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more email spam from .info sources

14 years ago

I check the properties on most junk mail that I get and an increasing number are using an address that ends in .info. Gibbish names, as well (at least gibberish in English.) I have blocked several of the domain names, but is there a way I can block ".info" entirely? I use Outlook Express.

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DA_Mccoy
14 years ago
It has been a while since I used OE.

You should be able to create a message rule which would take the entire domain directly to Trash. This action would not block them, but rather dispose of them without any action on your part.

DA
sushipup1
Original Author
14 years ago
Thanks, I'll try a block -> trash on .info and see what happens. Seems like I'm getting several from that source every day. Sigh.
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There are 3 management ills released by this change: 1. Apparently, a person unqualified for IT work made the decision to go with the lower cost application. That sounds very much like purchasing making a co-called cost reduction so they can put this on their list of accomplishments. A new, very important, untried application was not tried out before unleashing it system wide. A dummy account should have been created in the "sandbox" region of the server and the application tried there for a period of time. Many of the ills you mentioned should have shown up in the sandbox version and would have been contained. This would have given the system operators a chance either correct the software or reject it. Somehow, the system's virus checker was disabled or uninstalled. The SANDBOX: Many years ago, makers of large servers included a "sandbox" in their operating system. This is a feature that carves off a section of memory, and isolates it from the remainder of the computer. When accessed from outside the installation, it appears like a complete system. Its a place to experiment and give neophytes a place to roam. Any damage done is confined to the sandbox. Also, the system operators can use the sandbox to test to see if their corporate system is under attack by intruders, by lowering the protection on the sandbox and then watching for what comes in.
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sushipup1
Original Author
14 years ago
Well, blocking ".info" didn't work as one got thru today supposedly from FTD Florists, but I'll just keep on blocking the full domain names.
mikie_gw
14 years ago
*.info

asteric = everything before that dot. you might need also
*.*.info

dont bounce back to sender !
sushipup1
Original Author
14 years ago
thanks!
sushipup1
Original Author
14 years ago
Didn't work. I had set *.info, but one just came thru fromm czechstite.info to sell me medical billing training. Sigh.
sushipup1
Original Author
14 years ago
And *.*.info didn't work either. Just got one pretending to be from DISH TV.
mikie_gw
14 years ago
click some more rules, most likely its not comming from .info then. .. they are faking the header but the real is there too maybe if you look at source. They are tricky to read with all the gar bage there.

I dont have OE to look at but quickly looked on the web...
Where the From line contains people
Where the Subject line contains specific words
Where the To or CC line contains people
Delete it from server
sushipup1
Original Author
14 years ago
I don't see anything else of an address when I check the details. There are too many to catch just using specific words in the subject, and there's always something new coming down the pike.

I'll play with it more this weekend. Just a new source of spam. I need stronger spam software, I do believe.
Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana
14 years ago
How about *@*.info ??
sushipup1
Original Author
14 years ago
Will try it.....
mike_kaiser_gw
14 years ago
You might also want to check with your ISP and ask why so much spam it making it through to your in-box. I know some ISP's and free, web-based email services offer varying degrees of filtering. You might want to check that as well.

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