e-mail, websites, privacy

hello,

I’m getting a lot of advertising in my e-mail, and I want to stop this.
this is a part of an e-mail I got:

>> Hi!
>> You have signed up to get the latest news
>> for Ricky Martin.

I never did sign up, never went to a website even related to ricky martin.
What is this??????:confused:

I also got an e-mail from microsoft about a developers convention.
I did go to the ms website, but never subscribed to anyhing.
did I activated somthig as "autosubscribe" or something.

How do websites get my e-mail address and how do I change this?
I want to give them another address they can use, not this one.

I’m curious what else do they know about me (how do I prevent that) and how do they do it. A friend of mine told me it was a file that they accessed but I can’t find it.

Any info on this topic is welcome.

its all gimics man relax, any company you give your e-mail adress to will sell it to other companies for profit, thats why you get all those stupid e-mails, you didn't sign up for nothing then igonre it, if the e-mails for that individual keep coming the unsubscribe, by law they have to unsubscribe you.

thanks no-one,


but the weird thing is, it is an alias that never use. I have never sent an e-mail or posted this adres an a website.

doesn't matter.... read your mail provider's terms and conditions. They most likely reserve the right to tell their affiliates your email address. Then their affiliates tell their affiliates affiliates. And on and on, until you are getting junk every day...

thx,

so I guess i'll have to delete those stupid mails and deal with it.:p

You can reply to them and tell them not to email you anymore. And if that doesn't work than threaten them.

I changed my e-mail address last week because I was getting such a ridiculous amount of unsolicited mail (~20 message per day). That's the only guaranteed solution.

Other than that, you can try responding to them and asking them to stop sending you stuff... which may backfire by demonstrating to them that someone is reading them. You can try to get a filter/blocker, though I don't know where you could do that, or whether it would work with your service.

when I delete this alias, won't they be able to see an other alias?
I surtenly don't want them to use my 'good' alias.


I don't think it is my ISP who gave this info to these companies, because non of friends with the same ISP get those mails.

I'll try to unsubscribe and if that doesn't work I'll mail my ISP.

And if that doesn't work, I'll threaten them and say I know Troll_King. I'm sure they will back of then :D


thank you guys for all your help.

Title: unsubscibe

Message: unsubscibe

Do that, I belive that should do the trick.

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Originally posted by gamegod3001
Title: unsubscibe

Message: unsubscibe

Do that, I belive that should do the trick.

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noooooo! then they know your account is a live one!!!! and they will spam you even more!!!!!!

all right, I'll wait for now.If it is getting to annoying i'll try to unsubscribe

Reply back with a computer virus. Do it from your local university.

yes, I'll do that. got any ideas wich one

Ask them to stop first. If they don't listen than write your own virus and send it to them from an anonymous source.

Are you serious or are you joking?

I don't know if he's serious, but he's wrong. Don't do anything illegal. Try to unsubscribe first. If you have the capacities, and you suspect it's a smaller corp or mailing list, get a huge (50MB+) picture featuring a huge "unsubscribe" text. Call it "IDontwantyourjunkpleasestopspammingme.jpg" and send it. Most of them understand what you are saying if you do it once or twice. You'll need the capacity for it, but then, if you have a flatrate at home, and dont need your comp when you are sleeping and at work/school, you have about 16 hours of free capacities... and it's completely legal to trash their inbox, after all, they do it every day. ( ever got a 1.5 GB attachment *g* I never got any mail from them after that... ). You might want to seperate it in smaller junks because your own mailprovider might not be fond of one large attachment *g*

Filtering might be the easiest way though.

I think in europe we have good chances to make spamming illegal... they approved the first laws leading in the right direction.

I'd personally take the illegal route. It's more effective, plus you save many other people the mysery of recieving junk mail.

i realy hate viruses, so I'm not going to be one who creates them.

as for the 50+MB mail, that wont be a big problem, becaus I have DSL

but i'll wait a bit and see what will happen

I hope this law will be there soon (very soon)

Yeah you hate viruses but you didn't think about it.

I also don't like virii that multiply to infect the whole internet, but a virii that I create myself will target just one computer and no innocents will get infected by it.

>>plus you save many other people the mysery of recieving junk mail.

then I'll say to those other people what nvoigt said to me:
spam them to death.

You won't know them. Too many people suffer privately. About 98% of the cases are unreported. There is no effective means to regulate email spam.

