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Email Feedback Loops: Why They Matter

Friday, June 12th, 2009

If someone wants to unsubscribe from your list and they hit the dreaded "THIS IS SPAM" button, instead of the innocuous "UNSUBSCRIBE" button, it can cause big problems. But do you know why?
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What is or Constitutes A Spam Email

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Spam emails are emails that are essentially junk emails. They have no real purpose, other than to amuse the spammers who send them and to cause frustration and annoyance to people who receive them.
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How Can Spam Emails Be Stopped

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Receiving junk emails which are either silly, or making some fantastic claims about products may not seem like a big deal. After all, arent there more worthy causes to get uptight about, rather than receiving the odd junk mail? Well, in some ways this may be true, but for people to understand the problem with spam emails, they have to understand some facts behind spam.
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Read More About Adware, Spam and Internet

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

With a thesis on money laundering, a certain law student frequently used Google to find her online references. This easy tool was extremely useful to the student in her writing process. A couple months after beginning her project, the student became distressed to discover that her trusty search engine began leading her to a web page unrelated to money laundering.
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CAN-SPAM Five Years Later: Time for a Fresh Look at the Law

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

It's been almost 5 years since the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 went into effect, but don't think the law has faded by the wayside. Although anti-spammers have referred to the law as the YOU CAN-SPAM Act and are quick to point out shortcomings, the law is the law - and it is being enforced.
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A File with AN .LNK Extension

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

LNK files are shortcut files that link to an exe file somewhere on the system. These can build up in the central database called the registry and slow the system down drastically if they are not cleaned from time to time. Registry cleaners, such as Windows XP registry cleaner, Free registry cleaner or a Eusing registry cleaner can do the job.
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Spam Leaders

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

In 2007 Sophos made public its monthly top of global Link Spam Statistics from April to June 2007 which finds out that China and the USA are the utmost lawbreakers when it comes to countries sending unsolicited e-mail. It is easy to understand that the inspection hasn’t been done just to blame the US for spam circulation, European countries in sum have higher percentage of spam than the US do. When corresponded to 2006, this quarter noticed a worldwide 9 percent increase of junk e-mail. South Korea came in third place on the roll having 6.5 percent spam, then Poland with 4.8 percent, Germany with 4.2 percent, Brazil 4.1 percent, France 3.3 percent, Russia 3.1 percent, Turkey 2.9 percent, UK with 2.8 percent, Italy with 2.8 percent and conclusively India with 2.5 percent.
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Protecting Yourself From Cyber Crime

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Today, the Internet has become an integral part of our lives. It's a daily routine for us to log onto the internet for banking, shopping, social & business networking, job application, researching, music downloads and on other various important information retrieval, we all depend on internet.
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How many Features of the Best Spam Filtering Software Out There

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

The features of the best spam filtering software out there all share common grounds of hard work and dedication - and an ability to not only make it easy for the end user to operate their software, but to also be targeted and extremely focused in delivering their promise - which is essentially to make junk emails only a memory of the entire work process. This article will discuss on the common 3 features of great spam filtering software out there, and using this information as a guide to spot, download and even purchase the email filtering software that you need to defend yourself against the advent of spam.
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Use Yahoogroups to start your own ezine

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

List servers and list serving software can be a TOTAL NIGHTMARE. Trust me, I know…
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