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Originally Posted by stuartbe
I believe that most of the problem is self inflicted. People tend to give there email address to anyone at the drop of a hat. I treat my email address like my credit card number and only give it to people I know.
I have a hotmail address that I use for web site reg. on downloads ext. and every month I go into the account and delete the lot.
I have found that a great deal of the spam is caused by spyware running on peoples systems. Gator, cydor ect. These spyware apps often send your email address of to marketing sites.
How many people actualy know about adaware ?????
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Well yes you are quite right, but it is also ntl's job to educate their customer's about the potential dangers of spam then. They advertise X number of e-mail addresses, but it doesn't say "with spam included free". People need to be aware that it is a real problem and to treat their e-mail address as you do. Spyware the same as above.