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Feels like I have been marked for life

bad morning?

Ok here goes.
All the websites / social sites require registering. Setting up account etc. I have like dozen of those email address and accounts. Most of them I hardly visit / use. I just received an email from someone I havent seen for ages and I have been told off from sending the invites regularly. This is from a site I hardly visit How do you take yourself off from a particular site / account that you have registered. You know like Friendster, Face box etc.

Not a control freak but I do like to be organised. Urgh!

BabyDoll wrote:Feels like I have been marked for life

You should write a screenplay and turn it into a movie....

BabyDoll wrote:Ok here goes.
All the websites / social sites require registering. Setting up account etc. I have like dozen of those email address and accounts. Most of them I hardly visit / use. I just received an email from someone I havent seen for ages and I have been told off from sending the invites regularly. This is from a site I hardly visit How do you take yourself off from a particular site / account that you have registered. You know like Friendster, Face box etc.

Not a control freak but I do like to be organised. Urgh!

Most have a little iddy biddy thing at the bottom saying 'remove'

Of course they don't want to advertise the fact and lose subscriber numbers and slide down the popularity charts...



Knight

BabyDoll wrote:Ok here goes.
All the websites / social sites require registering. Setting up account etc. I have like dozen of those email address and accounts. Most of them I hardly visit / use. I just received an email from someone I havent seen for ages and I have been told off from sending the invites regularly. This is from a site I hardly visit How do you take yourself off from a particular site / account that you have registered. You know like Friendster, Face box etc.

Not a control freak but I do like to be organised. Urgh!

Is your friend unfamiliar with the term "spam"??? Or are they mentally challenged and this is their first computer?

craigindubai wrote:

BabyDoll wrote:Ok here goes.
All the websites / social sites require registering. Setting up account etc. I have like dozen of those email address and accounts. Most of them I hardly visit / use. I just received an email from someone I havent seen for ages and I have been told off from sending the invites regularly. This is from a site I hardly visit How do you take yourself off from a particular site / account that you have registered. You know like Friendster, Face box etc.

Not a control freak but I do like to be organised. Urgh!

Is your friend unfamiliar with the term "spam"??? Or are they mentally challenged and this is their first computer?

Ahhhhhhhhhh its that annoying bug again !!
He used to be in the army some 30 years ago!

Dubai Knight wrote:
Most have a little iddy biddy thing at the bottom saying 'remove'


Knight

And if they dont?

BabyDoll wrote:

craigindubai wrote:

BabyDoll wrote:Ok here goes.
All the websites / social sites require registering. Setting up account etc. I have like dozen of those email address and accounts. Most of them I hardly visit / use. I just received an email from someone I havent seen for ages and I have been told off from sending the invites regularly. This is from a site I hardly visit How do you take yourself off from a particular site / account that you have registered. You know like Friendster, Face box etc.

Not a control freak but I do like to be organised. Urgh!

Is your friend unfamiliar with the term "spam"??? Or are they mentally challenged and this is their first computer?

Ahhhhhhhhhh its that annoying bug again !!
He used to be in the army some 30 years ago!

So it's not his first computer then?

BabyDoll wrote:

Dubai Knight wrote:
Most have a little iddy biddy thing at the bottom saying 'remove'


Knight

And if they dont?

Email them and say 'remove'! please



Knight

Little known fact you can't actually remove your Facebook account.

^ian^ wrote:Little known fact you can't actually remove your Facebook account.

Thank goodness I am not on it then!

BabyDoll wrote:

^ian^ wrote:Little known fact you can't actually remove your Facebook account.

Thank goodness I am not on it then!

Well you are... you just don't know it.

You have 23 friends too!

^ian^ wrote:

BabyDoll wrote:

^ian^ wrote:Little known fact you can't actually remove your Facebook account.

Thank goodness I am not on it then!

Well you are... you just don't know it.

You have 23 friends too!

This is what I mean. Sometimes I don't even know how the site uploaded my address contact details. Now I "have" a Facebook account???

BabyDoll wrote:Sometimes I don't even know how the site uploaded my address contact details.

Check your computer for viruses, spyware, adware. Those things will do that stuff without you knowing. If you don't have a good firewall (the Windows XP one, and probably Vista, is not good enough), you're in trouble.

bonk wrote:

BabyDoll wrote:Sometimes I don't even know how the site uploaded my address contact details.

Check your computer for viruses, spyware, adware. Those things will do that stuff without you knowing. If you don't have a good firewall (the Windows XP one, and probably Vista, is not good enough), you're in trouble.

I think I am already IN trouble. Have ran antivirus and spyware. Restarted the computer and the first email i got was another spam mail

BabyDoll wrote:

bonk wrote:

BabyDoll wrote:Sometimes I don't even know how the site uploaded my address contact details.

Check your computer for viruses, spyware, adware. Those things will do that stuff without you knowing. If you don't have a good firewall (the Windows XP one, and probably Vista, is not good enough), you're in trouble.

I think I am already IN trouble. Have ran antivirus and spyware. Restarted the computer and the first email i got was another spam mail

You did open Mohamed.exe didn't you?

Dr.D wrote:

BabyDoll wrote:

bonk wrote:

BabyDoll wrote:Sometimes I don't even know how the site uploaded my address contact details.

Check your computer for viruses, spyware, adware. Those things will do that stuff without you knowing. If you don't have a good firewall (the Windows XP one, and probably Vista, is not good enough), you're in trouble.

I think I am already IN trouble. Have ran antivirus and spyware. Restarted the computer and the first email i got was another spam mail

You did open Mohamed.exe didn't you?

Yeah, did it start before or after you open the exe file.....?

BabyDoll wrote:Restarted the computer and the first email i got was another spam mail

Receiving spam email doesn't mean anything. I get several hundred a day. I don't know enough about Facebook or Friendster to say any more. What firewall you use?

BabyDoll wrote:I just received an email from someone I havent seen for ages and I have been told off from sending the invites regularly.

Actually, that may be nothing to do with you. Spammers use other people's email address as the "from" when sending mail so someone else gets all the bounced replies, and the blame for sending spam.

Very little you can do about it. Addresses are picked up from registration databases of dodgy sites, found from websites, or just made up.

bonk wrote:

BabyDoll wrote:I just received an email from someone I havent seen for ages and I have been told off from sending the invites regularly.

Actually, that may be nothing to do with you. Spammers use other people's email address as the "from" when sending mail so someone else gets all the bounced replies, and the blame for sending spam.

Very little you can do about it. Addresses are picked up from registration databases of dodgy sites, found from websites, or just made up.

Yeah I have been receiving emails re viagra sending it from my email address
That was before the Mohamed file!

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After virus scan, spyware scan and other preventive maintanence / upgrade - so i was told by the IT dept. Today I received Natural Manhood Enhancement email.

I give up!

BabyDoll wrote:After virus scan, spyware scan and other preventive maintanence / upgrade - so i was told by the IT dept. Today I received Natural Manhood Enhancement email.

Think of it like this. Taking your car for a service and locking the doors doesn't stop birds from crapping on it.

Good analogy I guess.

sigh

Until wireless came along, it was easy: I used a condom on the internet connection plug!



Knight

BabyDoll wrote:After virus scan, spyware scan and other preventive maintanence / upgrade - so i was told by the IT dept. Today I received Natural Manhood Enhancement email.

I give up!

Wow!! now u can proudly say U are one of the major spam victims at work and ask your it guys to fix the system.. n they'll take couple of days to figure out if there's anything wrong with the system. then when they come back n say everything is ok .. just show them the spam mail. n say thats the problem.. they'll again take yoa system n go for another 3 days.. n thats a weeks work for ya..