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Quick Tips For
Stopping SPAM  

If you are getting heavy SPAM and viruses then you're not alone. It's been suggested that as much as 80% of internet-email traffic on any given day is SPAM or viruses. Reading through SPAM is a waste of your time and it subjects you to potential viruses, trojan horses, and sexual material which can be quite offensive and also security risk. Here are some tips on how to win the SPAM war:

• Use so called throw-away email address when posting to public news groups and chat rooms and for your Yahoo or MS Messenger Chat accounts. You can get free email addresses at Yahoo, Hot Mail and other places. Use your personal ISP-provided email address only to communicate with trusted sources. If you are an AOL user then set up an additional email account to use for public posting purposes. When your free or spare email account starts getting abused just close it and open another.



• Take the time to set up different email addresses for different purposes. Have one for business communications, another for personal and another one for shopping online. That way you can avoid the risk of exposing one e-mail address to all of your contacts.



• If you run your own internet-website then the chances are your internet-hosting account also has ability to create new email addresses. These are addresses that will automatically forward to your main address. If you have that capability then use a unique address for each web site or mailing list that you choose to join. For example, if your site name is abc.com and you decide to join the mailing list located at xyz.com, you would join using the address xyz@abc.com. If you start getting SPAM to this address then you know that the people who run xyz.com are responsible. You can complain to them and their ISP and you can easily delete that email address.



• Don't list your email address on your own web site in plain html or as a link to a contact form. Spammers use automated robots to capture these addresses and add them to SPAM databases. Instead use an email cloaking script whenever you need to show your email address. You can search at Google.com using the phrase "email cloaking" and come up with a lot of options. Just pick the one that works best for your particular needs.



• Do not buy anything from a company that sends you SPAM. Not only might the company or offer be a scam but you are jumping right into the fire by letting spammers know that your email address is active and that you buy from spammers. Your address will be sold to thousands of other spammers.



• Never reply to a spammer or click the "remove my address" link. That only lets them know your address is good.



• If your email service or email client comes with SPAM filters use them.



• You might want to think about subscribing to a SPAM prevention service. Search on Google.com for "SPAM prevention service" and review your options. Make sure your home and business computers are running anti-spyware programs to defeat spybot spyware invasive programs, which are major security and online-privacy risk!

Following these simple tips could cut your SPAM down by as much as 90%. Wouldn't that be great!

Protect Your Most Vital Business Asset with good PC Security Software 

Homeland security, airport security, Internet security – these days we’re literally inundated with a need to protect ourselves and our property from the non-stop bombardment of potentially damaging attacks by unknown sources and entities lurking somewhere out there.

This is the reality of the world in which we live today. We can’t just lock ourselves up in our homes and wish the problems go away. Life must go on. What we’ve got to do is fight back. And we have to protect ourselves using the best possible methods, including using WGU TV website: AbuseGov! which is a unique virus fighting, anti-spyware and spam defeating place you should visit now.

Fortunately, internet-security is big business these days. There really is no end to the security options that are available on the free market. And when it comes to protecting your computer system, your protection options and extent are limited only by the balance in your bank checking account.

So much of our non-sleep time is spent on the computer. Think about your own situation. If you’re running a small business, especially when you’re just starting out, the PC often is your only other partner in the office. You entrust this partner with every crucial component of your business – your accounting, your inventory, your CRM, your communication, your vital documents, your sales and marketing information, your project management, even your on-line store.

You’re handing off quite a lot of responsibility to this partner. Granted, it’s a machine, and it’s got the internal capacity to handle such an enormous responsibility. But even the most powerful of personal computers is vulnerable if it’s not given the protection it needs to survive in this world of never-ending assault.

Viruses, hackers, SPAM, pop-ups, Trojans and more are out there lurking, waiting to bring each and every unprotected computer system to its knees. And you might not realize this, but there are programs out there that can log your keystrokes. Don’t understand the implications of this? Well, every time you enter your login name, your passwords, your credit card numbers, loggers capture and store the keystroke sequence. If you ever find unauthorized transactions on your credit cards, bank, or PayPal acount, your account numbers might have been stolen by someone using a keystroke logger.

Have you provided your business partner with the protection it needs to withstand this type of daily attack? You better hope your answer is yes. Otherwise, you’re playing a dangerous game of Russian Roulette.

A good Internet security system will keep your business and personal data safe. It will thwart viruses before they have an opportunity to wreak havoc on your computers. It will guard against unauthorized users, a.k.a. hackers and phishers – those whose sole purpose is to steal your identity. It will be able to recognize and filter out SPAM. And those annoying pop-up ads? They’ll be blocked before they even have a chance to show their ugly heads.

When you need even more protection, it’s available, too. Encrypt your instant messages and keep Instant Messaging spam, or SPIM, at bay. Internet security software can also provide you will a listing of all web contacts, inbound as well as outbound, and will notify you of instances of unauthorized access. Plus, it can filter e-mail scripts and perform other tasks to help your computer system hide from Internet scanners.

So, if you’ve not done so already, it’s time you purchase internet-security software for your computer. Be concerned about secure video too, especially if you do online-video/audio presentations.

Register your security software so you get upgrades when they are available. But don’t get too comfortable. Remember, even the most advanced Internet security suite can only guard against known enemies. And new ways of assaulting your computer are being conceived every day. And that’s the reality of the world in which we live.

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