Im getting fed up IE (Internet Explorer) and Hotmail. My email account got hacked again today and its the second time in a month. This comes after using Hotmail for nearly 10 years without any problems. I have other alternate accounts from Yahoo, and Gmail that I use and they dont have nearly the spam this dang hotmail acount has, and I use my google account to respond to all sorts of adds on Craigslist and whatever else is out there because I never really cared if it got spammed. Gmail hasnt been around that long. Maybe for the last 7 years or so (I think I signed up for a Gmail account in 2005). How much spam does my Google account, which I basically careless send from, actually recieve?
One to less then 5. I get around 1 to sometimes maybe 3 spam emails sent to my Gmail account in one week. Thats after around the 7 years I have been sending emails to whatever I was intrested in at the time.
How much spam does my Hotmail account get that I keep a relatively close eye on what I send from it?
Around 50 spam emails a day. I guess after around 10 years of these spammers spreading my address around the world. That was bound to happen. It only needs to be in the hands of one spammer and it gets spread around like a plague.
With my Hotmail account, I never email out messages accept to the people I know or in sending out resumes to potential employers. Actually, ive used both my Gmail and Hotmail accounts to email out resumes.
The trouble now is Gmail does not work the greatest with IE and photos and images such as banners in emails do not show up very well using IE as a browser. So its time to finally get with the times and find a new web browser. I stuck with IE because its simple and all I need was an icon to click and be on the WWW. (case in point, say summit racing sends you an email to a Gmail account, no image of the Summit racing logo appears, just Googles version of a red X).
Right now I am logged into Safari which is Apples web browser just to try it out as its a default program I have installed because of my Ipod. I was looking into Firefox but doing a search on the problem of not getting images in Gmail appears that Firefox also has the same problem.
So, what are you guys using for browsing the internet? How many have a Gmail address they use and are you able to see images in email messages?
John D said
Mar 10, 2012
I'm using IE version 8, Microsoft "Outlook 2007" for an email/contacts/calendar program, with Earthlink as my provider - and have zero problems. Additionally I have PC Tools "Spyware Doctor w/ Anti-Virus" installed on ALL of the machines at home (an annual pay software). This software automatically scans anything incoming for Filthy McNasties.
It's probably not your email accounts/provider - it's either lack of, or the spam settings on your email software (especially hotmail). It sounds like you have minimal filters engaged, and/or nothing in your "Block this Domain/Sender" folder. Every email program I've had experience with has a customizing menu, where you can set various filters. Examples are: - Nothing gets through unless they are in your address book - They get through, but unknowns (not in the address book) are dumped into a "Junk Mail" folder for you to sort out. - Anything & everything gets through. (One nice thing about Earthlink is they give you 6 email accounts, and also 5 "dummy" email accounts (not @earthlink.net). I use the dummies for communicating to "suspicious" or unknown sites that require an email address to activate. If something fishy happens, it's caught and dumped at the servers - long before it's delivered to me.)
One thing to look out for is if your email is set to automatically add an email address to your contact list - either by receiving or sending. This basically gives anyone a direct pipeline into your contacts list.
As far as images go, you probably don't have something enabled on your software, or you need to update a driver file - like Adobe Flash or something.
Lost in the 60s said
Mar 10, 2012
IE 8 here too with Windows Live for email. I have a private IP called VISI in Eden Prairie and their servers catch a LOT of the crap before it gets here. Windows Live has a "Delete and Block" button that if you don't want anymore emails from a particular sender, click it once and that's the end of it.
Chris R said
Mar 10, 2012
Windows live is what I use as well. Deleting and blocking emails is all good. But these spammers come back with another slightly jumbled address to email from and send you the same crap. You can keep deleting and blocking emails until the cows come home. It doesnt do any good when its a its a bunch of numbers and jumbled letters @whatever.com emails you about the typical crap we have all seen spam from before. Delete that email and they come back with a few different numbers and letters @whatever.com and you delete that one too. It just keeps going around and around.
Trouble is you can only store so much in Hotmails blocked sender list. Hotmail has a block sender option that you click on for each spam email and it puts it in a folder (which isnt stored on your harddrive, its on thier server) preventing further emails from that address.
Seemed only a few years ago, I had very few emails sent as spam to my spam folder. John, I think you nailed it with the lack of setting for email settings, Hotmail doesnt really give you much to set. Ive set what little options I could several years ago. I think its a combination of the Hotmail servers and system being easy for these people to hack, as well as the popularity of users that attract spammers, scammers and solicitors.
