image, I assume that is put there to try and fool the filter or some such.

Standard Toaster

petes wrote:

They are all to do with stock exchange prices of different companies and then some random ****e at the bottom.

A load of users reported the same in my place during the week.
The aul Mailsweeper is catching them now though.

leche solara

Quarantining spam for later inspection defeats the purpose of a spam detector. You still have exactly the same number of items in your mailbox, only half, three quarters(?) are now in a subfolder. That blue number after the spam sub-folder's name is going to irritate you until you look, and then hey! you're back to where you started, only you're not really because when you started you had the money you spent on the spam detector software.

stevenmu

ScumLord wrote:

I get them too. I get other ones that aren't even selling anything there like a paragraph of a storey or something. makes no sense at all.

The thinking behind them is to combat learning filters, the idea being that you will keep marking them as spam, training your filter to reject them, then your filter will start matching them with valid mails and rejecting them too. Best to just delete them.