If you are administrator you must have got spam from your own email address. How does this happen? How do you stop this? If you have Sender Policy Framework published, you can specify that you only...
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McAfee launches global S.P.A.M. (Spammed Persistently All Month) Experiment. For the month of April, participants from around the world - ranging from homemakers, government executives, and students...
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by IamSAM. Text messaging has become indispensible to many people, especially the teenage set. Unfortunately it also means it has become a big target for spammers, and what makes SMS spam even worse...
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Michael Katz Founder of Message Partners agreed to do an e-mail interview with me regarding anti spam solutions. Michael Katz has worked with some of the most prominent customers in finance, banking,...
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Do you want create a throw- away email address that will help your control spam? Here is a solution for you, create an email address at Mailinator. It's so easy to create an email address, send a...
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Greylisting is a method of defending email server against SPAM emails and it is usually implemented at a MTA (Mail Transfer Agent). Greylisting is very simple to understand, send a temporary failure...
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If you are a Business Manger or Administrator planning to buy an anti spam product soon, below is a list of features that a product must have, make sure you check this before you make a decision to...
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As I mentioned in my previous blog post that I would discuss other harvesting techniques used by spammers, one popular among them is Directory Harvesting Attacks or DHA. So what is DHA? Wikipedia:-A...
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Every now and then I read interesting articles about Anti Spam products available in the market and most of the vendors claim they have 99% spam email filtering accuracy, most of the time they are...
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Here is an interesting video that discusses spam fighting software and whether it's more effective when run via the desktop or server side at ISP's. It's a great roundtable discussion the...
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COMDOM Software has announced partnerships with Redhat and Novell, the two leadng providers of Linux based operating systems. COMDOM will provide spam filtering solutions for Linux based servers used...
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A new email service called MyMail claims to eliminate all spam and insure emails stay private. Here's an excerpt from the press release: "MyMail(R) is the most elegant solution available...
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Defensio claims their solution will "end annoying comment spam." Unlike many one size fits all solutions, Defensio customizes itself to a particular blog and the preferences of the...
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This is something I picked up on Slashdot a while back that sounded interesting. The short version of receiver initiated authentication is: when a receiver receives an email from an unauthenticated...
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One of the reasons I switched to using Google's Gmail long ago was it's awesome spam filters. Previously, I tried a lot of solutions. About the only thing that's as good as Google's...
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Here is a great video I found on YouTube. He gives a great overview of how to protect yourself from spam and explains things in an easy to understand way. No technobabble here! If there is one thing...
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Protecting yourself and your computer from spam and malware has become a full time job these days. Fortunately, there are a few simple things you can do to keep your computer safe and your email...
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by Ivy on May 06, 2007
Comment spam filters have become our reality, sometimes it seems even to me that more people are there to seed the spam than to leave earnest comments. Not one spam filter is 100 percent spam proof,...
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by Ivy on April 24, 2007
We've talked about Wordpress anti-spam quick fix, Blogger has its own built in protection (such as comment authorization), and yes, there is a way to make your MT blogging experience a much nicer...
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by Ivy on April 11, 2007
As we surf many things can go wrong, even the more experienced users have been known to get their computers infected by spyware, adware and viruses or even get abused by online scams. In order to make...
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by Ivy on April 02, 2007
Well, although most of us do run some spam-combat software to keep our comment areas clean of nasty comment spam, there is also one thing you can most certainly do to improve your real comment/spam...
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by Ivy on March 29, 2007
I know we talked about disposable email addresses already, and all the benefits which come out of so handy services (no more giving your genuine email when signing up for saucy sites, for example :),...
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