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Intercept, read, kill spam on the server BEFORE they are downloaded to your computer!
With this software (over 3 million users and growing) you can check and delete all email BEFORE spam and viruses get into your computer's inbox!Use Secure Emailing with HushmailHushmail, recommended by EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) is a secure, advertisement-free online mail service.
The premium service at around $2.95 a month offers the capability of unlimited email aliases ... essential for the real defense of your Internet privacy!
Both the free service and the premium service are truly far superior to any other online services!
Both can be configured to send you "email received" alerts to any other email address of your choice: both have in depth spam control.
Click link for information and download.
Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO)Aside from adding the free SpamHaus bock list to your email filter (for example, you can add it easily to MalWasher), the intro to the ROKSO list is worth reading as is browsing the list!
Click link to see list
How to use the SpamHaus ServiceClick link to get
10 worst spamming: countriesClick link to see list 10 worst spamming countries, networksClick link to see list 10 worst networks/ISPs, spammersClick link to see list of 10 worst spammers
Complain to: SpamCopClick link to see list 10 worst spamming countries, networksClick link to see list 10 worst networks/ISPs, spammersClick link to see list of 10 worst spammers
Complain to the : Federal Trade CommissionClick for online form or you can simply forward spam to UCE@FTC.GOV
Who to Complain to ListingClick for world wide list of who to complain to about SPAM
Why is FirefoxThis is a full explanation by the people from Mozilla.org
Click to read their reasons safer?
Help! I am being spammed!
DON'T reply to the spammer asking him/her/them to take you off his/her/their list/s. Asking a spammer to take you off a list (opting out) merely confirms your email address is correct.
DO click on, print and read 'How Spam Works'Everything you need to know about spamming: how it works, why it works, who are the spammers, how much they earn, how do they get your email address ... and more. It is an easy read and once read you will be an expert on junk mail!
Click link to read the article in full by Marshall Brain. It will blow away any cosy ideas you have about junk mail!
How do you defend yourself against spam?
1. Use a quality spam filter like MailWasher Pro MailWasher allows you to read your emails on the server BEFORE you download your email from your computer. It will also check your Hotmail account. It has built-in learning mode, can test against several public blacklists and you can add your own filtering rules. It will stop all emails you don't want from being downloaded to your computer.
Over 5 million downloads.
Firetrust have just added a BlueSecurity facility to Mailwasher. You can now report all spam to BlueSecurity from MailWasher! Fantastic!
Click link to go to MailWasher site from Firetrust.
2. Improve your Sorry to say that thanks to bad emailing (and browsing) habits we actively help spammers harvest email addresses. This easy primer will help you improve your defensive habits
Click link to read the articleemailing habits.
3. Understand your browsing! Find out how you actively or indirectly help spammers to harvest email addresses from you and how you invite them to spam you!We can invite spammers to spam us and our friends whenever we browse the Internet without protection or get a socially-conscious email that we feel emotionally obliged to respond to. If you don't think you do that, think again!
Have you ever responded to any email petition/ chain letters? Do you feel compelled to copy and paste jokes and email them to friends? (scripts may have a codes or viruses that are triggered when opened, reads your friend's address book and send details 'home' to the spammer!)
While browsing have you ever clicked on an unexpected warning alert or enticing special offer? given your email address and forgot to opt-out of any email newsletters?
Are 'cookies' turned on while you browse? Have you ever cleaned out the cookies folder or the Temporary Internet Files folder?
Internet browsing is not for the naive! Make the Internet work for you, be informed!
Click link to see the amazing Junkbusters Guide web site
4. Get an email forwarding service or throw-away Explanations of email forwarding can be found by searching for 'email forwarding' at Google and Answers.comemail address service like Spamgourmet
This service allows you to create and use time -limited email addresses: fuller explanations are on the web site.
Click link to download or JetableAnother time -limited email addresses service, this one has a FireFox extension.
Click link to go to web site to protect your real email address.
5. Switch to safer browsing with FireFoxIt has many features either integral to or can be freely added to the browser to make browsing a safer experience. US CERT, part of the Department of Homeland Security continues to recommend that users of Internet Explorer “use a different web browser”. They can’t say it but we all know what they want to say and that’s use Firefox
Click link to go to web site or if you must use Internet Explorer, download and use GuidescopeFree for personal use, Guidescope block ads by selecting them from a graphical list.
Many ad companies record where you surf whenever you view one of their ads. Even pages without ads can track your surfing by including "Web bugs" (tiny, invisible graphics). By blocking ads and Web bugs, Guidescope blocks the recording and help protect your privacy from would-be spammers.
Click link to go to web site
6. Use a secure email program such as the 2048 bit encryption HushmailThere is a free service with 128 MB storage and premium service and a business service with 256 MB storage and unlimited pseudonyms
Click link to find out more.
How do you fight back?
EITHER
download and learn to use SamSpadeThis free program is generally considered to set the standards by which all others are judged. It is not easy to learn to use, but once learned you can, with patient detective work, trace even faked email back to their originators. Then you can contact the spammer's ISP, hosting service etc.
Click link to download and do all the leg work yourself
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join BlueSecurityAlso free, BlueSecurity, is an online community service which does all the work for you. You just forward all your spam email to BlueSecurity and they do the rest with more power and impact than you can achieve alone.
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BlueSecurity facility has recently been added to MailWasher. You can now forward spam directly from MailWasher to BlueSecurity!
you can Click link to go to web site and just forward all spam to them and they will do the rest.
