Identity theft is big business and, like it or not, the likelihood that you will become a victim is increasing. As the Internet and its popularity have grown, the number of unscrupulous operators out there has grown as well. There are so many scams and attack methods out there it is difficult to keep up […]

There are hundreds of thousands of people who are trying to make an honest living on the Internet these days. The Internet is a great opportunity for starting your own business. There is not a lot of start-up cost, you can reach the whole world from a small corner of your own […]

RSS is short for Really Simple Syndication. It is part of the
XML family that is used for syndicating information. Put simply
RSS allows one web site to share information with another web
site.
As a web site publisher, RSS offers a way for them to publish
their information on many web sites, which in turns increases
their reach on the […]

Technicians at ActivSoftware recently analyzed over two hundred thousand tokens, also referred to as words, in a bayesian spam filter on one of their busier local email servers. They analyzed dozens of items within the data. The most compelling was the spam to ham ratios. Ham is defined as legitimate email sent by legitimate email […]

Spam can bring down your website faster than a speeding bullet, but what is spam? Originally, spam referred to unwanted emails. We all hate the tons of email we receive day after day trying to get us to buy that or click this. I can’t go a day without someone trying to steal my personal […]

Michigan - May 20, 2005 - MicroWorld Technologies, Inc. the
leading solutions provider in the area of Anti-virus and Content
security, has announced the launch of its new version of
MailScan Ver. 4.5, the antivirus and content security software
for mail servers.
The new version of MailScan provides additional security
features to allow users to monitor the TCP connections on their
systems, […]

The opportunity to quickly and easily implement and harness the power of RSS is quite real and new programs become available every week that allow non-technical marketers and webmasters to capitalize on the effective use of RSS.
Jim Edwards spoke of this trend in the recent “For a Greater Cause” teleseminar. Media-rich blogs and content […]

RSS is a technology whose time has come. Five trends driving the demand for RSS include:
1. Spam controls
As users have demanded better spam controls, ezines have lost favor. Many ezines are now scooped up by aggressive antispam measures before hitting users’ inboxes. RSS is already moving in to take the place of ezines. RSS is […]

“Not sure how to say this — but just for fun I clicked on a credit card application, and then cancelled IMMEDIATELY! Well, two months later my count as of this day: 2948 spams for credit cards, loans, easy credit, etc. About 370 spams a week, or about 53 A DAY! While I know money […]

Let me ask a couple of questions:

If (potential) customers sends an e-mail to your company, do they want to receive an answer?

If you, in return, e-mail your customer, do you expect that your e-mail is delivered to the customer?

Well, in my case, I answered “YES” on both questions. After all, the customer asks for an […]