web based email

[6876]

Are such accounts best avoided?
The reason i ask is: I have had phishing attempts and viruses sent to
my hotmail account.

[Bud]

6876 wrote:
> Are such accounts best avoided?
> The reason i ask is: I have had phishing attempts and viruses sent to
> my hotmail account.
>
LOL! Who doesn't? They are useful to send emails to groups/firms/people
that might respond with unwanted material. One just needs to be aware
that their contents are suspect and delete/ignore/block undesired
replys. Myself, I enjoy replying to phishes, etc. with false data. Gives
them something to sort thru and takes up their time.

"6876" <am495@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Are such accounts best avoided?
> The reason i ask is: I have had phishing attempts and viruses sent to
> my hotmail account.
>


Phish mails go EVERYWHERE.

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[Bob Smith]

"6876" <am495@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1113234421.137823.75040@g14g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
> Are such accounts best avoided?
> The reason i ask is: I have had phishing attempts and viruses sent to
> my hotmail account.
>

Webmail is very handy to have, as one can check their email from any
computer with online service, in the world.As mentioned phishing emails go
to all email accounts. What you need to just delete those, block the senders
or report them as spam.

Bob

[Lil' Abner]

Bud <bud@large.org> wrote in news:JcSdnaEjWajyOMffRVn-qQ@comcast.com:

> 6876 wrote:
>> Are such accounts best avoided?
>> The reason i ask is: I have had phishing attempts and viruses sent to
>> my hotmail account.
>>
> LOL! Who doesn't? They are useful to send emails to groups/firms/people
> that might respond with unwanted material. One just needs to be aware
> that their contents are suspect and delete/ignore/block undesired
> replys. Myself, I enjoy replying to phishes, etc. with false data. Gives
> them something to sort thru and takes up their time.

Great minds think alike. I do that myself! Those websites will accept
anything, like credit cards and phone numbers with letters in them... :-)
And then they thank you for updating your information!

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Google Mail has some Spam and Phishing incoming detection built in in
addition to user-defined filtering.

[Charani]

On 11 Apr 2005 08:47:01 -0700, 6876 wrote:

> Are such accounts best avoided?
> The reason i ask is: I have had phishing attempts and viruses sent to
> my hotmail account.

As has everyone with an email account - some are worse than others.

The simple rule is that if you don't recognise the sender trash it,
don't even open it. Treat any mail with an attachment as suspect even
if you recognise the sender. It's better to mail them first and ask
if they've sent a mail with an attachment. Even when you recognise
the sender be cautious of opening any links contained in it. Check
with them first to see if they did send it. They could have an
infected PC and not realise it or their address may be on an infected
machine. Keep your firewall and your antivirus up to date at all
times and use programs like Ad-Aware, Spybot S+D and SpywareBlaster to
make sure your PC stays clean.

Oh - and use a decent newsreader for newsgroups.

Set your hotmail account to Address book only so that all other mail
goes directly to the junk mail folder which you set for delayed
deletion.

Hotmail used to be really bad but they've cleaned up their act quite a
bit lately.

If you want to keep a web based email account consider switching to a
mail2world account (www.mail2world.com). They seem to have quite
effective filtering. I have 3 hotmail accounts and 3 mail2world
accounts. I've yet to get any junk mail on the latter and I have no
filters set, but have to use filters to keep it out of my hotmail
accounts.