Porn Via Email

Over the last few days I've been getting pictures of porn through my Email. I have spam cop but it's getting through. This morning I had 12 pictures all the same on my NTL account.

[Florence]

sadly 90% of our spam emails over NTL are porn and most get through spam filters.

Originally Posted by Kits

sadly 90% of our spam emails over NTL are porn and most get through spam filters.

Hi Kit's, these pictures were dam right filth I must have had 12 this morning and the same yesterday. I think NTL is getting kicked into touch from me anyway I've had enough of their inept service. Why should the customers have to pay for Spam filtering? The spammers only beat it anyway.

I dont know how spam cop works, but if you use Mailwasher, it will only read the subject line & the sender from the mail server without downloading the entire email.

You will therefore never see any pictures or attachments. You can then either bounce, delete or blacklist any unsavoury emails.

[aafc01]

Originally Posted by Kits

sadly 90% of our spam emails over NTL are porn and most get through spam filters.

I use http://www.death2spam.com it cost $35/year, which I consider fantastic value for money. It learns as it goes along - you train it and so do all the other users. Hardly see any spam now.

[Florence]

I have been using spam assasin on my domain email address and it has been very good at romoving hte spam from those emails. I am thinking ov redirecting the worst affected NTL address to my domain name so they can start to bounced back.

The pictures that come up on these emails or completely disgusting.. I do use mozilla now to filter the spam but it tends to catch the odd email that it shouldn't so I do have to go through the list before deleting but its still time consuming and the titles are explicit whats inside the emails.

I have heard that you can set up outlook to only download headers and then delete without downlloading the rest. Sounds promising.. The big thing is all these spam emails must take up a lot of NTLs server space when we are on holiday and it does use out bandwidth when we have to access them..... I would be all for a blacklist of domain names that constantly send this type of spam.

[Chris W]

Setup your email client to only read messages as plain text, then the images won't appear. It will mess up things like newsletters that are formatted but at least it will stop the porn

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[looselipsuk]

Why not use a program that i use called k9.
You can set it up along with its own DNS filter to learn which emails are good or bad.
I find it better than Mailwasher as it does not bounce the email message back to the sender who may have had their mail address cloned and knows nothing about this till their mailbox gets flooded with bounced emails.

Originally Posted by looselipsuk

Why not use a program that i use called k9.
You can set it up along with its own DNS filter to learn which emails are good or bad.
I find it better than Mailwasher as it does not bounce the email message back to the sender who may have had their mail address cloned and knows nothing about this till their mailbox gets flooded with bounced emails.

Where do I get that from?

[looselipsuk]

Sorry got my thick head on today.
It would help if I gave you guys the link so try this.
http://keir.net/k9.html
I have been using it for some time with very good results and the other bonus is it is free.

[Chris W]

Originally Posted by Nidge

Where do I get that from?

a quick google found a download site here

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[danielf]

If you switch off the preview pane in outlook, you don't see the images. If you can judge it's porn by the subject, you can delete the email without seeing the images.

Originally Posted by looselipsuk

Sorry got my thick head on today.
It would help if I gave you guys the link so try this.
http://keir.net/k9.html
I have been using it for some time with very good results and the other bonus is it is free.

To much of this ???

Originally Posted by Nidge

Hi Kit's, these pictures were dam right filth I must have had 12 this morning and the same yesterday. I think NTL is getting kicked into touch from me anyway I've had enough of their inept service. Why should the customers have to pay for Spam filtering? The spammers only beat it anyway.

Then whats the point of NTL doing it then. Me i dont want them to check my mail for spam i would sooner do that myself just incase. The last thing i want is real emails that i want being stopped before i get chance to do something with them. How would i know that they are not being stopped by NTL ?.

[iadom]

Originally Posted by Nidge

Hi Kit's, these pictures were dam right filth I must have had 12 this morning and the same yesterday. I think NTL is getting kicked into touch from me anyway I've had enough of their inept service. Why should the customers have to pay for Spam filtering? The spammers only beat it anyway.

Don't blame Ntl. I have had a dial up account with Zen for over 8 years as well as NtlBB. I got very little spam on either until a few weeks ago, I now have to run mailwasher on my Zen account as I am getting this type of e-mail, 30 or more times a day. Allowing for the fact that, that e-mail address has been "out there" for over 8 years I guess I have been lucky up until now.