How to get rid of email spam
I am getting pages of spam emails that started this morning and the spam email addresses are all different. I am running Outlook 2010 on my Windows 7 laptop and do not have a antivirus or malware program installed. What is the best free or paid subscription solution to get rid of this issue. I am not able to use my email. Should I install AVG antivirus and Malwarebytes? Thanks in advance for your help.
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My email provider / ISP is Grande Communications. I called their helpdesk and they said they cannot do anything about this.
what are you using for email. outlook is just the mail client, but what service are you using for email? Is it exchange, gmail, live or what?
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This is my personal home email service that I receive from my ISP, so I would think using Barracuda or a SPAM filtering appliance would be used if I hosted my own email server.
I am going to try speaking with my ISP again and if they don't offer a solution then I will have to change service. Thanks
I am going to try speaking with my ISP again and if they don't offer a solution then I will have to change service. Thanks
Consider using Mail.com instead . Excellent
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Hi gloyola1,
Whilst you are not specific, I am inferring from your posts that you are using an ISP provided email address - something like gloyola1@grande.com.
If so, and you are moving away from them, you should consider getting your own domain, and then having someone like Google (Gsuite) host it for you. You can then access it via whatever mail client you like, or via the web interface (Gmail) that you may already be familar with.
In addition, you get all the other GSuite services bundled in such as calendar, contacts, Photo Storage (integrated with your mobile phone to auto-upload if you choose), all the 'Office Apps' (spreadsheet, word processor, presentations etc), GDrive (storage), integrated maps / navigation, instant messaging, video / voice calling etc - all integrated so your correspondents can easily connect with you.
That way , if you ever decide you do want to move, and you have your own domain, then you can easily move it to another provider without having to change your email address.
Alan.
Whilst you are not specific, I am inferring from your posts that you are using an ISP provided email address - something like gloyola1@grande.com.
If so, and you are moving away from them, you should consider getting your own domain, and then having someone like Google (Gsuite) host it for you. You can then access it via whatever mail client you like, or via the web interface (Gmail) that you may already be familar with.
In addition, you get all the other GSuite services bundled in such as calendar, contacts, Photo Storage (integrated with your mobile phone to auto-upload if you choose), all the 'Office Apps' (spreadsheet, word processor, presentations etc), GDrive (storage), integrated maps / navigation, instant messaging, video / voice calling etc - all integrated so your correspondents can easily connect with you.
That way , if you ever decide you do want to move, and you have your own domain, then you can easily move it to another provider without having to change your email address.
Alan.
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Thanks for all your help.
Author given plenty of suggestions. Closing question and awarding points.
AVG / MalwareBytes won't do you any good for stopping spam.
Who is your email provider, or if your own, where and what mailserver are you running?
For example, if you push your email through Google's GSuite, they will filter spam for you:
https://gsuite.google.co.n
US$5 per user per month.
Alan.