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by Jayaprakash Kannoth on May 21, 2008
Message Partners recently announced Anti Spam protection for Mac OS X email and collaboration servers. MPP provides services like spam filtering, anti virus protection, content filtering, and email ar...
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by Jayaprakash Kannoth on April 9, 2008
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 se...
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by Jayaprakash Kannoth on April 1, 2008
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 t...
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by Sue Walsh on March 21, 2008
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 than the kin...
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by Jayaprakash Kannoth on March 21, 2008
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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by Jayaprakash Kannoth on March 16, 2008
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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by Jayaprakash Kannoth on March 12, 2008
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 m...
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by Jayaprakash Kannoth on March 8, 2008
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 bu...
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by Jayaprakash Kannoth on March 6, 2008
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 D...
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by Jayaprakash Kannoth on March 5, 2008
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 cor...
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by Sue Walsh on December 9, 2007
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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by Sue Walsh on November 25, 2007
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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by Sue Walsh on November 16, 2007
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 toda...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on November 12, 2007
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 author(s)...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on November 4, 2007
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 do...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on November 2, 2007
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 sp...
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by Sue Walsh on November 1, 2007
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 s...
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by Sue Walsh on October 21, 2007
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 accou...
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by Ivy on May 6, 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, b...
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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 mak...
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by Ivy on April 2, 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 ra...
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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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, Spam News
by Ivy on March 26, 2007
Security Focus warns that the number of botnets has almost tripled in the last couple of weeks:
"The weekly tally of bot-infected PCs tracked by the group rose to nearly 1.2 million this week, up...
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by Ivy on March 7, 2007
We all love forums, because you can share your opinion, get expert advice, exchange news with members, form communities and stay within boundaries, since there are always moderators to delete any post...
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, Spam News
by Ivy on February 22, 2007
Fighting spam in not a chore for the slow-thinkers. As spammers adapt swiftly, so must the fighters, and HexView says there could be a good statistical chance to significantly lower amount of spam.
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by Ivy on February 14, 2007
I'm getting a feeling that a lot of security experts, already burnt by the massive spread of e-mail spam, are now getting over excited about SPIT, working to extinguish the crime before it's c...
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by Ivy on January 16, 2007
I don't know how prevalent SPIT really is, but Grand Central recently deployed first of a kind VOIP spam filter. The press release says:
"(GrandCentral Communications) announced the release o...
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by Ivy on January 15, 2007
Although I don't usually mend people's computers for free, nor for money anymore, I recently got a hysterical plead from my mother to check out what's going on with their neighbor's co...
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by Ivy on January 3, 2007
Well, I'm sure a lot of you don't know squat about html or encoding, but would still like to be able to have e-mail contact with your readers.
So, instead of surfing the web and googling(TM) ...
