Stamp Out SPAM

Effectively stopping spam over the long-term requires much more than blocking individual IP addresses and creating rules based on keywords that spammers typically use. The increasing sophistication of spam tools coupled with the increasing number of spammers in the wild has created a hyper-evolution in the variety and volume of spam. Read Full Story

As long as online marketers profit from its use, email spam will be a serious problem for businesses of all sizes. The millions of spam messages sent every day can drain a system's bandwidth, increase storage requirements and hamper employee productivity. To make their misdeeds even more harmful, spammers have created highly sophisticated and targeted attacks. Fraudulent email messages that sell bargain-priced pharmaceuticals, expensive watches and phony college degrees trick unsuspecting users and damage entire businesses in the process. Learn how a hosted anti-spam service provides effective, multi-layered protection against spam that preserves IT infrastructure, improves productivity and lowers costs. Request Free! Read Full Story

YouTube A prediction two years ago by IT security solutions firm Kaspersky Lab on the possible use of YouTube as a medium for disseminating spam has finally been fulfilled. Kaspersky Lab reported it has detected the mass mailing of unsolicited messages that include links to video advertisements on the popular video hosting site. However, this is the first time the company’s specialists have detected a mass mailing specifically intended to make users view an advertising video. Kaspersky Lab Content Filtering Research group recorded a mass mailing that contained a link directing users to a video advert on YouTube. There were several message variations in ... Read Full Story

Folks who begin their legitimate web home based business ventures would naturally be unaware of many of the online business rules, protocols and etiquettes. So far, as in any law, the Internet law does not forgive and forget for ignorance. One of the most significant issue that are governed by many controls over the cyberspace is Online Spamming. A novice in legitimate internet home based business are able to simply fall unintentionally into the net spamming trap at the same time as conducting web marketing activity to promote his/her legitimate web home based business. Online Spamming has lots of faces and forms depending on ... Read Full Story

SEVERAL YEARS BACK, WHEN "SPAMMING" STARTED TO BECOME ALL THE MORE A NUISANCE, several companies whose business was the transmission and dissemiation of "bulk e-mail" messages were pushing the idea that such was "environmentally-friendly" as it saved paper and ink, thereby reducing waste paper going into the landfills (as if they weren't aware of paper recycling programmes in many parts of the country). Not to mention invoking a rather pathetic and conspitatorial-sounding platitude suggesting that leading Internet services companies, "consumer rights" groups and others were "conspiring" to "prevent the further development of new and innovative marketing techniques" by spreading "lies and misstatements" about "bulk ... Read Full Story