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Archive for August, 2006
spam update
Aug 27th
It seems that perhaps things are having an effect! The last two days have registered only 80 and 44 spams each. I know that statistically it’s probabbly too early to tell but I’m happy 
update…
Aug 24th
well, 134 messages the last 2 days, but I did find that the whois database for chrisdixon.net listed my address, so I have removed that. Apparently it can take about 3 months to see any improvement in levels of spam, so will have to wait!
Bye Bye SPAM?
Aug 22nd
OK. Tonight I have done the following.
1) Removed things that should not have been there from windows firewall.
2) Run Ad-Aware
3) Run Windows Defender (Beta)
Note: loads of good links to free software are available here: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm#3
The results were that Ad-Aware found 4 critical objects (now removed)
However windows defender did better and found 8 nasties (also removed) We will see what happens in the next few days!
Fight against SPAM
Aug 22nd
Right, I’ve had enough. I’m averaging about 120 spam messages a day!
Now the good news is that I have a good client that filters out a lot of rubish. However upwards of 100 junk messages a day is stupid. From now on I’m going to activley try to reduce them and see if I can get this trend going downwards. I suspect that the more messages are recieved when my computer has been on for a long time period, so tonight a sweep with anti spyware utils is in order. We will then see if that causes a reduction. If anyone has any more good ideas then let me know and I will try them. Watch this space….. Grrrrrrr..
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