Re: Are you getting porn in your email?
Someone with whom you have communicated by e-mail could have spyware unknowingly installed on their computer, which they could have picked up from any of a number of websites (not necessarily porn sites, either - song lyric sites are a popular target these days, for example.) That spyware can harvest e-mail addresses from that person's address book or e-mail program, and voila! - spammers have your address.
If you've ever used that e-mail address when ordering something online, like a purchase or signing up for newsletters - you can expect it to slip out of the grasp of those retailers and services.
Many people have firewalls and quarantine systems (like the spam filter you said you use) installed on their home computers, and there's no excuse for any business to not have some level of protection on their work systems. But spamming technology will ALWAYS be ahead of the filtering curve - it's an accepted fact of life in the computer age. I have multiple e-mail accounts, each for a different purpose, and almost all of them get some level of spam, despite excellent filtering.
For those who've never been hit with any spam, consider yourselves fortunate; once your address gets out there, there is no method by which you can guarantee freedom from spam (for that address) ever again.
As noted before - use the delete key regularly. Also, avoid even opening those obvious spam messages, and NEVER respond to an "unsubscribe me" link in spam - that tells the spammers that they have hit an active address, and your address will be sold and circulated even more widely.
Originally posted by Buzzy
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If you've ever used that e-mail address when ordering something online, like a purchase or signing up for newsletters - you can expect it to slip out of the grasp of those retailers and services.
Many people have firewalls and quarantine systems (like the spam filter you said you use) installed on their home computers, and there's no excuse for any business to not have some level of protection on their work systems. But spamming technology will ALWAYS be ahead of the filtering curve - it's an accepted fact of life in the computer age. I have multiple e-mail accounts, each for a different purpose, and almost all of them get some level of spam, despite excellent filtering.
For those who've never been hit with any spam, consider yourselves fortunate; once your address gets out there, there is no method by which you can guarantee freedom from spam (for that address) ever again.
As noted before - use the delete key regularly. Also, avoid even opening those obvious spam messages, and NEVER respond to an "unsubscribe me" link in spam - that tells the spammers that they have hit an active address, and your address will be sold and circulated even more widely.
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