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I recently heard of a really cleaver scheme
to reduce the amount of spam that we all receive. The idea is very simple. One
of the irritating things about spam is that the sender is nearly always hidden
because the headers that contain that information are forged and refer to an
innocent third party. However, the advertiser, the one causing the spam, has to
give a real email or web address otherwise how could they get any benefit from
the spam.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 10 April 2008 )
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This month I want to talk about email
again: specifically chain email letters and hoaxes.
An email chain letter is any message that,
either through overt instruction or through compelling content, encourages the
reader to pass it on.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 10 April 2008 )
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This month I want to talk about email.
Nearly all of use email to some extent both at work and at home and the issues
are the same: Spam, Phishing and Attachments. I will talk about attachments in
another column.
Spam or Unsolicited Commercial Email, as it
is also known, can be a real pain. It wastes your time and bandwidth and is
often offensive. Your email provider,
not necessarily your ISP, will probably have Spam filtering but, even if very
good, this will not be perfect.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 11 June 2007 )
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Last month I told you that even reputable
companies can install things on your computer that can compromise your security
and some signs to look out for to spot an infection. Before I leave the subject for a while I have
a couple of final points.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 10 April 2008 )
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Last month I told you that most internet connected computers are infected with various forms of Malware and that there some simple things that can be done to reduce the likelihood of infection: Firewall, Anti Virus and Updates.
Not everyone installing Malware on your computer has criminal intent. Recently it was discovered that Sony BMG had released CDs that used a form of anti-copying technology that installed a rootkit. Rootkits are used to hide files and other things from the user. A rootkit is often used by an intruder to hide the fact that a computer has been compromised. Sony may have been stupid to do this but they were not malicious. However, it soon became apparent that virus writers were creating viruses which exploited flaws in the rootkits.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 10 April 2008 )
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