Virus Checker

[pete3005]

Is there no virus checker installed, in 3 days I have had 2 .pif viruses emailed to my gym-directory.co.uk domain. Should there not be something on the server that prevents this?

Obviously I don't open them but it is very annoying that some idiot keeps sending me this crap.

Pete

[Steven]

Peter,
I will have the admin check this out for you, we disabled some extensions because a user wanted to receive xml extensions but that is the extent of all that we disabled to my knowledge.

-Steven

[Chris]

SPAM is more of a problem to me. I'm giving SPAM Assasin a go right now and am going to see just how well it works. On average I'll get about 100+ pieces of SPAM and at least two emails that have some form of virus attached to them a day. :mad:

Personally, I never have quite gotten the whole idea of "SPAM". Do they honeslty think it'll work when they send their daily crap out? Sheesh.

[pete3005]

I've been getting spam as well at my pete @ gym-directory.co.uk that isn't even on my site anywhere, so I don't know where they got it.

I am also getting lots of spam, mainly porn sites :rolleyes: , I use the email filter and it does a good job, I have reduced it now.

I also can't understand the spam thing, some companies really must be living in la-la land. There are better and more subtle ways to acquire business than spamming, which is proven to be the least effective method anyway.

Steven - thanks for looking into the .pif extension for me. I totally understand the XML thing and needing that extension to not be blocked.

Pete

[Steven]

You don't even want to know how these spammers get your e-mail address as it is just rediculous. Many of them have bots which index thousands upon thousands of sites for e-mail addresses. Once they spider the sites they return with thousands of e-mail addresses and that is how they get the addresses to spam. From now on, I suggest that everyone use the following sytax,

info [at]insiderhosting.com
replacing the above with your e-mail address.

because the robots cannot index that. The only thing we have e-mail addresses on is our own site, we receive little to no spam on our accounts.

-Steven

[Chris]

WHOIS databases are good "feeding" grounds for those bots. Not to mention annoying telemarketers. Generally, I like to refer to them all as "pigs". Nothing more, nothing less.

[Eric]

I think some spammers are well aware that most hosts provide catch-all email accounts. Within hours after opening up my account here I got a ton of spam sent to wierd addresses like rhombus [at] greenmtn.net and I don't even use an email account with the name rhombus. I can only assume they look for newly registered domain names and then send to anything@yourdomain.com hoping you will see it through the catch-all.

I've been lucky though, overall I have had very little problems with spam over the years.

[Steven]

Also something of note, if you want to disable spam going to your catch all e-mail address just put :fail: no spam allowed and set that for the default e-mail address.

-Steven

[Eric]

Yep! that worked for me :D

I actually used it on the individual names they (the spammers) were sending email to. So if you look in the headers of your spam and find the mail was sent to whoknows@yourdomain.com you can set up a forwarder like this:

whoknows ---> :fail:

It works like a charm :D

[harmonic]

Alot of spammers use brute force too.