Spam Deluge

Yeah, there's a lot of it about...

Del

I believe this is the way of the future. I hate to check on any link due to the pop ups and advertisements that are unwanted. Then they make the small x box to get the "skip ad" around 2 pixels size. Its getting to the point that i use the internet less.

With Chrome browser you can right click on any popup and click on "block this" , it then gives you a sliding scale that you keep sliding to the right until the popup disappears, and then you click it out of existence....so cool

I don't have a Windows machine, at least one that is connected to the net, so take this with a grain of salt.

You need to keep trying other software to purge the vermin malware.

The problem with anti-malware software is that it is always one step behind the arseholes that create it. It's like Schrödinger's Rat in the box. It seems like most anti-malware software can't be sure - it might be there and it might not. ;-)

You might want to look at what Microsoft has, but Google anti-malware, too and find reviews on the various software. One is likely to find your rat.

Probably the trap is sold by the guy that created the rat....

dirty market isn't it?

Do people still use email these days? I thought that it had spammed itself into ineffectiveness. Isn't everyone on faceache these days?

The problem of that is that you receive hundreds of contacts of people you don't even know, and THEY ALL want to share small talk and their minute nonsenses of every day, as if you gave a damn !!!! I registered, and cancelled the day after!!!

I believe that people will still use the e-mail for quite a long time; by the way, have you wandered why phone companies are still a great business?.

What I don't like about my e-mail account is that it takes an eternity to load a crappy background picture of some ghostly bay or something like that, only for taking even longer downloading the final view of it ! Yeah I know, it is my lousy internet connection, but still I hate it, those kind of graphics only occupy bandwidth, they're not necessary at all.

I can personally only recommend either the full versions of Kaspersky or GData anti virus, together with Malwarebytes.

They appear to top the tables in European AV testing....but neither are free, except for testing.....

Kaspersky can usually be relatively cheaply bought on ebay. I have never used GData myself.

I do not remember Avast being tested within the first half dozen as being good....the testing comunities always say that there is not a good and free anti virus software. I believe them. It does test as being best of free, which is hardly a recommendation to my mind....

Its rather like looking for "Old and Bold Pilots".

There are Old ones and there are Bold ones, but not both together.....

See here:-

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/avast-free-antivirus,review-2208.html

Best free, not best!!

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/kaspersky-anti-virus,review-2565.html

Something here may help you:-

http://downloads.tomsguide.com/Software-Antivirus,0702-7084.html

I had the same problem. Look at this page; http://www.pcworld.com/article/170546/how_to_clean_bots.html

I had to go through the process twice as my protection, AVG, didn't remove it. I tried several free trials of cleaner software and only got clean with Trend Micro. I use that all the time now. I also have Disconnect (a program ) on Chrome and Lightbeam on FF. Both of these will block unwanted sites. Telstra shut down my access as i was sending so much spam so i had to get it reconnected. I sympathise.

Jim

I use Windows 7 with Microsoft Security essentials and for web browsing I use either MSIE, Chrome or Firefox (depending on what I'm using them for, Firefox I run on my Linux machine) which Ad Blocker Plus is available for all three.

Every virus, Trojan etc has been detected and I don't have pesky pop-ups.

For Windows 8 and higher machines MSSE is already integrated into Windows Defender.

Had that problem a time or 2. Someone used my e-mail sign-in and password to hack my e-mail account. Changing passwords cured it for me.

You say people on your address list are receiving emails from your address.

Does this mean the emails (that you knew nothing about until you were notified) have been written by someone else, and without your knowledge, they have somehow gained access to your address list.

Are these emails malicious or advertising, or what?

Hi Horace40

I have taken a screen dump from Thunderbird, below. My provider (Voice) seems to think it's not coming from my machine, but from an external site possibly the first email address. They seem to collect addresses probably from people who send emails with other peoples addresses still in them. There are 42 addresses in the example below and it keeps growing.

It's now effected probably 20-30 people on my address book.

The message is brief with a link which I'm aware some people have clicked on!