Protect Your Email from SPAM Bots

One of the easiest ways for your email to get snatched up by a SPAM bot is to have it on your website. Still, many businesses these days fall into the trap and then wonder why they are getting 15-20 SPAM emails a day. Fortunately, there is a quick fix that will allow you to have your email on your website, but in a way that the SPAM bots cannot recognize. The way to do this is to create an image file of your email address. SPAM bots are designed to skim through text and code to find email addresses, but they cannot understand an image as it is referenced in the code by it's path. The only thing that is important to remember though is while the image is not decipherable by the SPAM bot, it's alt tag may be.

Spammers Are Bummers

Even though many authors and speakers have already said over and over again to avoid spamming there are still hundreds of marketers doing it. Why? Is it really worth the time and effort just to get delivered into spam? Spamming is like trespassing in real world, in short you are not allowed in wherever that may be. There are a lot of reasons why you shouldn't spam. And I know you might have heard a lot of it but I'll just write it down anyways so that you are reminded. Your chance to be read is .01% or less That's almost nothing. Spam folders are known to have trash emails. Only a few people look into it and most of the time they are probably only looking for something that their friends have mistakenly sent.

Mailwasher - Email Spam Software Review

Mailwasher is a piece of software that claims to be able to help you fight email spam. Here we look at how the product works and whether it is worth the money. Mailwasher is easily downloaded from the Firetrust site and is quick to get set up. Once ready, it will look at emails that are sitting on your email server before you have downloaded them. You can then elect to delete them if they look like spam. This will mean that you never have to download another spam email to your computer. On a practical note, Mailwasher is very easy to use on a day-to-day basis. I simply click the shortcut on the desktop at the start of the day and it tells me what emails are waiting to be downloaded.

Should You Be Worried About Spambots?

Spambots are automated software programs that roam the Internet looking for email addresses. They then gather them into a database that is used to blast junk emails to. Should you be worried about Spambots? After somebody published my email address on the web I was inundated with spam. I eventually had to resort to changing my email address. I'm now much more careful as to who I give my address to. Spambots are able to operate because email addresses have a familiar presentation. They simply read pages on the web and search the code looking for addresses around an "@" symbol. There are also snippets of HTML code that bots can find such as "mailto". It doesn't matter whether these are found on webpages, chatrooms or on discussion forums;

5 Tips To Stop Email Spam

It's starting to get crazy. It used to be a pleasure to get your email. Now it is a chore having to wade through dozens, even hundreds of unwanted email messages a day. Spam has reached epidemic proportions. Here are 5 things that you can do to cut down on how much unwanted junk reaches your inbox. 1) Protect Your Email Address Make sure that your email address is not visible anywhere on the web. If it is on a webpage it can be harvested by 'spambots' - computer programs that scour the Internet for email addresses to add to their spam database. Use a contact form on webpages for people to get in touch. This does not leave a footprint that spambots can use. 2) Use Disposable Email Addresses You should have one main email address that you protect by only revealing to close friends.

Free Spam Blocker - A Review of Cactus Spam Filter

The amount of spam being sent is on the rise. Unsolicited email now accounts for over 50% of email traffic. There are steps that you can take to cut down on the volume that you receive. The last line of defense is to have a personal spam filter on your computer. There are a number of filtering solutions, although most come at a cost. One of the free pieces of software is called Cactus Spam Filter. Here's our review. The product is easy to download and to install. In fact that is one of the best things about the product - ease of use. Don't be worried that you are going to have to read through another massive manual to get the thing up and running. Refreshingly, the instructions are only one page long.

How To Deal With Spam

Spam email is something that, even if you've been using the internet for just a week, you will be well aware of. Spam email is a multi million pound business meaning that despite the Government's best efforts to criminalize sending Spam and put behind bars some of the world's top internet spammers, there are a million reasons why another undesirable will start to flood your inbox with offers of new watches, stock tips and other unmentionables. So what can be done about the Spam you receive? The spammers face a never-ending battle against those who would like to protect us from the barrage of junk mail. Internet Service Providers are increasingly fighting the spam battle on the behalf of their users, adding spam filters and virus checkers so that much of the detritus email bound for your email inbox never makes it.

Free Virus Removal Programs

When looking for free virus removal programs there are a couple of things you need to lookout for which are essential to help keep your PC infection free. Firstly it is important that your virus removal program has the ability to perform automatic virus signature updates to help keep current with the latest infections as well as the ability to automatically disinfect any problems that it picks up.Most free virus removal tools will quarantine infections automatically and also allow you to set up scheduled scans but many don't offer signature updates which are crucial. So what is a computer virus and what can they do to my personal computer? A PC virus like spyware mostly comes from downloading harmful software applications from the internet which contain the infectious piece of software.

In the Fight Against Spam, the End User is the Most Exploitable Weakness

Companies employ a gamut of technologies these days to protect corporate assets, including firewalls, anti-virus suites, web proxies, spam blockers, and email scanners. Keeping up with the latest scams, exploits, and security updates requires constant vigil, and the spammers keep the pressure on by continuously expanding the footprints, complexity, and sheer volume of spam they send out. Some of it is bound to get by the spam blockers. A rising percentage of these are carrying no destructive payload themselves (thus bypassing email security that relies on malware signatures), but attempt to lure users to websites that are capable of "drive-by" infections.

CAPTCHA Compromised - Spam Ensues

Anti-spam services have been forced to delay messages from Gmail and Yahoo due to growing abuse of the mail services to send spam. Over recent months security firms have reported that the Windows Live CAPTCHA used by several online mail providers, as well as many other sites, have been broken by automated attacks. Every Internet user has probably entered a code at some point in time-"let us know you are human", "man or machine"-CAPTCHAs, Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart help ensure that online accounts can't be created until a user correctly identifies letters depicted in an image. The tactic is designed to frustrate the use of automated sign-up tools by spammers and other miscreants.