Eight Quick Tips For Stopping SPAM

Written by Cavyl Stewart


If you are buried in SPAM then you're not alone. It's been suggested that as much as 50% to 75% ofrepparttar e-mail traffic on any given day is SPAM. 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. Here are some tips on how to winrepparttar 107556 SPAM war:

1. Use a throwaway 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, HotMail 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.

2. Takerepparttar 107557 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 avoidrepparttar 107558 risk of exposing one e-mail address to all of your contacts.

3. If you own your own web site thenrepparttar 107559 chances are that your hosting account comes withrepparttar 107560 ability to create new e-mail addresses onrepparttar 107561 fly. 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 joinrepparttar 107562 mailing list located at xyz.com, you would join usingrepparttar 107563 address xyz@abc.com. If you start getting SPAM to this address then you know thatrepparttar 107564 people who run xyz.com are responsible. You can complain to them and their ISP and you can easily delete that email address.

How To Choose A Fire Wall Software Program

Written by Cavyl Stewart


Inrepparttar real world a "fire wall" is a fireproof wall that is built to stoprepparttar 107555 spread of fire from one part of a building to others. Inrepparttar 107556 Internet world a firewall has a similar purpose in that it stopsrepparttar 107557 spread of harmful viruses and attacks from entering your home or office network.

Because ofrepparttar 107558 ever-increasing threats that are appearing onrepparttar 107559 Internet you no longer have to be in business to needrepparttar 107560 protection of a fire wall. In fact, every computer that is connected torepparttar 107561 internet should have one installed. You'll be a lot happier once you know that you have protected your personal files, information, and financial data, such as credit cards and bank account numbers, from being shared with every crook onrepparttar 107562 internet.

Here are some questions that you should consider before you choose a fire wall for your PC:

1. What features do I need?

2. Do I want to be protected from viruses, Trojan horses and worms?

3. Am I at risk because I use programs that accessrepparttar 107563 Internet automatically?

4. How much am I willing to spend on a firewall solution?

Here arerepparttar 107564 common features that are available in almost any software-based fire wall program:

Inbound filtering - protects unknown users or programs from accessing your PC

Outbound filtering - Protects your PC from sending information to repparttar 107565 Internet without your permission

Application integrity verification - Verifies that any program you are running aren't sneaking around behind your back and doing things that they shouldn't be doing.

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