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Toreador · 17-05-2004, 12:52

Have NTL really been filtering emails since Christmas? Because that's just about the time that I'd date a huge increase in the number of spam/virus emails I get. I use mailwasher so it's not a massive problem - however, whenever I'm away for more than a few days, I receive so much junk mail that I can guarantee my account will be blocked before I return as I've gone over my allowable mailbox size.

The main culprit is the 'MS Security' virus, don't know its proper name but each one has a 100K+ attachment. I can't understand why NTL won't do anything to block these, the technology is there (even Hotmail manages it) and it must cost NTL a lot of money to store these even temporarily, plus bandwidth to download them, etc.

If NTL are moving to a new platform next month then I'll maybe give them another few weeks on top of that before I've had enough and ditch them for a company that cares.

17-05-2004, 12:52	#60
Toreador Inactive Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: York Posts: 92	Re: [merged] NTL Spam Filtering Have NTL really been filtering emails since Christmas? Because that's just about the time that I'd date a huge increase in the number of spam/virus emails I get. I use mailwasher so it's not a massive problem - however, whenever I'm away for more than a few days, I receive so much junk mail that I can guarantee my account will be blocked before I return as I've gone over my allowable mailbox size. The main culprit is the 'MS Security' virus, don't know its proper name but each one has a 100K+ attachment. I can't understand why NTL won't do anything to block these, the technology is there (even Hotmail manages it) and it must cost NTL a lot of money to store these even temporarily, plus bandwidth to download them, etc. If NTL are moving to a new platform next month then I'll maybe give them another few weeks on top of that before I've had enough and ditch them for a company that cares.