Firefox

[martymas]

hi team .

recently i installed firefox.

having read on this board

where it is a safe browser.

now its on .im now getting .

porn emails from a yahoo address .

i thought firefox was protected from this..

im not a fan of porn .

so im at a loss as to how my email address got into these hands .

can some one

give me any ideas

i thought only IE got this sort of stuff .

the peole here who advocate firefox .

can you explain.i went to the fire fox site .to try and find the reason i got this stuff

but i cant find any reference to it .

so it gets uninstalled .

im a bit brassed off .

at these dirty minded mongrels.

targeting me .

any ideas.

marty

marty

[murtu52]

Well, firefox doesn't regulate spam, or interfere with any of those things. Firefox's "safe" ness is more towards spyware, popups, tracking cookies, etc., things that affect your computer. I would just set all of the unpreferable emails as spam.

[handplane]

Hi Marty,

Hope you will stay with firefox.

You said porn e-mails.

Firefox doesn't monitor your e-mails.

Don't you need to set the filters with the e-mail service you have or with the software program you have to monitor the e-mails?

Stay safe.

[martymas]

those emails i dont get with OE.

and i havent had them for several years .

some how my email address has been.

commandeered by some one once i installed firefox.

and i need to find a way to stop it.

as im not experienced with fire fox i need your advice.

the last time i got a porn email.was .

when i first started posting to techtv c.f.h

and chappy showed me how to combat that.

since then i have three emails addresses .

which i leave on the server.and one which comes to my inbox .

and very few people know that one.

so ive taken as many precautions as i know of

it may be because im not familiar with firefox.

and was open to these emails .

thanks for replying .

marty

[mikex]

I have installed FF on numerous machines and it never asked for an email addy. The problem may be on someone elses machine. Look at your emails. Many people do not cut and paste, they fwd. This is not good as your email addy is floating around peoples machines until someone less than trustworthy sees an email addy to use to sign in to a site. This is where your addy comes in to play.

Make a "How to cut and paste" email and send it to alll in your address book with an explaination as why it is bad. Reasons listed above. Along with the virus issues.

M