Best way to deal with Spam?

Firegod

Firegod

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Hi there

I run Mozilla Thunderbird for my email client and it pulls through emails from 4 accounts. It does quite a good job at getting Spam and moving it. I rarely have to check for an email that has gone astray. :)

However, there are still about 3-4 emails a day that get through and up until yesterday I would simply select once to highlight them and do right-click > mark as spam. And away they go.

Yesterday though, as soon as I highlighted one particular email Nod32 popped up and blocked the email:-

  • Win32/TrojanDownloader.Stohil.L trojan

It still gives me butterflies when I see things pop up, even though Nod32 has done it's job sterlingly and Quarantined the email. It makes me paranoid, so I spent yesterday evening doing full scans, using Malwarebytes, booting into Safe-Mode etc, just to make sure.

Is there anything else I can do to stop this? It only seems to be one account that gets 99% of the spam, and usually it's always about enlarging something or other, lol. But nothing like this!

Any apps or addons for Thunderbird? I have Adblock Plus running also.

Thanks! :cool:
 
I'm using kaspersky internet security which comes with it's own additional spam filter which works on Thunderbird link, I know you already have Nod32 so probably don't want to switch but there are other anti-spam software's, i've not used any though.
 
I always use dummey email address for things like forums/websites. Only use a main one for business transaction online purchasing and trusted friends.
I only ever log into dummy mail address via browser and never download anything from it.
 
Sorry guys, dumb question, so do you mean... I forward emails from all my other accounts to my Gmail account, then just add the one Gmail account into Thunderbird?
 
Gmail isn't immune either, but rarely lets anything through. Gmail has a clever feature that lets you change your email address and in effect use different variations for different sites.

E.g.

[email protected] [original]

[email protected]

[email protected]

All three would go to [email protected]. I use this when signing up to websites I suspect will send me crap. Once I am done with the site, I just automatically filter the correct to address and send them to the bin. :)

[I don't use [email protected], but I feel sorry for the person who does as they now have their address displayed several times on a prominent Internet forum! :p]
 
SiriusB said:
Gmail isn't immune either, but rarely lets anything through. Gmail has a clever feature that lets you change your email address and in effect use different variations for different sites.

E.g.

[email protected] [original]

[email protected]

[email protected]

All three would go to [email protected]. I use this when signing up to websites I suspect will send me crap. Once I am done with the site, I just automatically filter the correct to address and send them to the bin. :)

[I don't use [email protected], but I feel sorry for the person who does as they now have their address displayed several times on a prominent Internet forum! :p]
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Thats wicked! Didn't know about that :D
 
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