Annoying Emails

No.... no attachments because AVG anti virus deletes the attachments before I even see it .

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Without being able to identify the attachment, I can't be sure, but it may be this one:

Snopes: Happy New Year virus

I don't know how they get the email address, I think as with bugs it's all automatic and all this crap is darting around the world at the speed of Light, anyhow the AVG anti everything is doing the job ,

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John, I use mailwasher too. Great software.
At one stage I was getting about 300 plus spams a day, plus about another 200 on my other four email addresses.
Even bought a copy, since the free version only can be used with one email address.

John
A few years ago I used that Hotmail for a while, that program allowed 100s of spam through,

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Doug,

Was that hotmail as in doug@hotmail.com, or mailwasher?
Mailwasher does need some training as to who are friends :o)
So the first week or so does take a little patience.

Oldplodder
No.... long time back, maybe 1999, don't use it and long forgotten what the email addy was.
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I bought a copy of mailwasher.
It keeps emails for 30 days and allows you to restore them.

Jon
I use Bigpond as an ISP so can go direct to webmail and see what there before it's downloaded by Outlook, I then delete most mails with unwanted stuff like many jokes with huge attachments thus saving on my download limit, Just that some get through unexpected like the one from ny Daughter that had 14mb of photo's it....Grrrr , apart from that AVG takes care of viruses etc but these stupid emails with just the text still get in, at the moment though I'm trying Mailwasher to see how it goes,

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Hi Doug,
That's the best way to do it. Check at your server what is waiting for your mail client to download and delete it before it has a chance to be downloaded. Jeze, 14 mb, that's a big email even for me on a very quick 1500/256 plan. Did she re size the pictures or was it just a lot?
I'm very aware of what other peoples connections are so I don't send them big attachments and clog up their connection. Nothing worst than just wanting to check something out quickly and you can't cause there is a huge email downloading.
Try setting up Pop Peeper Doug, saves you having to login to your webmail. It sits down by your clock and lets you know when new mail arrives. I have MS outlook Office 2007 set up to only do manual send/receives, so if I forget it still does not download them automatically

People just have to remind themselves that it is a scare world out there in Cyberspace. Don't trust anything or anybody.
It's all too easy to be stung by a Trojan/Worm, Keylogger, Virus.

Yep, but Mailwasher is much more than that. It allows you to bounce the offending emails back to the sender as if you don't exist. Over time it really affects how many spam emails you get.

I receive about 2 spam emails per week at the outside.

It also learns bad email addresses and marks them accordingly.

Best little investment in software I ever made.

Agree,
Used to use BSD, and friends use to warn me about viruses that got through.
Most viruses only work on Microsoft windows systems , since that is what they are complied on. Won't run on a Unix or Unix derivative. :o)