Image via Wikipedia Open wi-fi is just about everywhere these days. It’s found in laundromats, coffee shops, cafes, bookstores and more. As the internet service becomes more essential in our daily lives, businesses see to it that this is available to their customers. Businesses offer the service as an incentive for customers to sit down and [...]
Plus Signs in Email has an Anti-Spam Usage
May 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia Even the most advanced anti-spam filters in the world cannot filter out all the unwanted and unsolicited bulk email messages. Often, these types of messages are generated from companies who sell mailing lists of email addresses or scraped from websites where emails are openly posted. In the best of instances, these messages [...]
Reducing Spam in Your Email Inbox
April 2, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Don’t you just love junk mail? Spam-tastic, isn’t it? Of course not! Everyone hates junk mail. Everyone except for the folks who make money off of it. Did you know that spam is actually really bad for the environment? It uses up a lot of energy each year. That’s yet another reason to hate it. [...]
Keeping Your Gaming Desktop Computer Safe and Secure
March 14, 2011 by Leave a Comment
With the popularity of gaming desktops soaring, more and more people are experiencing problems with their security. Spammers and hackers are using different games as a way to send out viruses and worms that can destroy a system or prevent it from working correctly. Because of this, it is important to have some type of [...]
Is Computer Security Really That Important?
January 12, 2011 by Leave a Comment
You may ask yourself, how vulnerable is your computer to an internet security threat? With that, how often have you or someone you know been the victim of a hacker, or otherwise computer virus? These are valid questions to consider when determining whether your present or anticipated security measures are sufficient. Unfortunately, many people seem [...]
Preventing Anti-Spam False Positives
January 12, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Spam has become one of the most troublesome aspects of using the Internet. Email software developers have worked hard to develop anti-spam options that will protect their users from viruses, phishing scams and unrequested advertisements. This helps protect email users from online scams. Making reliable anti-spam features, however, is a balancing act. Some times, developers [...]
Protech, Your Provider of Quality Protection
January 6, 2011 by Leave a Comment
That’s a nice welcome change in Corporate America when big-time companies delve into the personal care arena of products revolving around the general well-being and safety of human beings. The name of the company is called Protech. And they specialize in defense and protection systems for the military, government, industrial, and even the everyday commercial [...]
The Cost of Electronic Spam
December 27, 2010 by Leave a Comment
When referring to computers and electronic communication, the term spam is the use of a messaging system to spend bulk messages that have not been requested by the recipients. The most common form of electronic spam is in e-mail. There are many other forms of spam, too. Instant messaging spam, message board spam, blog spam, [...]
Is privacy seriously threatened by spamming?
December 25, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia Spamming has become a major issue these days. There is hardly an Internet or computer user who has not experienced spam in his or her e-mail at home and work. Every year trillions of spam messages are sent online and create havoc for internet service providers and consumers around the world. The [...]