how much spam do you get everyday?

[ashish]

i read a article somewhere recently that the number of spam emails per person have gone down... i dont think that applies to me though

i get about about 70-80 spam emails a day and most of them are either about pills, software or phishing
what about you guys?

[richieg76]

He he, Im lucky, I only get about 20-30 a day, LoL.
Mine are always pills & dating. And surveys on stuff.

[snowmonkey]

I used to get somewhere between 900 to 1200 spam email every 24 hours (I have 5 email address at work) That was crazy, till we start using MX-Logic email filtering service: http://www.mxlogic.com

It's been about two months and I hardly get any spam at all.....best part about it, number of fails positive has been only "1" in past two months.


Cheers

[bensimon]

i only get about 5-10 but they all go in my spam folder on gmail, so it really doesn't bother me too much. i just pop in there every now and then and hit "delete all" and it's done with.

[jacambece]

I get almost no spam (i remove myself from the lists)

Cambece

[bensimon]

I guess that's the best thing to do...but some spam mails don't even have that option. they just come from random places.

[lperrozzi]

my gmail account normally gets hit with about 300 spam emails daily.... luckily they're caught in the spam folder

[alfred.sanders]

I get an exorbitant amount of spam but then ure Responsible Surfing to filter it out so i end up with 1 - 2 spam mail in outlook!

[DaveC2003]

Hotmail has the biggest spam problem I have came across. Everytime I log onto it I get stuff either related to viagra or porn.

I have recently noticed that someone has managed to spoof my email address and I get a spam appearing in my inbox.

As there is no way of stopping it, I signed up to Google Mail. I have been signed up with them for a while and havent had any spam appearing there at all.

Highly recommend signing up for Gmail instead of Hotmail.

[md16185]

What is with the spam? Haven't peopel learn that no one wants that?

[jadinolf]

Originally Posted by md16185

What is with the spam? Haven't peopel learn that no one wants that?

It must work or they wouldn't do it, however they will never get a penny from me because I don't even read it.

edit: to answer the question--on my ISP address: None, on gmail about 30 a day and on another web mail address about 8 a day.

Google's SPAM filter has been 99%+ effective for me. I've had gmail since 2004 and about 6 SPAMS have sneaked thought their filter.

[fritzi93]

We get 2-3 items of Spam a month in Thunderbird email. These generally come from tracking cookies picked up by my wife when she visits those "free" sites pertaining to finding old school chums, family, etc. She must use IE to visit them, they don't work with Firefox.

Here's how I deal with them:

1) SpywareBlaster (free). Currently their blacklist contains 8,752 entries, cookies from these sites are automatically blocked, they're never set in the first place. Update regularly.
2) AdAware and SpyBot (both free). Weekly I update and run BOTH programs. What one misses, the other usually catches.
3) When one of the above finds a tracking cookie, note the details. In IE, go to: Tools -> Internet Options -> Privacy -> Sites. Enter the address and hit "block". Cookie handling on this comp is normally set to accept first-party cookies and block third-party cookies. Same procedure for Mozilla Firefox if a tracking cookie happens to get in that way. Then allow the antispyware programs to delete the tracking cookie.
4) Use CCleaner (crap cleaner, free). Options -> Cookies. Move cookies you need to keep to the save list. Run the cleaner regularly.
5) You often need cookies to get on sites you subscribe to. But if visiting any sites I'm suspicious of, I'll turn off cookies altogether for that session and disable JAVA.
6) Run your antivirus regularly, of course. At least weekly I'll do a boot scan with Avast (free as well, I like free ).

Other folks have their own methods, mine seems to work tolerably well. YMMV.

[hank13]

tons and tons

[bookworm]

very little, I let Gmail deal with that and my ISP is very good as well, so the short answer is minimal

[Demotrion]

When I used hotmail I used to get tons of it, my mailbox size was exceeded couple of times just because of it. But since I moved to gmail I get none.