Comments on: How to prevent MSN Spam in Pidgin (Tutorial Thursday)

By: Harlan P

Harlan P — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:15:35 +0000

Thanks for the tip. This really should be the default setting on the thing.

By: Josh G

Josh G — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:54:10 +0000

Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for.

By: mnj

mnj — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:37:05 +0000

Thanks!

Completely missed the Privacy-options all-in-all! Finally the spam can stop.

By: DPN

DPN — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:02:49 +0000

Thanks a ton

By: Kai Carver

Kai Carver — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:22:50 +0000

*Thank you* so much. I've used Pidgin for years and didn't know about that feature. I'm going to miss messages from hot babes saying I looked interesting, but… Nah, in fact I won't really miss you, lynn1234, kate9876, and co. Good luck with finding whatever it is you're looking for, dear robots.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:51:45 +0000

I've recently been getting more and more spam. This morning I got three group spams involving myself and a colleague (who is in my MSN Contact list) and around 4 other addresses I don't recognise.

I've turned the 'Allow only the users on my buddy list' on and hopefully the issue will go away.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:49:44 +0000

This could be very Linux specific then. I haven't received messages from anyone who is not in my contact list.

However, I have noticed spam from those on my list. A high probability that their computers are affected.

By: James

James — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:47:27 +0000

This does not work for me. I have set to only receive messages from those on my contact list, yet I still get the spam. When I go to block, it says 'unblock'.

Even bot-sentry doesn't block all msn spam messeges. I use pidgin on linux mint.

By: James

James — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:29:59 +0000

Brilliant, thanks for that, perfect- No spam coming in now, so i'm going to stick with 'It Works!'

By: dbaranski.net

dbaranski.net — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:58:22 +0000

Pidgin MSN Spam…

For some reason the Pidgin messaging program that comes with Ubuntu seems to think users want to receive messages from the entire world. That's not necessarily a bad thing but there are too many spam bots out there to make this particular feature quit…

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:11:12 +0000

I don't use Pidgin but I'm glad you posted this because it prompted me to see if the same can be done in Kopete…and it can

For those who want to know how: go to Settings -> Configure then choose your MSN account from the list. Click Modify -> Contacs and check the box that says 'Block all users not in allow list'.

That should achieve the same result.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:44:22 +0000

Never seen a problem like this. The possibility is that your buddy's computer may be infected by a virus.

By: Chade

Chade — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:44:24 +0000

Hi, I've been getting the same spam in the last month or so, and last night I checked the same thing myself a blocked non-buddy contacts – unfortunately, I received a message which purported to be from a buddy but they were offline, and I know that they would be not online at this point.

Have you (or anyone else reading) had this problem before? Do you know any good resources for me to look at?
Much thanks in advance.

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:52:13 +0000

Hi Ajay,

nice tut. It helped me in a simple way to get rid of all those spam messages.

Thank you!

Giovanni

By: wax

wax — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:28:59 +0000

Thx, had a problem with spam for about a week now. Problem solved