spam, possible viruses

[steeljack]

ok , probably a question for the techies on the site , but for the past month I have been getting posts in my Yahoo mail "bulk mail" 'postbox ' from various greeting card mailing addresses.........see below ( I have dropped the [.com] from the posts, all were have been supposedly sent by a friend or an ex school-mate

Postcard
e-cards
E-cards
FreeWebCards
postcards this was (.org)
vintagepostcards
AmericanGreetings
egreetings

I have not opened any of these things since I don't know anyone who would send me an "e card" but I am wondering if I am suffering some sort of "bug" ..............my virus scans show nothing
thanks for any help

[whistler]

I've had the same thing recently and just deleted them. You can set up your email account so that they are automatically deleted and so don't get through to your inbox.

[MargaretR]

Because I buy almost everything on line, my email address seems to be on every spam list going. I get an average of 160 spams a day.
I have Spamhilator (free) which sorts the spam away from my Outlook Express Inbox.
A few months ago I paid about £25 (on line) for Spybot which stops website cookies from spying on which sites I look at (in the hope that this will stop some spam)
I have AVG(free) anti virus which updates and scans daily.I have a firewall.
I don't think that there is much else that can be done until spamming becomes unprofitable for the spammers - until then it is just something we have to put up with.

[entwisi]

best way is to have a disposible email address. When you sign up for a new forum give that one. wait a month or so and if there isn't any spam to it them update teh site with your 'proper' one.