Best Internet Security – Fighting Spam
I know I don’t speak for myself when i say that I’m sick and tired of receiving junk mail, spam or by any other name you want to call it. The marketers are out of control compared to earlier years in regards to all the spam they can send to you. Many of the best internet security programs can catch 95% or better, but it’s the other 5% that can drive you up the wall.
In 2003 President Bush signed the “can Spam” bill and the Senate approved it by a vote of 97-0. The bill prohibits senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail from using false return addresses to disguise their identity (spoofing) and the use of dictionaries to generate such mailers. In addition, it prohibits the use of misleading subject lines and requires that emails include and opt-out mechanism.
This is all well and good, but there are always people who like to “bend” the rules to where no matter what law is in place, you still don’t get any satisfaction. I get so many unsolicited e-mails that are all considered junk that it’s not even funny.
The problem is that these e-mails are now coming from other countries, and they don’t have to follow the laws of the united States. Because the Internet opens borders and thinks globally, these laws are fine and good, but do not stop the problem.
So what can you do to stop this unwanted assault on your inbox? Here are 5 guidelines to follow to help protect from spam
Number 1: Do what you can to avoid having your email address out on the net.
Watch out for spam spiders. spam spiders search the internet for e-mail addresses to e-mail junk to. Check out a web site called WebPoison.org, a site that is an open source project geared to fight the spambots and spam spiders.
There are also other programs that encode your e-mail address, making it harder for the bots and spiders to read your e-mail address.
Number 2: Get spam blocking software.
There are so many programs out there to help you with this issue. Even though some of the software is not foolproof, it does control most of the junk from getting in your inbox.
Number 3: Use the multiple email address approach.
This is something that I do and it’s one of the first things someone should do when starting out on the internet. Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail are just three of the many free e-mail providers that you can get an e-mail account from. If you’re going to subscribe to a newsletter, use your “backup” e-mail account to avoid having the e-mails showing up in your personal account.
Number 4: Attachments from people you don’t know are BAD, BAD, BAD.
Don’t open an e-mail that has been forwarded from someone you don’t know. Don’t even open any attachments either since they can contain a viruses. Being a company network is one thing since they typically block those e-mails, but your personal e-mail is a whole different story.
Number 5: Email services now have “bulk-mail” baskets.
If the provider you’re using doesn’t support this then you might want to think about moving to someone else. this option allows you to put the e-mails from people you don’t know into a “bulk” pile and then choose to let them into your circle.
I hope these guidelines help you from becoming a victim of spammers and others like them.
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Best Internet Security – Encryptions
With the way the hackers, spammers and others like them are trying to get into your computer. it’s no surprise the the best internet security program/software is what you look to have to protect you from all this. We hear in so many different areas of computer systems and/or networks using an encryption program to protect them. what about yourself? Is there a way for me to set up my system to protect me like those other guys do? The answer is, yes you can.
In this post I’ll discuss a few different ways that certain software can make you more secure.
There are two programs out there that you can use that are free to use along with source code available. They are not the only ones out there. There are so many more, but because they are free, it’s as good a place as any to start at.
Will encryption stop people from accessing my information?
My father told me once many years ago, “locks only keep honest people out”. with that being said, you should understand that encryption is that there are algorithms that are used to encrypt the information. Depending and the complexity of the coding, will make it harder for hackers to “break” the code. Code have been broken before, but that’s because the person kept working on it until he/she figured it out.
Why bother to encrypt my email?
You should be aware that email is far less secure than paper mail for two very good reasons: first, electronic data can be accessed quite easily over an Internet and secondly, electronic data is simple to copy. There is a very good chance that someone has snooped around in your email despite your best efforts to stop it.
How do I go about encrypting my email?
There are many good programs out there that can help you accomplish this. The one that I’ll mention is PGP (Pretty Good Privacy).
PGP (http://www.pgpi.org/) self-describes itself this way: This “is a program that gives your electronic mail something that it otherwise doesn’t have: Privacy. It does this by encrypting your mail so that nobody but the intended person can read it. When encrypted, the message looks like a meaningless jumble of random characters. PGP has proven itself quite capable of resisting even the most sophisticated forms of analysis aimed at reading the encrypted text.”
Why bother to encrypt my files?
Well that depends on what information you’re keeping on your computer. The more personal the information is, the more you should be encrypting the files.Most corporate Internet security employees will attest to the widespread theft of very valuable information. As long as you are connected to the Internet you are vulnerable.
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Best Internet Security Upgrade Alert
Like most people who do a lot of work on their computer as well as having a lot of different programs, it’s quite often that a window will pop up stating that a system needs to be upgraded. If you’re not careful, you just may download a virus that can destroy everything that you’ve been working on as well as crashing the computer itself. The best internet security program can even overlook the warnings because of how legitimate they seem.
Just what is Intelligent Explorer? For your safety, you really need to know
There seems to be a program out there that looks like a normal Internet Explorer upgrade, but if you look carefully, you will see that it’s a different program all together. If you are in the middle of something important you might just click the OK button without realizing that the program is really called Intelligent Explorer.
You will have more troubles than you would want to deal with in one life. It appears that Intelligent Explorer allows other software to be downloaded to your machine and this is where the problem occurs. What is even more remarkable is that by downloading Intelligent Explorer, their license grants them the right to install software add-ins on your computer at their will.
Take a look at what the software license for Intelligent Explore says (go to http://www.ieplugin.com/terms.html to read it all):
“You grant to us the right, exercisable by us until you uninstall the Software or this agreement is otherwise terminated, to provide to you the Service of downloading and causing to be displayed advertising material on your computer, through ‘pop-up’ or other display while you use your browser. You acknowledge and agree that installation of the Software may automatically modify toolbars and other settings of your browser. By installing the Software you agree to such modifications.”
If you are wondering how a company can go ahead and do something like this, the company IBC Inc. is incorporated in Belize. That should explain how a company would get away with this behavior.
Intelligent Explorer is a plug-in, which can create a new home page, as well as start up and endless loop of pop-ups. You can remove the view bar, but then starting up Internet Explorer will cause it to reappear.
What can you do to fix this if you fall victim to it? Buy a copy of a program called XoftSpy and follow the steps to remove the Intelligent Explorer. There are also other programs that will also do the job like spybot, NoAdware, Spyware Eliminator, Pal Spyware Remover, and Spyware C.O.P.
I do have to say that I’ve not had to purchase any of these programs since I’m very careful with what is downloaded into my computers and laptops.
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