This week, I downloaded and installed Mailwasher Pro 2010 on my main desktop computer. I’m impressed… So much so that I’ve already purchased 3 licenses for my family’s computers. Mailwasher Pro 2010, like the older Mailwasher Pro, is an anti-spam system that checks your email while it is still on the mail server (before you ever download it) — but Mailwasher Pro 2010 has been completely rewritten. It [...]
Getting Junk Emails From Yourself
Subscriber Roger Goodchild wrote me recently to ask about email problems. He was receiving emails that claimed to be from one of his email addresses — but which were spam emails. Hello Terry, A couple of days ago I got an e-mail from one of my contact asking me if I had intended sending her [...]
Controlling SPAM and Nasty Emails from a Friend
Subscriber Carolyn Waterson wrote with questions about spam and emails with malware potential that she was receiving from a friend who didn’t practice safe computing: I have a rather elderly friend whose computer keeps sending out obscene things and Viagra ads. They appear to be going to everybody in his address book! He assures me [...]
Controlling Incoming spam
Longtime subscriber and friend Choppy Cusachs wrote about his experiences with spam arriving on his domain… Hello Terry, A few years ago I got a site, [domain name removed, let's use " example.com], to use for family information sharing. I never got around to building the site, but I set up three or four addresses [...]
Router Suggestion, Mailwasher Pro and Monitors
Subscriber Bob Byrne wrote to say: Hi Terry! Thanks for another great newsletter! In regard to your router recommendation, I have used an Alpha Shield for some years now. Performance seems to be the same but in a smaller enclosure with the same filtering action. I have tried all the tests I can find to [...]
More Reader Followup on Anti-Spam Programs
In a recent online newsletter, several subscribers had written about the anti-spam systems and spam filter programs that they used to keep their mailbox clean. One of those comments was from reader Ron Spruell about his experience with Gmail’s spam filtering: I don’t know what Google does, but the Spam on this account has been [...]
Malware Presents in This Week’s Emails
Unless you have your mail sanitized for spam before you ever see it, you probably noticed a huge reduction in spam in 2009. The shutdown of a major web hosting firm is reported to have resulted in a forty to sixty percent decrease in daily spam — for a few weeks. Two Internet Service Providers [...]
Let’s Look at a Phishing Email
I received several phishing emails that were designed to get me to open them. Again, social engineering is matching the content and topic to the interests of the recipient (us), in hopes that we will unthinkingly take the actions the bad guys want. The first email looked like this: From: “Bank of America Support” <provisor05@bankofamerica.com> [...]
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