I don’t know about you, but I’ve been getting a huge amount of spam over the recently. I used to have my mailserver simply mark the incoming emails that it thought were spam, but still to send them to me. That stopped when the junk email load got to be over 1000 junk emails per [...]
Blocking spam
One of the most useful features of our computers, at least if we connect to the Internet, is email. We can email our friends, we can email in our business activities, and we can receive emails for personal and business purposes. However, the bane of email — the thing that takes some of the fun [...]
How Can I Prevent spam?
How can I block all the spam that keeps getting into my Inbox? The solution that I use is Mailwasher Pro. Email — we love to get personal email. We need to get our business email. But, do we need to get all the junk emails, too? Back in the early 1990′s, I remember checking [...]
Keeping spam out of your Inbox
Now, how can I ignore those spam emails? How can I keep them out of my Inbox? We’ve all tried the old way – using a “block the sender” function. Basically, this is a specific filter (called a “rule” by some programs) that says “if an email comes from him, put it in the spam folder.” Whether [...]
My Computer Security Recommendations
My Philosophy: Many people want to pick their most economical solution and prefer an all-in-one anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall solution. In concept, that’s a great idea. In actual practice, I don’ think that this type of package will often be the best in all the protection categories you need. My choice of software that I [...]
Anti-Spam Programs – Reader Comments
Reader Bev Lammert has written me about an alternative anti-spam program that she’s picked: Hi, I just read my newsletter of which I love but had to comment on your Anti Spam article. You mentioned MailWasherPopFile &IHateSpam. I haven\’t tried any of them but I do use one called Spam Bully and have used it [...]
Anti-Spam Program Choices
Subscriber and long-time reader Scott Adler wrote to me about his experiences with three of the various anti-spam programs. I’ve used Mailwasher Pro and PopFile and like both, but they are entirely different in their approach to spam. My current choice is PopFile. I’ve also mentioned iHateSpam, which is from the same company that offers [...]
A Quick Look at ESET Smart Security 4 Suite
I’ve been using ESET’s Smart Security 4.0 on my main notebook for a couple of days. Regular readers will know that, although I have a couple desktop computers and a Dell Mini-10 netbook, my 5-year-old Dell Inspiron 8600 continues to be my main workhorse. I have’t given up on Sunbelt VIPRE Antivirus+Antispyware, Sunbelt Personal Firewall [...]
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