Today, the Internet is reminiscent of the wildest days of the Wild, Wild, West.
Your stagecoach through the World Wide Web can be hijacked at any instant if you have no knight in firewall armor to ward off any viral intruders.
When your computer is connected to the internet with no firewall running, it is [...]
It has become increasingly common for spam to contain malicious programs or software that can be harmful to both your computer.
The purpose of these small, malicious is to perform unauthorized, usually harmful, actions, when they self-install into your computer system, and infect your programs and files.
They are commonly spread by e-mail, in the [...]
Spam was once just clutter in your inbox; now it is a commonly used vehicle for fraud, electronic crime and even corporate espionage.
The 4 Ws of spam answer the most commonly asked questions about spam.
What is Spam?Spam, also called junk email, is generally defined in the Internet industry as unsolicited commercial email (UCE).
It [...]
Phishing Scams:”Phishing” is a high-tech scam that uses spam or pop-up messages to deceive you into disclosing your credit card numbers, bank account information, Social Security number, passwords, or any other kind of confidential personal information.
Identity theft is the goal of this scam.
The phisher sends you a fraudulent email that is designed to [...]
It is virtually impossible to avoid having your email address end up on a spammer’s mailing list.
You can, however, take steps to minimize the amount of spam that you receive.
Here are to top five:Address MungingNever, ever post your permanent email address publicly online.
Posting it on a website, on USENET, or in a [...]
Spam is as prolific as the leaves on the trees and because there are so many kinds of it, it is a challenge to find the right site or organization to report spam to.
Each type of spam will violate the law in one way or another and each can be prosecuted if it can be [...]
In the early days of the Internet, spam was little more than an irritating nuisance.
However, like every other aspect of the Internet, spam has evolved to become something far more nefarious in nature.
To understand just how big a problem spam has become, it will help to realize the sheer volume of unsolicited junk [...]
There are several myths and misconceptions that abound when it comes to Phishing.
These are the top 5 most common ones:Myth #1Anti-spam software can detect phishing emailWhile anti-phishing and spam filters can decrease the number of phising emails that get into your inbox, they are not 100% effective.
Whenever anti-phishing technology keeps improving, the phishers [...]
Whitelists are quite possibly the single most effective form of spam protection available on the market today.
They are as close as you can get to totally eliminating spam from your inbox.
A whitelist is a database of trusted email addresses, IP addresses and domains.
To build the list, each one of these trusted sources [...]
Each minute of each day, there are literally thousands upon thousands of spam email messages flooding inboxes the world over.
Some of that email even goes out from what appears to be your very own email address! Where on earth do spammers get your email address? There are various ways - some are legitimate, and [...]
