HT4899 stopping spam emails to my contacts

can anyone attest: by using an iCloud email account, that it STOPs spam email from being sent to your contacts?
ils

Please explain in more detail what you want to know. The mere possession and use of an iCloud email account has no effect on what sort of email third parties might send to people who conicidentally happen to be in your contacts.

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HT4899 stopping spam

Is there anyway to report or stop spam to iphone or ipad without a mac pc? I don't have anyway to send these spam emails as an attachment to [email protected] Please help

Please explain in more detail what you want to know. The mere possession and use of an iCloud email account has no effect on what sort of email third parties might send to people who conicidentally happen to be in your contacts.

Spam Email via MUSE Contact Form

I've been experiencing a high volume of spam via my MUSE contact form on one of my websites. I know that the captcha tool is available but only if I use the Business Catalyst hosting. Using BC hosting is not an option for this website. Do you have any suggestions or solutions?
-Ben

You can use the module {module_visitoripaddress} which displays the IP address of the visitor on pages ,with form you would need to insert an input field ( custom field )
<input type="hidden" name="BCNAMECODE" value="{module_visitoripaddress}">
In addition I would also suggest to enable harder captcha which will lower down the spam submission.
http://take.ms/V9isQ
Thanks,
Sanjit

Stopping Spam Emails

Hi,
I have the following bit of code in my contact page:
<input type="hidden"
name="recipient" value="[email protected]">
But now am continually getting spam messages due to this. I
have seen other bits of code like:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">

</script>
to stop robots picking up the email, but how do I incorporate
this into the first bit of code?
Thanks in advance.

#!/usr/bin/perl --
# A simple Perl-based CGI email handler.
# Copyright 2004 Boutell.Com, Inc. Compatible with our
earlier C program.
# Released under the same license terms as Perl 5 itself.
# We ask, but do not require, that you link to
http://www.boutell.com/email/
when using this script or a
# variation of it.
use CGI;
my $sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail";
# A text file containing a list of valid email recipients and
the web pages to
# which the user should be redirected after email is sent to
each, on
# alternating lines. This allows one copy of the script to
serve multiple
# purposes without the risk that the script will be abused to
send spam.
# YOU MUST CREATE SUCH A TEXT FILE AND CHANGE THE NEXT LINE
TO ITS
# LOCATION ON THE SERVER.
my $emailConfPath = "/home/public_html/email.conf";
# Parse any submitted form fields and return an object we can
use
# to retrieve them
my $query = new CGI;
my $Email = &veryclean($query->param('Email'));
my $recipient =
&veryclean($query->param('recipient'));
my $subject = &veryclean($query->param('subject'));
my $Comments = &veryclean($query->param('Comments'));
my $Sub = &veryclean($query->param('Sub'));
#newlines allowed
if (!open(IN, "$emailConfPath")) {
&error("Configuration Error",
"The file $emailConfPath does not exist or cannot be " .
"opened. Please read the documentation before installing " .
"email.cgi.");
my $returnpage;
my $ok = 0;
while (1) {
my $recipientc = <IN>;
$recipientc =~ s/\s+$//;
if ($recipientc eq "") {
last;
my $returnpagec = <IN>;
$returnpagec =~ s/\s+$//;
if ($returnpagec eq "") {
last;
if ($recipientc eq $recipient) {
$ok = 1;
$returnpage = $returnpagec;
last;
close(IN);
if (!$ok) {
&error("Email Rejected",
"The requested destination address is not one of " .
"the permitted email recipients. Please read the " .
"documentation before installing email.cgi.");
# Open a pipe to the sendmail program
open(OUT, "|$sendmail -t");
# Use the highly convenient <<EOM notation to include
the message
# in this script more or less as it will actually appear
print OUT <<EOM
To: $recipient
Subject: $subject $Sub
Reply-To: $Email
[This message was sent through a www-email gateway.]
Email Add. : $Email
Comments : $Comments
EOM
close(OUT);
# Now redirect to the appropriate "landing" page for this
recipient.
print $query->redirect($returnpage);
exit 0;
sub clean
# Clean up any leading and trailing whitespace
# using regular expressions.
my $s = shift @_;
$s =~ s/^\s+//;
$s =~ s/\s+$//;
return $s;
sub veryclean
# Also forbid newlines by folding all internal whitespace to
# single spaces. This prevents faking extra headers to cc
# extra people.
my $s = shift @_;
$s = &clean($s);
$s =~ s/\s+$/ /g;
return $s;
sub error
# Output a valid HTML page as an error message
my($title, $content) = @_;
print $query->header;
print <<EOM
<html>
<head>
<title>$title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 align="center">$title</h1>
<p>
Email Add. : $Email
Comments : $Comments
</p>
EOM
exit 0;

