Archive for the 'spam protection' Category

Top Anti-Spam Filter Reviews

In the race to provide the best anti-spam system to fight the ever-growing threat of spam email, there are a few which stand out among the for-pay software systems.
Some are software programs, while others are web-based systems that function by sending your email through their service before it gets to you.
The web-based filter [...]

5 Tips to Protect Yourself From the Spam in Your Inbox

You will inevitably receive some spam in your inbox - there is no getting around that fact of life.
How you handle this unwanted junk mail will go a long way toward reducing or increasing the amount of spam you will receive in the future.
It may also protect you from viruses, credit card fraud, [...]

Spam Protection - Know Thy Enemy: Viruses and Malware, Trojans and Adware

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 [...]

Whitelists - The Ultimate in Spam Protection

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 [...]

The Next Generation of Spam: Image and PDF Spam

As spam filters get increasingly effective, spammers are changing their tactics to foil anti-spam software and get through to your inbox.
Recently, this has involved a shift from the use of text-based spam to the use of embedded images and PDF file attachments as the preffered delivery method for their spammy intrusions.
Image SpamThe prevalence of [...]