Connection Issue

I have a DSL line. When I click on the icon in my lower bar (local area connection) I get a box which says properties and disable. I am always afraid to clck on anything that says disable but if i do would it cut off my DSl so it would cut back on the SPAM and if so is it only a click to re-connect?

 

Yes, I am fairly confident (from your description) that if you select disable, this will turn off your connection to the DSL service. However, I doubt that will help with your spam problem as the spam will just queue up at your ISP's mailserver until the next time you connect (or right click and "enable ").

To sort out spam, you'd be better advised to invest in some anti-spam software.

 

Yes spam waits for you like junk mail waits in your letterbox. It is the same thing.

Anti-spam software is only semi useful to me, as most only work at all if you only send or recieve email from people in your/an address book. You can create block rules for web sites/domains but many spam providers change thier sender info constantly. So they get through anyway. Not only that antispam software doesnt stop any email coming into your PC at all. It still comes in but is filtered from your inbox into another folder where you can choose to empty like a recycle bin in some cases.

I always put Nortons Internet Security on machines i deal with and it has a anti spam feature which is the only part of the suite i disable. I do this as it is useless and saves user being asked questions by antispam about emails they get.

The best advice to stop getting SPAM is this

1. If it gets too bad, you have to abandon your email address. Just change it even slightly. You are probably on a mailing list so you will get spam till you die. Sorry about that.

2. How most people get on emailing lists is by giving thier email address some time online to a web site for one reason or another. It is rarer, but some spam is sent to random email addresses at known domains. No stopping that. More up to your ISP to block that at thier end.

How to avoid SPAM is best achieved by not submitting your main or real email address anytime online. Some sites will require you to give an address to download something. Set up and use a Hotmail or Yahoo mail address for such purposes and you can go and empty it every now and then. Note, you must log in every so often or those types of accounts expire.

Also free anything from the web like software and music, games etc will often give you adware and spam you. 1 example is a well liked and nice program, that is terrible at attracting SPAM, its name is Incredimail. The free version brings in SPAM like a magnet, but the paid version doesn't do it.

A good tip about being online is NOTHING IS REALLY FREE OR WITHOUT COST.

Hope i made your brain hurt some more

 

Spam

Thanks- I do have a separate address but it still come in. I guess it is a cost of owning a computer until the people at MS do something.

 

Actually no.

If you changed accounts and didnt give out the address then more than likely you had or have some spyware running that is broadcasting your address.
When I have to register at a website I have a yahoo account for that.

My home account provided by my isp has a "." in it which may help but I am proud to say I have never gotten a peice of spam in it for 2 years.