Spam via non-existent contact form ???

The last couple of days I'm receiving increasing amounts of
spam emails
through the contact form of one of my websites. The contact
form is filled
in with random texts about gambling and the sender's address
is always fake.
I can see how a 'spam robot' would be able to fill in this
form and send it
to me.
But the strange thing is that yesterday, as an experiment, I
completely
deleted the page with the contact form from the site and the
same spam
emails still keep coming ?!?
The emails are still exactly formatted the way my server-side
process would
originally format them... I don't understand how this is
done.
Does anyone here have an idea how this is done and/or how to
prevent this?
Thanks in advance.
Regards, Marja

On 11 Aug 2006 in macromedia.dreamweaver, Marja de Vroed
wrote:
> The last couple of days I'm receiving increasing amounts
of spam
> emails through the contact form of one of my websites.
The contact
> form is filled in with random texts about gambling and
the sender's
> address is always fake.
>
> I can see how a 'spam robot' would be able to fill in
this form and
> send it to me.
> But the strange thing is that yesterday, as an
experiment, I
> completely deleted the page with the contact form from
the site and
> the same spam emails still keep coming ?!?
>
> The emails are still exactly formatted the way my
server-side
> process would originally format them... I don't
understand how this
> is done.
>
> Does anyone here have an idea how this is done and/or
how to prevent
> this?
Have you also deleted the script which processes the form?
They could
have set up a form or script which takes advantage of your
script. The
other possibility is latency - there were still some mails
waiting to
make their way through the system when you took the form
down.
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email:
http://makowiec.net/email.php

How can I stop spam from someone called AT&T High Speed Internet? I do not know what the email address is.

I am receiving 100's of spam emails. They are all advertising different types of products but they all say they are from AT&T High Speed Internet. I have used the junk filter on them but it does not pick them up as junk. I have to do it manually each time. I have contacted my UVerse provider and they cannot assist because it is getting through Yahoo to Thunderbird. They say that it is a problem that I will have to have assistance from Thunderbird to resolve so that I can have this listed as junk and will not have to do this manually. I am at my wit's end. Please, please help me!

Yahoo has its own junk mail filter (Spamguard), which you should confirm is enabled:
* [https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/stop-spam-yahoo-mail-sln3227.html Mail Help | - SLN3227 - Stop spam in Yahoo Mail]
The significance of this is that marking messages as junk in Thunderbird probably isn't integrated with Yahoo's system, so Yahoo may not be getting trained to block them. You might need to go into Yahoo from time to time and mark accumulated junk as spam.
Separately, there are solutions for filtering spam on your computer as the mail is downloaded from Yahoo. Thunderbird has a built-in filter, as described here: [[Thunderbird and Junk / Spam Messages]]. However, if that isn't as effective you would like, there are third party products as well.

I am receiving spam emails from my own email address and need to put a stop to it asap please.

Hi as per above, for the last week I have been receiving spam emails from my own email address. Can anyone help me please to put a stop to this and also perhaps explain how it happened? Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.

