 | | | For those of you discussing SPAM and email addresses. | For those of you discussing SPAM and email addresses. 2005-09-30 - By Ken Kubos
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SPAM, SPYWARE AND VIRUS PROTECTION
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Newsgroups (aka Usenet) are an important source of active email addresses
for spammers. Harvesting Software scans all groups and grabs the addresses
of posters. If you post a message on a newsgroup using your real address,
you can be sure that you will get spam.
Spammers also use software to search the web for email addresses posted on
websites. If you post your email address in plain text on your website, it
is only a matter of time before this software finds it.
You can look up "HARVESTING SOFTWARE" on Google:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22HARVESTING
+SOFTWARE%22&btnG=Google+Search
I use the Microsoft Firewall, a ZoneAlarm Firewall
(http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp), AdSubtract Pro
(http://www.adsubtract.com/) to filter out the Pop-Up's, etc., FireTrust Pro
( MailWasher Pro ) to rid myself of SPAM (http://www.mailwasher.net/),
(http://www.firetrust.com/), Norton AntiVirus (http://www.symantec.com/) and
Ad-Aware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/) to stifle all known datamining,
aggressive advertising, and tracking components. I know use Spybot - Search
& Destroy (http://spybot.eon.net.au/) to get bots and remove them and
Spyware Blaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html. By
setting a "kill bit" for spyware ActiveX controls, SpywareBlaster can
prevent the installation of any spyware ActiveX controls from a webpage.
The newest SpywareBlaster version can even block spyware/tracking cookies!
Most of them update automatically to keep you well ahead of the hackers.
Ken
"Buddhism elucidates why we are sentient."
"Karma means that you don't get away with anything."
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