Post by thread:[OT]: Unsolicited Messages

I use Mozilla, and the current version has an automatic junk mail filtering - you "teach" the program marking junk mail with a special flag and in a few days it starts to guess what's junk or not, saving those garbage in a different folder for later inspection, with the ability to automatically delete these messages after a period of time - default to 14 days. You can refine the program's ability to catch spam setting or clearing that "junk flag" from messages misinterpreted by the guessing. It works great, I can tell. If you already use another e-mail client, I recommend "spam assassin". There are many versions, according to your OS: http://spamassassin.org/where.html Hope this helps Francisco Orbit Communications wrote: {Quote hidden}>Has anyone else here been bombarded with unsolicited messages from http://www.byebyeads.com ? > >Anyone know how I can prevent these pop-up messages from being received on my PC ? > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different >ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.

Do a google search on a program called Adaware or Ad-Aware. This will find advertising programs on your PC such as Gator, and those loaded by many "free" screensaver utilities and mp3 sharing programs. It will give you the option of unloading any offending programs. -Adam Orbit Communications wrote: {Quote hidden}>Has anyone else here been bombarded with unsolicited messages from http://www.byebyeads.com ? > >Anyone know how I can prevent these pop-up messages from being received on my PC ? > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different >ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.

The previous delay was contributed by Microsoft OE because it was sure it knew better than I.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Ferrell" <spam_OUTjohnferrellTakeThisOuTEARTHLINK.NET> To: <.....PICLISTKILLspam@spam@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 12:54 PM Subject: Re: Unsolicited Messages > When I ordered Zonelabs Pro (Firewall Software) they included another > product as a promotion: Pest Patrol. > It does a good job disposing of popups. The wierd audible indicator was very {Quote hidden}> annoying to my larger dog so I disabled it with an option. I am probably > losing a little legitimate traffic, but ignorence seems to be bliss! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Orbit Communications" <infoKILLspamORBITCOMS.COM> > To: <.....PICLISTKILLspam.....MITVMA.MIT.EDU> > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 4:38 AM > Subject: [OT]: Unsolicited Messages > > > Has anyone else here been bombarded with unsolicited messages from > http://www.byebyeads.com ? > > Anyone know how I can prevent these pop-up messages from being received on > my PC ? > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.

I found a (so far) good program called "Spybot Search and Destroy" that fishes out most of the really grungy spyware programs, and also has a middling length list of opt-out addresses for the more "legitimate" spammers. Mike Hord {Quote hidden}>From: "M. Adam Davis" <EraseMEadampicspam_OUTTakeThisOuTUBASICS.COM> >Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list <PICLISTspam_OUTMITVMA.MIT.EDU> >To: @spam@PICLISTKILLspamMITVMA.MIT.EDU >Subject: Re: [OT]: Unsolicited Messages >Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:23:45 -0400 > >Do a google search on a program called Adaware or Ad-Aware. > >This will find advertising programs on your PC such as Gator, and those >loaded by many "free" screensaver utilities and mp3 sharing programs. >It will give you the option of unloading any offending programs. > >-Adam > >Orbit Communications wrote: > >>Has anyone else here been bombarded with unsolicited messages from >>http://www.byebyeads.com ? >> >>Anyone know how I can prevent these pop-up messages from being received on >>my PC ? >> >>-- >>http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different >>ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. >> >> >> >> >> > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different >ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.

> I found a (so far) good program called "Spybot Search and Destroy" that > fishes out most of the really grungy spyware programs, and also has a > middling length list of opt-out addresses for the more "legitimate" > spammers. Mailwasher, http://www.mailwasher.com which I recommended recently, uses Spam Cop as a sourcefor blacklisted senders. In my experience so far (about 1 week+) it is working VERY well. Almost all blacklists are true SPAM - a very few are legitimate messages - presumably they have had people in the same domain sending spam. This is a spamcop id problem. Even for those it misses, having the email subject lines available (and text without pictures if needed) has almost completely eliminated the downloading of pornographic spam which I have previously been getting much of. This is especially useful as the images often download when you preview the message and this can be used to give the sender a confirmation that your address is a "live" one. With mail washer they do not get this confirmationm. Russell McMahon -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email KILLspamlistservKILLspammitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

> Russell, I think that mailwasher maybe http://www.mailwasher.net ? ... the *.com* > redirects to a site flogging stuff...! Yes, sorry. Musn't rely on memory for such things :-) :-( It is very good though - takes about zero overhead to use and may well complement other approaches. Having it use the Spam Cop blacklist alone is useful. Shame that Spam Cop blacklists some sites that appear benign. These can be manually fixed but it makes it slightly less automatic. RM -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email RemoveMElistservTakeThisOuTmitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

At 12:23 PM 24/04/2003 -0400, you wrote: >Do a google search on a program called Adaware or Ad-Aware. > >This will find advertising programs on your PC such as Gator, and those >loaded by many "free" screensaver utilities and mp3 sharing programs. >It will give you the option of unloading any offending programs. > >-Adam I realise how long ago this message was posted, but I just came across it, and I thought I'd say something about it. Adaware has a slight problem with it. It can occasionally tag innocent programs as spyware. It tagged my timesynch utility as an advertising program... So, be careful if and when you use it. --Brendan -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email spamBeGonelistservspamBeGonemitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

Brendan Moran wrote: > I realise how long ago this message was posted, but I just came across it, > and I thought I'd say something about it. Adaware has a slight problem > with it. It can occasionally tag innocent programs as spyware. It tagged > my timesynch utility as an advertising program... So, be careful if and > when you use it. Actually, several timesynch programs are spyware - they log various internet sites you visit and report back to the company that provides the software. So I'd do a little bit more checking on this "timesynch" program of yours; adaware may be correct after all - just a little friendly warning. -- Jay -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email TakeThisOuTlistservEraseMEspam_OUTmitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

>Actually, several timesynch programs are spyware - they log various >internet sites you visit and report back to the company that provides >the software. So I'd do a little bit more checking on this "timesynch" >program of yours; adaware may be correct after all - just a little >friendly warning. Thanks for the heads-up. I've been using Atomic Time Synch from AnalogX (http://www.analogx.com) so I've just reconfigured my firewall to find out if there's anything that I don't expect or shouldn't happen. --Brendan -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList RemoveMEpiclist-unsubscribe-requestTakeThisOuTmitvma.mit.edu>

At 11:55 PM 6/24/03 -0700, Brendan Moran wrote: >Thanks for the heads-up. >I've been using Atomic Time Synch from AnalogX (http://www.analogx.com) so I've >just reconfigured my firewall to find out if there's anything that I don't >expect or shouldn't happen. All of the stuff from Analogx has been pretty much perfect in my experience. No signs of spyware in anything I've used to date. dwayne -- Dwayne Reid <dwaynerEraseME.....planet.eon.net> Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax Celebrating 19 years of Engineering Innovation (1984 - 2003) .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .- `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' Do NOT send unsolicited commercial email to this email address. This message neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList EraseMEpiclist-unsubscribe-requestmitvma.mit.edu>