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June 12, 2010I get e-mails from people advertising *** or watches or whatever else and the people I get them from, I know I’ve never given my e-mail address. Is there a way to block my e-mail from getting crap like this? I have two kids that use my computer and they don’t need to hit my mail button and see “Find a f–kbuddy tonight. Please help.
I get e-mails from people advertising *** or watches or whatever else and the people I get them from, I know I’ve never given my e-mail address. Is there a way to block my e-mail from getting crap like this? I have two kids that use my computer and they don’t need to hit my mail button and see “Find a f–kbuddy tonight. Please help.
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Well, your kids shouldn’t be able to just get into your email anyway. Put a password on it. I use gmail and they catch 95% of my spam.
Once you’ve received such spam, your best bet is to mark it as ’spam.’ They system will then block that address.
To know/read more go to your mailbox and look for the “Options” link to the right of the screen and click on it. The go to “Block Addresses.”
Since you have kids, you may want to either invest in some ‘nanny-software’ or put a password on your mail account so they can’t access it.
Turn on your spam blocker.
Click on “Options” from the upper right of your yahoo in-box.
Click on “Spam Protection” and fill out the form with your preferences to customize the anti-spam tools to maximize your spam protection. Click “Save Changes” at the bottom of the page.
Now, when you see these email in your in-box, put a check mark next to each one. Go to the top of the page and click the “Spam” button.
Unfortunately, we all get that kind of crap in our Inboxes. In fact, according to the anti-spam experts, we are seeing far more spam mails now than ever before. And the spammers are more clever about defeating the spam filters. That’s why more spam is making it to the Inbox instead of going straight to the Bulk folder. There are a few basic things we can all do to keep spam to a minimum…
1. Spam mails that go straight to Bulk should be left there (and emptied occasionally if you want). But they should NEVER be opened. And certainly DON’T unsubscribe from anything.
2. Spam mails that land in your Inbox should be marked as Spam so that they are moved to Bulk and placed on the Blocked list (blocking that address so you don’t receive any more mails from them).
3. Any email that you are the least bit suspicious about should be deleted immediately. Don’t let curiosity get the better of you. Simply by opening a spam email, you could be alerting the spammers that you have an active email address (they probably didn’t know it before), to which they will most certainly send TONS of spam mail in the future.