I would suggest people do this because they might not be aware that they had a trojan on their system, they might have been snooped on without their knowledge and because PN can't confirm for certain that the usernames and passwords haven't been compromised. It will come down to individual preferences, I only stated what I would do under the same circumstances.

I think that suggestion (although good and discussed last time) will have to wait for another thread...

Somebody on the PN forum says that MMM is ineffective against this spam attack for some reason. See here for their post.

I've used MailWasher Pro successfully to filter it

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I think it's also time the Plusnet changed the accepted passwords that can be used, 5-8 characters - lowercase - starting with a number - it doesn't allow for very strong passwords.

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This is something PUG amongst others have been requesting for quite some time. The suggestion is listed in PUGIT as PUGIT ID29. If current customers haven't voted for this and would like it then they can do so to help show PN how much we want to be able to create stronger passwords.

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I would suggest people do this because they might not be aware that they had a trojan on their system, they might have been snooped on without their knowledge and because PN can't confirm for certain that the usernames and passwords haven't been compromised.

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They should make sure they've run a full-sweep of a freshly downloaded/installed virus/anti-spyware solution before they do though - otherwise the trojan will just get their new details as well!

I was going to say that too but completely forgot.

Some of this posted previously:

For combating spam there's a few things I can suggest. If the spam is going to a specific address that you don't use then you can use the Manage My Mail tool on the portal to create a redirect for that address and send it to the blackhole address [email protected]

If the spam is being sent to multiple addresses that aren't in use then you can turn off the catch all address via the portal tool.

If you don't have the spam protection switched on then you can again do this via the portal (on most accounts) and it will scan the mails for spam and mark the subject. Of the spams I'm receiving from this the spam protection is catching almost all of them. You can then use messages rules within you mail client to move emails with [-SPAM-] in the subject to the bin.

If you only use the postmaster@... address for communications from us then you could set up a rule in the mail client to only receive mail from our email addresses and bin everything else.

You can use software like Mailwasher to filter the mails. Some mail clients also will do spam scanning.

The following are worth a read:

http://usertools.plus.net/tutorials/?id=4
http://usertools.plus.net/tutorials/id/28

Gmail has pretty good virus and spam filtering built in You can also mark messages as spam or not spam to help the system learn and setup whatever filters you want.

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gMail and Hotmail allow you to also use the accounts to download from your normal pop3 server

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I think Hotmail charge for this, however Gmail and Yahoo do not. Yahoo needs you to opt-in to receive a mail from them every so often.

>I think Hotmail charge for this

They didn't used to but I haven't check recently.