Let's say I have the knowledge to create a virus (but i don't),
and it puts their systems down for one day. this company will lose money becaus of that. I'dont think they will hesitate to sue me for it (i know i wouldn't if my company lost money)

that is true, I won't know them.
but did you knew me befor this thread?

what I mean is, when someone is having the same problem and ask me for advice, that is the answer I will give them

You would be foolish if you let them trace you. BTW I bet you do know how to write a virus, but have not relized it yet. Do you know how to program in 'C'?

yes i know C, and i would probably be able to write some code that does damage.

But I don't know anything about internet security and stuff. that is why I started this threat.so i'm pretty sure they will be able to trace me.
And I would hate to wake up one morning with the police at my front door.

Don't suppose that a virus has to do damage. A virus could simply create text files all over the place with a message such as "Stop sending people junk mail".

Getting traced has to do with location. If you walk into a public center such as a university and anonymously use one of their computers than you can not be traced.

All you need to know in order to write a virus is 'C'.

It is just a matter of opinions. You would take the illegal way, I wouldn’t

But this could all be solved if you would be able to hide your e-mail address.

troll_king your such a reatard...

do you think people are gonna send spam from their account... no they spoof the mail... ISP clamp down on spammers real fast...

try sending a virus to [email protected] troll king you retard

You are a coward MechanicX. I never said anything about spamming. I said to write a virus.

ISP's are every bit as retarded as your family.

LOL that wasnt me.....

but I do agree with him(Unregistered) you are a retard

I am aware of your kindergarten tricks. I was once a member but have since grown up. I wish that your parents would reconsider letting you use the computer. Adults have had enough of your bull****.

do whatever you want, but normally, these spammers hide or mask their e-mail address, so you won't be able to send anything to them just by hitting Reply-to

and writing a virus wouldn't do no good, I don't thina that a spammer would be that stupid and download an attachment from the spamee.

There is a law (in the USA) that lets people sue spammers, I've heard it from people who have done it and have gotten good amounts of cash

Oskilian

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Originally posted by oskilian
do whatever you want, but normally, these spammers hide or mask their e-mail address, so you won't be able to send anything to them just by hitting Reply-to

and writing a virus wouldn't do no good, I don't thina that a spammer would be that stupid and download an attachment from the spamee.

There is a law (in the USA) that lets people sue spammers, I've heard it from people who have done it and have gotten good amounts of cash

Oskilian

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no **** but dont tell troll king hes wrong... he cant take it... hell just use his pathetic age insults on us all... :) i posted about spammers hiding their e-mails but he seems to disregard any information that disproves his retarded ideas...

You can write a virus with C? Not that I want to, but my curiousity is now aroused.

well yes you can... but they are not talking about virii in this post... they just want to make malicious code that kills the spammers comp... you can write a true virii in c but it would not be a very good one... the best language for virii is ASM due to reasons of stealth...

Actually the main purpose I started this thread was to find out how the knew my e-mail address and what can I do about it (how to hide it).
I was wondering what else they knew about me(like IP and stuff)

I do not have the knowledge to write a virus in C. the only thing I can do is make a .exe file that does some damage (ex. Delete some files).

>>they just want to make malicious code that kills the spammers comp

I do not! I want to get rid of them in a legal way

Drive down there in the dead of night and destroy all their computers? I'll run a whois query to get their adress for you :D

Sure it's not INCREDIBLY legal but so long as you don't get caught...

You can write a virus in any language, Even BASIC! Most trojans are actually written in VB (Which is because its winsock functions are really easy).

Truly great viruses are written in ASM, though - control of the computer at the hardware level, with incredible speed and smaller file sizes; now that's something. I've always wanted to write a b*tch of an ASM virus that starts up with windows and then writes over critical parts in memory, effectively crashing the computer. I wouldn't want to unleash it, just want to write it in order to test my skill as an ASM programmer...

:)

Ken, you're an ASM programmer?

hey Ken,

If I’m not mistaken, you where looking for some asm tutorials a while ago. Which one did you use (or books) and which compiler? Do you use the inline asm of VC++

Reason I ask this is because I want to learn some asm myself
BTW is it hard?

Yeah, I do ASM and C...I'm not so good in ASM as C but I'm still learning...


Uhh...maybe a month~2 ago I was looking for ASM tutorials. I got this book called "Assembly Language Step By Step second edition" written by Jeff Duntemann

and I visit programmersheaven.com (gasp!) every once in a while to check their ASM stuff (tutorials and forum)