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Emails and Spam Filters

Several people recently have had the emails, that they sent, fall victim to spam filters somewhere before getting to their recipients.
In one case of which I know, the email was sent to a mailing list. Many mailing list programs have filtering routines that are designed to block unwanted messages — not just blocking unsolicited commercial [...]

Fighting Against Spyware & Malware

Spyware is software that enables a third-party to track where you go on the Internet. Usually this does not involves specific tracking cookies and companies that specialize in tracking your visits to advertiser sites.
Although this capability has given cookies a bad name, cookies are not inherently evil. They are used for many good purposes such [...]

Email Reliability in this Internet World

How reliable is email in today’s Internet world? Perfect, isn’t it? You would think that it would be completely reliable — we use it all the time. All we’re doing is pushing around electrons and we’ve known how to do that, in one way or another, for an awfully long time.
Whether we [...]

CounterSpy, iHateSpam and Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall coupons

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IE7 Vulnerability to Phishing Attack

Security researchers at Secunia have discovered and reported another vulnerability with the newest version of Internet Explorer - IE7, as reported in heise Security’s blog.
On the day of its release, Secunia reported a vulnerability where phishers were able to spy on the content of other open windows. As usual, the recommendation was to disable [...]