Increase in spam emails

[DesDownunder]

I found that my ISP had intercepted 338 spam emails on my account. Whilst none of them got though to my computer, I did some investigation and turned up the following article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-193396/Millions-hit-virus.html

[Nick Deverill]

I have a policy of giving organisations that insist on an email address, a unique address. That way, I can determine if the email has been ripped of from somebody else. So far, Adobe are as guilty as hell since over 50% of my spam is sent to adobe@my domain.

[The Pecman]

Adobe is an evil company. I particularly hate their updaters, which run outside the normal operating system.

[Jeff Ellis]

Nick's suggestion is good. I too have done this for some years. It also allows you to create filters to catch a lot of the rubbish that still finds its way through to your inbox... once you know adobe@blah.com is going to be a waste of space then you can filter it straight to the spam folder even if your ISP's filter didn't catch it.

I recently had three trojans caught by my Kaspersky. All three were apparently associated with the adobe update system