Message to Norton anti-virus

[DomainPairs]

I am receiving a number of spam messages promoting Norton products with affiliate code affil91_nsw on them.

As some of you are aware I have an interest in anti-virus products and have had to help a number of people on Ebay forums and others when Norton has let them down. I appreciate your problems Norton, but filling the net with spam will not help you. I do not wish to install your products and will continue to encourage other to find alternatives, especially if you allow your affiliates to spam me.

 

[cdnav8r]

I've had a lot of these spam emails promoting the Norton Products as well. All I did was delete them, but I think I will follow your lead and email Norton/Symantec as well.

 

[DomainPairs]

Make sure you include the affiliate code. They may delete his account and refuse to pay him. I think the best way to stop spam is to make it unprofitable.

 

[AlienDude]

I just look at mail header, find user who spammed and sending email at abuse@hisprovider (or whatever email is supplied in ripe whois). Also if there is any unsubscribe link i'm getting IP for that server and sending email to provider. Works like a charm - never getting that spam again (chineese spam is exception because their providers don't care about it and allow to spam)

 

[Anthony Ng]

I didn't even know that it's a valid Norton affiliate; I ususlly delete spam-like messages on sight without even opening them.

 

[DomainPairs]

It usually doesn't do any good reporting the mail item because it will only be a temp address anyway. Spam is sent to earn the spammer money, so if you cut off his money source he stops doing it. If you look in the message there will be a sales site and this will track to a link with an affiliate account number. Sometimes they set up a temp front end without a number to confuse you and have a link from that with the code. To give you an idea of the volumes, you can buy 25 million email addresses for about $250. These are sold to numerous buyers as well. Addresses are trawled by bots from sites like this, so you should never put your addy in a posting or your sig.

 

[Anthony Ng]

>DomainPairs: Addresses are trawled by bots from sites like this, so you should never put your addy in a posting or your sig.

My take is that spam is an inevitable part of on-line life. The best way to fight it is to NEVER buy from spammers. Not putting up a valid e-mail in forum or news group or by adding something like info-at-nameslave(no-spam)-dot-com doesn't help much. Since I have dozens of active domains and need to take in legitimate e-mail for business and personal use, I am already wide open for spam. And as an Internet consultant (kind of), my on-line identity will always miss something without a professional, business-look e-mail address.