I did do some more searching on the compatibility issue and uncovered a forum post from some computer forum with several posts about the same thing, there are quite a few posts on lots of forums out there with people complaining about this Gmail/IE issue. Posted was an option in the tools-internet options menu that was suggested to un-highlight one box and highlight the opossite box. It was a box I didnt know what it was when I was customizing my internet viewing options years ago and left it as its default. Its in a list of options to change and im not sure what it is for so I never messed with it. Now I have images in my Gmail account working as it should.
I was talking to Dave this afternoon as I was online and noticed a MAJOR problem with Apples cookies and a big time glitch in thier software. Seems you cant set thier browser settings to block or ask you to accept a cookie first and give the option to accept it. It just automatically installs any cookie you come in contact with online. Even if you highlight the box saying to prompt you or block all cookies for certain websites. It does not block and installs anyways. While I was surfing online trying to get to know that software after tailoring it to how I like my settings. I never got a single prompt and testing the WWW with all cookies blocked (just to see what would happen). I decided to do a search on this problem and found a LOT of unhappy people about the same issue. Wont be using Apple Safari anytime soon. It was amazing how many cookies I had cached after that search, even with all cookies blocked in thier software.
I think I will be swapping roles with my Gmail and Hotmail accounts. Responding to craigslist ads and whatever else using the Hotmail account.
Tony Hoffer said
Mar 10, 2012
Seamonkey.. Its stripped down and fast.. Old time Mozilla users will love its feel.... Its basically Firefox browser with Thunderbird mail client...
But these spammers come back with another slightly jumbled address to email from and send you the same crap. You can keep deleting and blocking emails until the cows come home. It doesnt do any good when its a its a bunch of numbers and jumbled letters @whatever.com emails you about the typical crap we have all seen spam from before. Delete that email and they come back with a few different numbers and letters @whatever.com and you delete that one too. It just keeps going around and around.
You just answered/fixed your own problem...
What you have to do is block the domain, not Fred, Suzy, 0porwiet, opivarno. You have to block @junkmail.com.
A quick google search for "blocking domains windows live" resulted in:
But these spammers come back with another slightly jumbled address to email from and send you the same crap. You can keep deleting and blocking emails until the cows come home. It doesnt do any good when its a its a bunch of numbers and jumbled letters @whatever.com emails you about the typical crap we have all seen spam from before. Delete that email and they come back with a few different numbers and letters @whatever.com and you delete that one too. It just keeps going around and around.
You just answered/fixed your own problem...
What you have to do is block the domain, not Fred, Suzy, 0porwiet, opivarno. You have to block @junkmail.com.
A quick google search for "blocking domains windows live" resulted in:
Ill have to try that. Im supprised I didnt know that little trick years ago. Ive added addresses to that box several times by coping and pasting but didnt realize it would also work by the copying the @whatever part and would still work too. Thanks.
Ive heard pretty good things about seamonkey, was already kind of checking out Firefox. Ive always heard good things about that as well.
Im getting fed up IE (Internet Explorer) and Hotmail. My email account got hacked again today and its the second time in a month. This comes after using Hotmail for nearly 10 years without any problems. I have other alternate accounts from Yahoo, and Gmail that I use and they dont have nearly the spam this dang hotmail acount has, and I use my google account to respond to all sorts of adds on Craigslist and whatever else is out there because I never really cared if it got spammed. Gmail hasnt been around that long. Maybe for the last 7 years or so (I think I signed up for a Gmail account in 2005). How much spam does my Google account, which I basically careless send from, actually recieve?
One to less then 5. I get around 1 to sometimes maybe 3 spam emails sent to my Gmail account in one week. Thats after around the 7 years I have been sending emails to whatever I was intrested in at the time.
How much spam does my Hotmail account get that I keep a relatively close eye on what I send from it?
Around 50 spam emails a day. I guess after around 10 years of these spammers spreading my address around the world. That was bound to happen. It only needs to be in the hands of one spammer and it gets spread around like a plague.
With my Hotmail account, I never email out messages accept to the people I know or in sending out resumes to potential employers. Actually, ive used both my Gmail and Hotmail accounts to email out resumes.
The trouble now is Gmail does not work the greatest with IE and photos and images such as banners in emails do not show up very well using IE as a browser. So its time to finally get with the times and find a new web browser. I stuck with IE because its simple and all I need was an icon to click and be on the WWW. (case in point, say summit racing sends you an email to a Gmail account, no image of the Summit racing logo appears, just Googles version of a red X).
