I don’t want to put hotmail.com on the comments-banned list because many of you legitimate folk are using it, but if you start having e-mail troubles, consider switching to another service. Right now, out of 25 new spammers, 15 were hotmail, and 4 were outlook. The foreign spammers are definitely using it, and it’s taking half an hour of my work time to clear these toads out of the soup every morning.
Just so you should know, hotmail.com is the origin of at least half the spam we get…
by CJ | Jul 9, 2013 | Journal | 18 comments
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If they’re identified as coming from “Outlook” that seems to suggest distributed infected PC’s, people not keeping up their anti-virus/malware protection, rather than some single malefactor with keys to unsuspecting users’ email accounts. Not sure how to make that relevant for sieving, since most Windows users have Outlook.
I uninstalled Outlook as soon as I could.
Those few times I have installed Windows, I’ve always done a custom install (not installing it was the only way one could get rid of “Clippy”, remember it?) and I always deselected Outlook. Back in the day, I wouldn’t install MSIE either, but M$ wired it in solid since, even in the face of the EU suit.
Also uninstalled as much of MSIE as I could.
Spam. I hates it.
hotmail.com redirects to outlook.com, so I think you’d be safe dropping the banhammer on anything coming from hotmail.com, especially if it makes life easier for you.
yes, but what about legitimate users (and there are) who have hotmail accounts?
I have tagged use of the word ‘simple’—don’t even use it in text, or you may end up in the spam bin.
I honestly don’t think it’s too burdensome to require a non-Hotmail email account. A gmail account can be setup in about 1 minute. Another option to consider is to allow a trusted person to help you screen out the spam storm.
Hotmail was killed in May by whoever owns it and all the accounts were migrated to Outlook.com, which is MS’s cloud version of email – trying to compete with Gmail, I presume. I thought I remembered hearing something to that effect; Google came up with this link:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hotmail-really-officially-dead-today-173800067.html
Maybe that’s why some of the spammers are showing up as Outlook? I use Outlook on my Windows machines but it shows up as Verizon.net or our company’s URL when I email from my work computer.
M$ owned/owns Hotmail. But you seem to be conflating Outlook the Windows email app, with Outlook.com the website.
They didn’t change the email addresses. (Or haven’t, yet.)
I still have a hotmail address; little used but still there.
Over here in the Land of Oz most of the spam attempts come from gmail addresses – probably because, as someone said higher up this stream, “A gmail account can be setup in about 1 minute”. That’s those in roman script anyway – the Chinese character ones come from more exotic places (to me, anyway, but possibly not to a Chinese person)
Hmmmmm, I honestly don’t know WHAT account I used with wordpress! How would one go about checking this? I’ve had a hotmail address for a zillion years, and use it for all my genealogy stuff. Sigh.
Oh! Figured it out, all I had to do was go up to the little pic of my avatar in the upper right corner and hover, then click on ‘profile.’ WAY easier than I was thinking!
I use MailWasher. My email downloads to MailWasher first. MailWasher can be taught via blacklisting email addresses and domain names and allows you to bounce emails, i.e., telling the spammer “this is an invalid email address” It also allows you to construct customized filters. There’s a free version that will only wash mail for one email address. The paid version will wash as many email addresses as you want. Once you “wash” the mail, it downloads the clean/good stuff to Outlook or whatever email program you use on your computer. It has cut my spam load way down.
Toad soup? Euwww!