'''but not sure what you mean when you say I must not store it on my computer?'''
I was just thinking that if someone or some software agent is accessing your computer then they also have access to saved passwords if for instance it is webmail and the password is stored on Firefox, or if you store logins and passwords in any other utility.
'''I have asked my service provider again for help - waiting to hear from them. I don't store passwords in any other utility that I know of? Are passwords stored automatically somewhere on computers?'''
An obvious thing to do is also make sure you log out of email and do not leave yourself logged in or use the remember me option.
'''Yes, thank you, I always log out and never use the remember me option'''
'''Thank you for your input. I did report this to my service provider and they assured me that no one is accessing my account?
I wonder what they meant by that
possibly that the account has been accessed only from your computer and the same IP Address has been shown
Maybe just that the mail used your login and password.
'''I have asked them to verify the above - thank you. :)'''
What are the emails ? do they make sense, are they also sent to others ? and of course is it likely anyone else is using your computer and sending these emails.
'''The emails make some sort of sense but not much. As far as I know I am the only one receiving them but just to be safe I deleted my Address Book. No one else has access to my computer - I am the only one who uses it. :(('''
it is probably worth contacting them again, give a couple of examples of the emails you are referring to and tell them that you yourself did not type those emails. Ask if they can explain how this may have happened.
'''Done and awaiting their response. :) Thank you'''
As a general security measure it is also good practice
to use a limited user account for day to day work not an admin account
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/windows_security_whynot_admin.mspx
to set passwords up to login to your computer
'''what is a limited user account? Also, I am now busy adding a password to my computer and making all files private through User Accounts. Would that help do you think?'''
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/usercpl_create_password.mspx
(IIRC at one time by default XP setup an Administration account with a nul default password, an F8 reboot would get you in by just using the return key when the password prompt showed ) P.S. as mentioned method 3 in this article http://www.slideshare.net/passexpert/six-methods-to-crack-windows-admin-password-remove-unknown-windows-admin-password. Rather a serious security hole.
'''"oooh, sorry, the above paragraph is way past my limited knowledge? Will read the article again and get back to you. Thank you so much for your help so far. :)'''

I think I have opened the sobig.f virus in my hotmail account and it keeps seding emails to my contacts. How do I stop it, and will it effect any of my other transactions like internet banking/shopping, is it safe?

I think I have opened the sobig.f virus in my hotmail account and it keeps seding emails to my contacts. How do I stop it, and will it effect any of my other transactions like internet banking/shopping, is it safe To continue using my ipad ?

This isn't due to malware. There is no known malware capable of infecting an iPad that has not been jailbroken (ie, hacked to allow apps from outside the App Store).
As lizdance40 says, your Hotmail account has been hacked remotely. Change the password immediately. Hotmail accounts are popular targets, but as long as you choose a good password, and make sure that password is not the same as a password you use with any other account, you should be safe.
I disagree with lizdance40's statement that you have to abandon the account and create a new e-mail address. If a hacker is able to get back in even after changing the password, the problem is not with the account itself. There's another vulnerability of some kind somewhere. Perhaps the account allows hackers to leave a "back door" to get back in (such as with GMail's delegation feature), in which case any such feature needs to be reviewed and have settings changed. Perhaps you are checking mail in an insecure manner while on an insecure network (ie, a wireless network that requires no password). Perhaps you are using a password on multiple accounts, and a different account has been compromised. Perhaps a hacker has used knowledge gained by prior access to your account to achieve "social hacking" (ie, convincing a tech to give him access because he has "forgotten the password"). There are many scenarios, but there's no good reason to abandon the account entirely.

I have taken off/turned off iCloud on my mac mini but when I write an email and use contacts it will convert a non iCloud email to and iCloud email automatically. I really don't want this. Any way to stop this automatic conversion?

I have taken off/turned off iCloud on my mac mini (OS 10.8) but when I send an email and use contacts , it will convert the non - iCloud email to an iCloud email automatically. Anyway to stop this automatic conversation?

