Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

[Scratcher]

I have had an email account for many years without having problems with SPAM mails. However, in the last few days the SPAM mails are flooding in, approximately 50 per day. What could have caused this and is there any way to stop it?

Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this.

Scratcher

Sorry for the double post

 

[cardgame]

When you give out your email in order to register for something. Like disreputable forums. Or a browser game. Sometimes these sites will sell your email to spammers.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I have had an email account for many years without having problems with SPAM mails. However, in the last few days the SPAM mails are flooding in, approximately 50 per day. What could have caused this and is there any way to stop it?

Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this.

Scratcher

Probably your email got into a spam list. Basically theres about three ways to get onto a spam list:
a) Google your email address. It may be online somewhere and a robot picked it up.
b) If you registered for anything its possible that an unscrupulous webmaster sold all the emails to a spammer.
c) Spambots sometimes do a dictionary method where I think they change one letter at a time and see what bounces. Theres not much to do about that other than use an email with a good spam filter.

 

[Scratcher]

Thanks for the replies. All of the spam mails are being picked up by the spam filter. Is there anyway of stopping this, or am I resigned to deleting 50 spam mails a day for the rest of my life?

Scratcher

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Thanks for the replies. All of the spam mails are being picked up by the spam filter. Is there anyway of stopping this, or am I resigned to deleting 50 spam mails a day for the rest of my life?

Scratcher

What email you use? Most will autodelete spam after 30 days or so.

 

[Scratcher]

I use a yahoo account, and it does have a 30 day auto delete function. I guess I just have to let it do its work.

Thanks for the replies.

Scratcher

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

OK I think Im learning. Now a Gmail question:
I used to use this script to show unlabeled emails in Gmail. Now it just makes a search box pop up.

So I tried the -label:{label1, label2, "label with multiple words"} but messages that do have labels still show up. I also tried putting in -label:label1, -label:"label with multiple words" but that gave no results.

Does anybody had any other suggestions? I am using Thunderbird (mainly to delete a lot of old attachments) but I didn't really see anything there. (Its hard to tell from the All Mail view in Thunderbird if a message is labelled). I also didn't get too much in google.(I also looked at Thunderbird addons but didnt see much. I dont really need to sync my contacts).

I also did search for more updated versions of the addon, the one I linked to seems to be the newest.

OK i finally figured it out. I installed an older version of the script and switched to the older version of Gmail temporarily.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I have a DVD with some messed up timestamps or whatever their called. When you open up the VTS*.VOB files they all have messed up times, and the whole DVD appears to be 0:00 when its really an hour and a half.

Ive figured I should reencode it. I tried DVD Shrink with different compression options, both full backup and re-author, but the new files do the same thing. Id rather not convert it to another format and back and Id like to use just free programs. Does anybody have a suggestion for a free program that can do this?

Right now I am trying this but if anybody has any other suggestions that would help.

EDIT: By accident, I found this.

ANOTHER EDIT: Im not worried about preserving the DVD menus.

STILL ANOTHER EDIT. Heres another question. In the summers I like to encode videos overnight as its colder then, temperature wise, less overheating. Am I the only one?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

STILL ANOTHER EDIT. Heres another question. In the summers I like to encode videos overnight as its colder then, temperature wise, less overheating. Am I the only one?

Im sure you arent the only one, but if encoding is causing your computer to overheat (which is to say begin to error due to thermal effects on the components, or outright crash) and not merely run at a relatively high temperature, then you have bigger issues.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

well mine's not overheated yet, but last summer it BSOD'd.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I just tried DVD Rebuilder and it just messed up the timestamps more.... hmmm....

EDIT: I might just encode it at 100% quality with AutoGK and reauthor it... sigh.

One other thing. It is not due to DRM as the disc is not DRMd.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

How do I get Norton 360 Premier Edition to allow cookies from certain sites?

 

[cardgame]

Dump Norton.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Why does this early 90s computer book say this?

If you ever see smoke coming out of your computer, something is burning.

Seriously, isnt that obvious? Where else does smoke come from.

OK, the serious question. Is there any other cause of smoke than burning?

 

[civ_king]

electrical fire

 

[cardgame]

Why does this early 90s computer book say this?

Seriously, isnt that obvious? Where else does smoke come from.

OK, the serious question. Is there any other cause of smoke than burning?

electrical fire

Mr. Reading Comprehension has a sad.

 

[Scratcher]

Why does this early 90s computer book say this?

Seriously, isnt that obvious? Where else does smoke come from.

OK, the serious question. Is there any other cause of smoke than burning?

A tear gas canister?

By the way my 50 spam mails a day just stopped.

Scratcher

 

[civ_king]

Mr. Reading Comprehension has a sad.

There's no actual flames, just smoke. Depending on what you think burning means it could have electrical fires count

 

[Cutlass]

What's a common lifespan for LCD monitors?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Well kept? A decade at least.