WTF !!! 1250 spam emails this morning !!!

[JeffC]

set outlook express away this morning 1250 emails! and everytime I click send /recieve I get another 10 emails      

they all have title of  mail delivery system or mailerdamon

each one is mailed to a differnt person @ j  ooper cars dot co dot uk ie andres@ fred@ ahraff@ freashnaf@  

Ive tried to block each one with antispam but they are nearly all getting through      

what is scarey is they only started coming at 7.00 this morning and I have had 1320 so far    

anything  I can do    

[Pilot Pete]

Sounds like someones mailbombed you off your website. Unfortunately I have no idea what you can do about it.

[RobC]

there are programs but your best off just changing your email...

Could use AVG or something like this as a Try before you buy to see if it helps, but in my experience you fighting a loosing battle

[JeffC]

1650 now    

email addy is same as my website, really cant change that as everywhere Ive advertised its my contact addy  

trouble is im waiting on some emails from customers so have to scroll through everyone in case I miss them    

is there a chance they will stop once they have used every name

@ ....  possible  

[CedricTheBrave]

who is your isp?

I'm sure you could set up your mail sever to only allow valid email address's through rather than the global anyone@ etc etc

check with you isp or who is hosting your domain and get them to look into it

[peterg]

Can you not set your email up so there is an inbox just for "Jeff @ Jcooper" etc  so anything else just goes into the normal one but 'proper' emails get picked up OK - or failing that, can you filter your inbox to capture them and move the real ones to a separate folder? (look under 'Rules')  

[JeffC]

Can you not set your email up so there is an inbox just for "Jeff @ Jcooper" etc  so anything else just goes into the normal one but 'proper' emails get picked up OK - or failing that, can you filter your inbox to capture them and move the real ones to a separate folder? (look under 'Rules')  

just spoke to the guy that set up my email through the website, he said he can set it so it only collects sales@ and Jeff@.

hopefully that should sort it  

had 1830 now    

[RobK]

had this exact problem a few years ago. Had my ISP and web hosting people turn off my "catch all alias" and just catch specific names like sales@ and accounts@ etc etc.

Still get around 50 spam per day! But thats managable. Dont worry these days just laugh at them.

Subject...... Morning accounts .... Do you need a bigger D1ck to please your girl?

The Megadick ones are especially funny, love their poems

[Muttleys V8]

You must have a lot of friends Jeff!

Any news on the Chip!

Steve

[JeffC]

You must have a lot of friends Jeff!

Any news on the Chip!

Steve

yeh just spoke to him  and hes allready sold it  

[stephenh]

I'm no expert on computers, but I think by the sound of it that you have got a trojan on your hard disc, which acts as a beacon to spam.

You probably want to investigate with the help of a computer cosultant getting a more efficient firewall installed once you have sorted out the present problem.

A computer consultant/expert can in effect wipe your disc clean as I understand it, haveing first saved all you data and then rebuild the registers (ie reload the programmes you use) and then with the cleanup kit which the experts have available identify the trojan and either remove it or issolate it in a way that it cannot reinfect your email programme. Your data can then be reloaded to your computer.

I'm probably using the wrong terms here technically, but what I have described is in layman's terms what my firm's computer consultants did to my computer a while ago.

StephenH.

I meant to add that I get emails about the size of my dick, they sewem to be flavour of the month at the moment!

[adhawkins]

I'm no expert on computers, but I think by the sound of it that you have got a trojan on your hard disc, which acts as a beacon to spam.

I doubt it.

I get lots of spam addressed to 'somethingrandom'@mydomain.co.uk. Once people find a valid domain (and that's easy enough) they will bombard all the 'usual' addresses (like sales@, accounts@, support@ etc.) as well as trying people's names and the like.

All you can do is filter it. However, I don't trust spam filters to delete for me, so I end up looking at the From and Subject of all my email that's marked as Spam.

Just to put it into perspective, the amount you've got isn't huge. Between going to bed last night and getting up this morning I had received over 300 emails. After going through them I had about 10 left that were 'real'.

Andy

[JeffC]

right 2300 spam mails binned, my man has set it to sales@ and jeff@ and although they have decreased Im still getting a few      they are to jhsgjhsgjdg@ j....

will it take a while for them to stop or should they have stopped straight away ?

and what the devil do people get out of sending you this s**t        

[BuGsBuNnY]

I'm no expert on computers, but I think by the sound of it that you have got a trojan on your hard disc, which acts as a beacon to spam.

You probably want to investigate with the help of a computer cosultant getting a more efficient firewall installed once you have sorted out the present problem.

A computer consultant/expert can in effect wipe your disc clean as I understand it, haveing first saved all you data and then rebuild the registers (ie reload the programmes you use) and then with the cleanup kit which the experts have available identify the trojan and either remove it or issolate it in a way that it cannot reinfect your email programme. Your data can then be reloaded to your computer.

I'm probably using the wrong terms here technically, but what I have described is in layman's terms what my firm's computer consultants did to my computer a while ago.

StephenH.

No, no and no unfortunately.

Jeff employs a managed service, so he has no access to firewalls (which do nothing for spam anyway).

Spam will increase exponentially once you publish your email address on the web. Web Spiders (robots, bots etc) will trawl webpages and capture anything that resembles an email address.

*@*

Once one bot indexes you, it snowballs...

There are a few tricks to use to avoid spam, such as:

1)Never publish your email address (not really practical in this case)

2)Use a link for your email and not the address itself, ie use click to contact me (This is easily bypassed by a half-clever bot)

3)If you need to publish it, use (at) instead of @

4)Buy a decent spam killer piece of software as an addon to your email program. These are never 100% and chances are they wil pick some useful emails as well

[Matt Seabrook]

I us Mozila Thunderbird and it seems quite good with the spam problem