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question about spam

  • 31-08-2010 9:33pm
    #1
    ferguson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭


    When you go to a site which has a pop up ad for a poker/casino, can they pull your email address even if you do not email them. Went to such a site recently and popped down the pop up ad but now I am getting lots of poker/casino spam to an account that is never put on net never gets spam

    Cannot recall what site it was but not porn etc and was a genuine site with genuine info but pop up poker/casino. Never play poker online either

    Is it co incidence?


Comments

  • #2
    snappieT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭snappieT


    I can't think of a way they could harvest your email. Worst they could do is launch a new email with their address filled in, but you'll still have to press "send".


  • #3
    bhickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭bhickey


    It's unusual for any modern browser to allow ad popups without user intervention. In general, dodgy popup ads can be a symptom of some sort of malware infection.

    If your e-mail address has already escaped into the wild then you can't undo that now but you should do a proper scan of your computer to see if there are any obvious infections.


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