Our first spam prevention guide is now posted. It is titled, Preventing Spam in the Home or Home Office. It has some great tips on controlling spam when you have 3 computers or less.
Coming soon, we’ll have guides on stopping spam in a small business and another on stopping spam in a midsized environment. (50-200 [...]
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Like snowbird NFL fans flocking to Hawaii for the Pro Bowl, (although the idiots in the NFL moved it next year) February means more spam in your mailbox. Along with florists and candy makers, spammers hope to cash in on Valentine’s Day by hawking watches, jewelery and solutions to -um- male insecurities.
But they are not [...]
Joseph Alexiou is a little nonplussed over the Obamaspam.
Barack Obama, Meet Spam Button
Since October 2008, I’ve received an average of one email every two to three days from Barack and/or Michelle Obama. That’s about 35 emails that I have no use for. All of them have the word “Change” in them. 99 percent also have [...]
It looks like the brief slowdown in spam from the shutdown of McColo, is officially over. The spammers are retooling and changing tactics. IT World Canada has the scoop.
Get ready, IT managers: the spammers are coming for you.
It’s been a “rough year for computing,” according to one Cisco Systems Inc. executive, and it could get [...]
eWeek reminds us that its been 5 years since the CAN SPAM act.
5 Years After CAN SPAM
The CAN-SPAM (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing) Act of 2003 was controversial from the start. I think it’s fair to say that nobody thought it would solve the spam problem, but many thought it could help.
Has [...]