new spam help!

[gingerjedi]

Anyone else noticed spam on the rise again? Just as i thought i had it under control its started again, over the last few months i'm getting spam for various financial tips maybe 5 times a day plus russian dating sites? I cant just block them because they seem to be coming via genuine email addresses probably without the owners knowledge and the subject lines are completely random.

Is this happening to everyone or has someone stitched me up?

[MrsGoof]

plus russian dating sites

SKA is working after all

[oraclesmith]

I get them too. The clever ones are where the real text is an image and the text is just random rubbish. The e-mail addresses are spoofed. I switched off McAfee Spamkiller because it was refusing some legit e-mails too, so I just delete them without reading them nowadays.

[Ardesco]

reminds me i must put some anti spam stuff on my mail server. This weekend I got sent 14,000 of the buggers! however it is now back to the usual 50 a day odd.

[Fleetwood]

What I've never understood is how this spammers seem to know that I've got a small penis...

[loki]

recommendation for free anti spam tool

I heartily recommend K9, a pop3 utility from keir.net for windows

I get them too. The clever ones are where the real text is an image and the text is just random rubbish. The e-mail addresses are spoofed. I switched off McAfee Spamkiller because it was refusing some legit e-mails too, so I just delete them without reading them nowadays.

[Baobab]

reminds me i must put some anti spam stuff on my mail server. This weekend I got sent 14,000 of the buggers! however it is now back to the usual 50 a day odd.

I have used this a couple of times to implement filtering as mail comes into the domain.There are a few good step by step tutorials on the site I preferred the Mr88Talent one.All free and open source and the server will run fine on a low end machine.Support from the forums was really good too IIRC.

http://www.freespamfilter.org/

[xoggoth]

It's really got awful. Spam killers just ain't working. Suddenly getting loads addressed to anyoldname@myurl and it got delivered to me as default.

Just gone through the exercise of redirecting - now only specific addresses come to me, rubbish gets bounced and there's an intermediate category I can just check headers of in freeware mail thing.