Right now I am logged into Safari which is Apples web browser just to try it out as its a default program I have installed because of my Ipod. I was looking into Firefox but doing a search on the problem of not getting images in Gmail appears that Firefox also has the same problem.
So, what are you guys using for browsing the internet? How many have a Gmail address they use and are you able to see images in email messages?
Additionally I have PC Tools "Spyware Doctor w/ Anti-Virus" installed on ALL of the machines at home (an annual pay software). This software automatically scans anything incoming for Filthy McNasties.
It's probably not your email accounts/provider - it's either lack of, or the spam settings on your email software (especially hotmail). It sounds like you have minimal filters engaged, and/or nothing in your "Block this Domain/Sender" folder. Every email program I've had experience with has a customizing menu, where you can set various filters. Examples are:
- Nothing gets through unless they are in your address book
- They get through, but unknowns (not in the address book) are dumped into a "Junk Mail" folder for you to sort out.
- Anything & everything gets through.
(One nice thing about Earthlink is they give you 6 email accounts, and also 5 "dummy" email accounts (not @earthlink.net). I use the dummies for communicating to "suspicious" or unknown sites that require an email address to activate. If something fishy happens, it's caught and dumped at the servers - long before it's delivered to me.)
One thing to look out for is if your email is set to automatically add an email address to your contact list - either by receiving or sending. This basically gives anyone a direct pipeline into your contacts list.
As far as images go, you probably don't have something enabled on your software, or you need to update a driver file - like Adobe Flash or something.
IE 8 here too with Windows Live for email. I have a private IP called VISI in Eden Prairie and their servers catch a LOT of the crap before it gets here. Windows Live has a "Delete and Block" button that if you don't want anymore emails from a particular sender, click it once and that's the end of it.
Windows live is what I use as well. Deleting and blocking emails is all good. But these spammers come back with another slightly jumbled address to email from and send you the same crap. You can keep deleting and blocking emails until the cows come home. It doesnt do any good when its a its a bunch of numbers and jumbled letters @whatever.com emails you about the typical crap we have all seen spam from before. Delete that email and they come back with a few different numbers and letters @whatever.com and you delete that one too. It just keeps going around and around.
Trouble is you can only store so much in Hotmails blocked sender list. Hotmail has a block sender option that you click on for each spam email and it puts it in a folder (which isnt stored on your harddrive, its on thier server) preventing further emails from that address.
Seemed only a few years ago, I had very few emails sent as spam to my spam folder. John, I think you nailed it with the lack of setting for email settings, Hotmail doesnt really give you much to set. Ive set what little options I could several years ago. I think its a combination of the Hotmail servers and system being easy for these people to hack, as well as the popularity of users that attract spammers, scammers and solicitors.
I did do some more searching on the compatibility issue and uncovered a forum post from some computer forum with several posts about the same thing, there are quite a few posts on lots of forums out there with people complaining about this Gmail/IE issue. Posted was an option in the tools-internet options menu that was suggested to un-highlight one box and highlight the opossite box. It was a box I didnt know what it was when I was customizing my internet viewing options years ago and left it as its default. Its in a list of options to change and im not sure what it is for so I never messed with it. Now I have images in my Gmail account working as it should.
I was talking to Dave this afternoon as I was online and noticed a MAJOR problem with Apples cookies and a big time glitch in thier software. Seems you cant set thier browser settings to block or ask you to accept a cookie first and give the option to accept it. It just automatically installs any cookie you come in contact with online. Even if you highlight the box saying to prompt you or block all cookies for certain websites. It does not block and installs anyways. While I was surfing online trying to get to know that software after tailoring it to how I like my settings. I never got a single prompt and testing the WWW with all cookies blocked (just to see what would happen). I decided to do a search on this problem and found a LOT of unhappy people about the same issue. Wont be using Apple Safari anytime soon. It was amazing how many cookies I had cached after that search, even with all cookies blocked in thier software.
I think I will be swapping roles with my Gmail and Hotmail accounts. Responding to craigslist ads and whatever else using the Hotmail account.
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
You just answered/fixed your own problem...
What you have to do is block the domain, not Fred, Suzy, 0porwiet, opivarno. You have to block @junkmail.com.
A quick google search for "blocking domains windows live" resulted in:
How to #1
How to #2
Ill have to try that. Im supprised I didnt know that little trick years ago. Ive added addresses to that box several times by coping and pasting but didnt realize it would also work by the copying the @whatever part and would still work too. Thanks.
Ive heard pretty good things about seamonkey, was already kind of checking out Firefox. Ive always heard good things about that as well.