In the context of this article, "recover" means "make usable again". It’s probably true that there’s more than a few of you out there who have an email address that you’d like to use again but can’t because it’s completely overrun with spam. Yes, it is possible to recover an email address ruined by spam. The only...

If you prefer to use an email client but your mail server’s spam filters aren’t doing a good job, you can use Gmail as a go-between for better spam filtration. Step 1. Get a Gmail account. Go to http://mail.google.com/mail/signup and sign up your free Gmail account. Step 2. Configure Gmail to download your existing POP3 email. Instructions on how to...

An interesting article I read today titled ‘Millions continue to click on spam‘ provides some good insight into why we continue to get so much spam. This article is well worth the brief read, but here are some points of interest: Even though over 80% of email users are aware of the existence of bots, tens of millions respond to spam in ways that...

Knowing how to check the source, as in the raw "code," of an email is important because there will be times when you need to do it. Why? To check authenticity of an email. Spam and phishing emails are getting more tricky to identify all the time, and your best weapon against this is knowing how to check the source of an email. Unfortunately it is the...

I use Skype quite a bit. I use it as my work at home phone to call and receive calls using a standard phone number and I use it to let my parents see their grandbaby. So I recently upgraded to the latest release of version 4 and was almost immediately bombarded with “add me to your contact list” spam. This is especially annoying because the contacts...

Regardless of how careful you are with your email address, you will eventually get spammed. Have you ever wondered how your address gets on spam lists, then this article titled ‘Catching Spammers in the Act‘ is worth a read. Basically the findings were consistent with what you would expect. If your email address is posted on a popular site (or any...

A very, very old email tip to prevent nasty code executions from spam on email clients was to simply disable the preview pane altogether. But you have to remember back then that email clients were decidedly "dumb". Today they’re much smarter. For example, you can disable/enable the preview pane at whim in Mozilla Thunderbird just by pressing F8....

A universal truth about the internet is that if there’s anything, and I mean anything, that gains popularity as a communications medium, it will be spammed mercilessly. Such is the case with Twitter. Currently it’s being bombarded with spam. And it’s set to get worse. I have to admit that I’ve been drawing away from the service for that...

Do I have to say it? Spam. Or at least that’s what Symantec says, so you can take that for what it’s worth. Spam is one of those things that’s constantly changing to bust the roadblocks we put up against it. However we as email users are smarter now and we also have better tools to fight the junk. What’s the best way to filter spam...

Pretty much all email clients have some sort of new mail notification. Be it a sound, pop-up, tray icon or whatever, the purpose of it is to grab your attention. While this is certainly convenient, it also can be quite distracting… especially if you have a lot of spam getting through. Before we swapped our email to run through Postini, I would get roughly...

If you have your own domain email account (i.e. me@mydomain.com, me@mycompany.com) and are continually getting pummeled with spam despite your best efforts, a service you really need to look at is Postini. Postini is a Google owned service which provides hosted spam protection for ridiculously low pricing (at the time of this writing $12 per email per year)....

Everyone hates unsolicited phone calls. Simply put, they are to the telephone as spam is to email. With upfront appologies to any readers who may be telemarketers, they are extremely annoying and a complete waste of time and besides that, who actually buys anything from an unsolicited call? To combat the never ending barage of calls, we now have the National Do...

The LA Times reported that because of a small server company in California (McColo) that has been shut off, the amount of spam worldwide has dropped two-thirds. Yes, it’s incredible to think that around 66% of spam you most likely see in your inbox or Spam/Junk folder came from there. Symantec stated however that spam will jump right back up to its...

Spam control is a necessity if you use e-mail which the vast majority of us do. And although PCMech has covered spam control with several articles on the subject, the methods change from year to year – so consider this an update for the 2008-2009 era of e-mail. Client Side With e-mail clients you have free and paid options but I concentrate on the freebies...

What you see here’s not a test; I’m a’warning you – beware! If you reply to spam and don’t give a damn; you’ll get stung, and they don’t care. They sent out spam; damn, to the people on the Internet; jammin’ up the servers; To the spam spam boogie say up jump the boogie, to the rhythmic unsolicited beat. I said...

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If you have ever wondered what would happen if you were to actually respond to the myriad number of spam messages you probably receive, then check out the article “Diary of a deliberately spammed housewife” on Network World. The article’s premise is a an interesting one: what happens if you actually respond to every spam message you receive?...

We all get spam in our email. Probably lot of it. We get the guys trying to get our help transferring millions of dollars out of his country. We get the Viagra ads. We get the mortgage deals. And, yes, we get Britney Spears nude pics. Of course, they are fake. They are designed to lure you into clicking the link. Ever wondered what happens when you click the...

Blogoscoped featured a video (see below) showing what Matt Cutts thinks about spam. This is VERY insightful information for anyone who runs a web site, be it a blog, regular web site, business or what-have-you. [Source:...

Recently, both myself and a lot of users at work here have received a barrage of “undeliverable” email messages. I’m not talking about a few here, but hundreds a week. Naturally, the first thing I thought is our mail server has been compromised. Long story short, that was not the case. Next, I thought it was our client machines which have been...