Robert...
the iCloud webserver wont accept my password for a .mac login, nor will it allow me to change it
See if you can change your password > Apple - My Apple ID
If that doesn't help, launch iTunes on your computer.
From the iTunes menu bar click iTunes / Preferences then select the Advanced tab.
Click: Reset warnings and Reset cache
Click OK.
Restart your computer.
If that that doesn't help...
Moreover, when I try to go into my .mac account on the web,
Delete all apple cookies and empty your browser cache.
See if you can access your account at iCloud.com

How do I only allow people on my buddy list to contact me (and stop spam)

How do I only allow people on my buddy list to contact me (and stop spam)

Go to iChats prefs/accounts

I have a virus - or something - where everyday someone is sending a spam email out to everyone on my mail list - how do i get it to stop?

i have a virus - or something where someone is getting into my mail and sending out spam email to everyone on my mail list - people who i hardly even know. how do i get this to stop?
thanks.

this is the message that is going out:
Subject: (no subject)
http://sharedimage.net/httq59foldroot2.php?subpage234
Make seri0us m0ney 0nline
Gone to see a friend is all right, but I wont have my love given tothem. marcylyn aethelwine
Mon, 2 Apr 2012 18:04:48
This mail has originated outside your organization, either from an external partner or the Global Internet.
Keep this in mind if you answer this message.
it is not going to my address book because a lot of these people are not in there. it is going to people that i emailed from years ago....and it IS connected to either my me.com email or a cox.net email - these are both connected. i'll try the password change on both of these mail accounts and see if that works. a lot of these people are getting three and four emails every day....

Why am I getting frequent spam emails via iPad that are not coming through my primary email account? And how do I get them to stop?

Why am I getting frequent spam emails via iPad that are not coming through my primary email account? And how do I get them to stop?

Hi D.,
Unfortunately phishing is far too common these days. The articles below will help you determine the authenticity of the emails that you received.
Identifying fraudulent "phishing" email
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4933
Identifying legitimate emails from the iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2075
-Jason

How do I stop past email addresses I have sent to going in to my contacts? I delete them from my contact and they reappear. Thanks

I stop past email addresses I have sent to going in to my contacts?
I delete them from my contact and they reappear.
Thanks

They're probably in Mail's previous recipients window. Click the Window menu, then Previous Recipients. You can search for and delete addresses from here.
Matt

Can't stop the email spam

Anyone know how to stop junk email from coming into Apple mail? On my Windows computer, spam doesn't come through on Outlook. Verizon email settings show spam detector is on and emails are deleted. But that doesn't solve the problem on my iPad and iPhone, I can't stop the constant stream of spam email. Any ideas?

The Yahoo mail app remembers spam when it comes up again if you mark it with the Yahoo Mail app.
If you use Gmail or Yahoo mail app, they each have an icon to label emails as spam. Yahoo uses a shield icon.
if you use the stock app, tap the file folder and send to junk. In settings app, under mail, make sure it is set to "send spam to JUNK"

Just started getting about 300-400 emails per day from several fraudulent Addresses to my icloud email and am not sure how to stop receiving them, or create a rule to have them all go to Junk.When unsub, I get more. Emails from my contacts are now Junk?!

Just started getting about 300-400 emails per day from several fraudulent Addresses to my icloud email and am not sure how to stop receiving them, or create a rule to have them all go to Junk.When unsub, I get more. Emails from my contacts are now Junk?! How do I fix this? I have over 800 emails since 5Am YESTERDAY!

First, don't unsubscribe. This only tells the spammer that your email address is valid and they will send even more.
If this is only being sent from a few specific email addresses, you can set up a rules on icloud.com similar to the image below to send them to the trash. This describes how to set up a rule: http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mm6b1a3f8a.

HT4899 stopping spam emails to my contacts

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