Spam
What Can We Do About Spam?
I receive approximately 5,000 emails containing spam each and every day. Well, maybe not that many, but it sure seems like it. Spam is spiraling out of control and shows no signs of stopping. The question is, where does spam come from, and can you do anything about it?
Most of the spam I receive in […]
Halt! 5 Steps to Stop Spam Emails on your Website
No one likes spam email - customers, clients, and even business owners cannot always handle the amount of spam that comes from one email address placed in a public space on the web. So if you have a website, you will want to check out these five tips that will help to reduce the spam […]
Stopping Nasty Spam from Taking over Your Inbox
There are so many different ways that people can get email addresses these days. All you need to do is find a site that offers email addresses and sign. But have you ever notice that even when you don’t share your new address, you can end up with a half a dozen spam emails in […]
Is Your Internet Provider Blocking Your Emails Port 25 - Here’s How To Fix It
Almost a week ago I found out that I couldn’t send emails using my desktop software such as (Outlook / Thunderbird). After speaking with my high speed internet provider I was told that they had recently started blocking port 25 — basically stopping me from sending emails.
So after speaking with the tech support staff they […]
How Spam Filter False Positives Harm Your Business
Unless you live in a cave –and one without a computer at that– you’re very familiar with the huge time waster that sifting through mountains of email spam can be. And while spam is a huge annoyance for employees and end users everywhere, the real costs for businesses are in time and money and […]
CAN-SPAM Five Years Later: Time for a Fresh Look at the Law
It’s been almost 5 years since the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 went into effect, but don’t think the law has faded by the wayside. Although anti-spammers have referred to the law as the YOU CAN-SPAM Act and are quick to point out shortcomings, the law is the law - and it is being enforced.
Anti-spam organizations […]
Staying Safe from Phishing
Your brave anti-spam software works hard to defend your inbox from all those messages about enlarging… um…. various things. Even more important, your spam buster also helps protect you from less-embarrassing –but more dangerous– phishing scam emails. But not entirely safe. Just in case a big bad phishing scam does get through to your […]
Product Review: SpamArrest
Does any of this sound familiar? You get so much spam that you have to keep your finger on the delete button whenever you check your email. Then you inevitably erase the one or two important messages that you really needed to see, so you have to sift through all the spam again in your […]