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Re: Forum posts have become spam!
I unsubscribed from one, and received about 3 or 4 more a few hours later. The last one I received was a little over 24 hours ago, so hopefully they have been contained. Now, about all those spam emails from VA Rate Guide, LumiGuard Solar Lights, and ADT (to name a few) that flood our inboxes daily...I wish THOSE would stop.0Views0likes5CommentsRe: SOON TO BE 2021 ... AND THE COX WEB-MAIL "SPAM BOMBARDMENT" STILL CONTINUES
I get those same garbage ones, and the Wells Fargo one I have received twice, both times from what turned out to be from cox.com accounts. These spam emails are bad enough, but when the source is a Cox account, it makes it even more suspicious and frustrating, and you figure more would be done about it since it’s internal. I report it as abuse, but nothing seems to be done.3Views0likes2CommentsRe: SOON TO BE 2021 ... AND THE COX WEB-MAIL "SPAM BOMBARDMENT" STILL CONTINUES
That would have been about the time (my estimate is October, 2019) that the floodgates for this god-awful spam opened up and have yet to close, despite numerous complaints about it (including several by myself). You can’t block the address because they just change the address, plus you only have a limited number of addresses to block. The only relief I have found is using Outlook. After creating a few rules, Outlook does a decent job of weeding out the spam. However, only the Windows based version will do it (the iPhone app is useless), and once in a while, a “bug” gets into the system that requires you to re-enter your username and password for Cox. When that happens, it essentially resets everything as far as filtering, renders existing filters useless, and the program “unlearns” what is spam. So for a few days, the Spam flows through like raw sewage. Does Cox plant these bugs to let this ** through? It can be sooooo frustrating. I’ve just about had it and have a Gmail account set up. Might just be a matter of time (and the effort of notifying people tied to this address) that I’m switching.2Views0likes1CommentOutlook keeps asking for username and password, then spam filters stop working.
Is this some kind of built in sabotage within the Cox email system? For a couple of weeks, Cox will filter out the SAME LOVELY JUNK SPAM THAT COMES THROUGH ABSOLUTELY 100% UNSOLICITED ON IT’S SERVERs. Then all of a sudden, Outlook asks for my username and password. Right after that, the filters stop working, and it is as if every rule that I have set up in Outlook to block this UNSOLICITED JUNK doesn’t exist. Is this a built-in sabotage mechanism that makes sure that this JUNK gets through even if we don’t want it?381Views0likes1CommentRe: Blocking two sites, via time out, all other sites work.
I have had a similar problem with a music file sharing website (and yes, it is totally legal, as the bands on there encourage the trading of their live recordings) shnflac.net. I keep getting the same connection time out error. I tried changing browsers, even tried connecting from another device: same result. I tried connecting via LTE on my phone, and it worked fine, so I figure it has to be something on Cox’s end. I tried resetting my modem, and was able to access one screen on the site before it went back to the same connection time out error. I tried other steps in a YouTube video such as releasing the IP address, flushing DNS, and renewing the DNS; and trying to create an alternate tcpip, but no luck. Is Cox blocking sites, because I know someone who has XFinity and never had this problem.9Views0likes0CommentsRe: Call blocking of Spam
I just gave up on Nomorobo and bought a phone with built in call blocking. Just set it to screen all calls, entered the contacts that called me the most so they’ll get through right away, and figured the rest of the real callers will announce their name when prompted. Best investment ever.52Views1like1CommentRe: Is it just me or has Cox changed their spam filters in the last few months?
It’s absolutely horrible. Every day: American Home Warranty, Lifeline Screening of America, Splash Wine. And blocking the address does nothing because they just change addresses. Outlook does tend to block them once you create rules and it runs for a while. But every now and then, Cox’s servers log you off and make you re-enter your credentials. When that happens, the filters essentially unlearn the spam rules and everything gets through again as if the filters don’t exist. It makes for EXTREME frustration. It all started last October after Cox was doing a decent job filtering these spammers on their end; now they essentially do nothing to stop them.2Views0likes1CommentRe: Outlook keeps prompting to "Enter Network Password"
It is ABSOLUTELY HOPELESS. I have created a rule that says “Move all messages from 123inkjets Offer to Spam”. Still comes to my Inbox. I run the rule manually on the Run Rules Now feature, and it’s as if it’s invisible and it stays there. No difference in spacing in the From and it just absolutely ignores it. I have: Apply this rule after the message arrives from123inkjets Offer (from people or public group) Move it to Spam folder (move it to the specified folder) AND IT DOES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I CREATE THE SAME RULE.3Views0likes0Comments