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Spammers And Spam Hunters

Sometimes I don’t know which people are the worst. Those that spam or those that say they are going after spammers.

I deleted 145 spam posts on one of my blogs today. Fortunately I have moderate comments turned on so they never actually get posted. That makes the spammers bad, but thats the worst inconvenience spammers have caused me.

However those that supposedly are our Spam saviors. Those that say they are fighting spam have caused me more problems than the spammers themselves.

Sorbs.net lists your domain name as a spam domain name if you happen to be hosted on or near the same IP address as the spammers. Therefore you are guilty by association.

To get your domain name removed off of sorbs.net’s list, you have to give them money. Sounds a lot like extortion since they manually add you to the list then ask you for money to be removed. Read the rest of this entry »

Simple Steps to Defeating SPAM

GMail SPAM filter is fighting a losing battle. I am doing some ANTI-SPAM testing. For the past 4 months I have been very public with my Gmail email address, signing up for newsletters, using it on forms, and sharing it publicly on forums, blogs, and discussion boards. I expected to get SPAMMED to death, that’s exactly what’s beginning to happen. Everyday, I receive about 20 junk emails. I know that is small, but for someone who is use to never seeing SPAM in their inbox, it’s a quite bit.

I did this sort of testing, once before with Yahoo! Mail, and I took the time to get rid of all my SPAM (from coming into the inbox). I’ll share my secret.

1. First, you should have 3 email addresses; (@.hotmail, @.yahoo, @.gmail). These 3 email addresses should represent your public (personal) email address, your business email address, and your spam catcher). Remember the less you publicly use your email address, the less SPAM you’ll have.

2. If you wish to use your public or business email address, each site you travel to, (which you plan or must share your email address) you should check the site Privacy Policy. You don’t have to study Read the rest of this entry »

Seven tips for securing your organizations network from spam and email viruses

Providing security against email related threats has become a burden for most IT professionals in 2006. According to a recent study by Postini, spam and email viruses now make up to 80% of all emails sent out as compared to 50% in 2000. As a result, IT professionals now face a tougher challenge in providing network security for this amount of spam. IT professionals also have the disadvantage of defending against new forms of email threats such as spam zombies, directory harvest attacks, mass mailing trojans, as well as the latest email virus.

In this article, I have listed the seven most effective spam fighting tips for organizations with in-house mail servers. These seven tips are proven techniques I have used for my customers, partners and associates who wish to tighten their perimeter (network) security.

1. Firewall:
A firewall is your first line of defense against hackers, crackers, and spammers. Without a firewall, Read the rest of this entry »

Save Time, Money and Hassle – Stop Spam

Spam can be an absolute nightmare, and one that seems to spiral out of control in some of my email accounts. If i’ve been away for a few days and haven’t had a chance to check my emails, I dread having to open up my email client when I get back online in anticipation of hundreds or thousands of spam emails.

Although I simply delete these emails, for some, they seem legitimate messages that can often cause the recipient to become the subject of a fraudulent activity. An example of this that many people may have experienced are the emails that claim that you have won the lottery in some country that you probably haven’t even visited, or emails that ask for you to help claim a substantial amount of money for someone who claims to be entitled to millions of dollars from a lost relative. These types of emails are laughable but for a lesser experienced internet user, they pose a great threat.

This was when I decided to use a spam blocker to prevent the hassle and time wasted deleting spam emails. Read the rest of this entry »

Real Businesses Send Spam, Too!

Unsolicited Commercial Email or Spam has grown at epidemic proportions. It is rapidly becoming the number one problem that Information Technology departments deal with on a day-to-day basis, surpassing computer viruses. The volume and percentage of unwanted email received in business and personal email inboxes is starting to overwhelm and drown out legitimate email.

Although the vast majority of this bulk email is being perpetrated by individual spammers and a few large bulk mailers pushing pornography, gambling, get rich schemes, medicinal cures and bootleg software, real businesses have been caught in the web also by committing several errors. The three ways a legitimate business falls into the Spam mode are: 1. Legal non-Compliance, 2. Violating Trust, and 3. Lack of Value.

Legal non-Compliance

Through the end of 2003 it was very difficult to comply with Spam laws as twenty six states had passed their own laws dealing either directly with the process of sending unsolicited commercial email or the format requirements of bulk email. Read the rest of this entry »

Problems With Spam? Learn How To Treat It.

The first step in your antispam campaign may well be to understand spam and how it works.

Spam is usually defined as unsolicited e-mail that is delivered in bulk. It has become so prevalent because it’s cheap, reaches the greatest number of folks in the least amount of time, and because it’s unregulated. In the U.S. alone more than 50 million citizens are online, with their own Internet accounts.

For spammers this is an ideal situation. Even were it not to work, there’s virtually no punishment other than subsequent inability to spam until a way is found around it. And ways are constantly found around just about everything we do in our antispam campaign. That’s not to say you shouldn’t try though.

Here are some of the things you can do:

First, don’t respond – not even to say, “Hey you not nice person, get off my computer.” First, it’s a Read the rest of this entry »

Who Can Benefit from Affiliate Tracking Software

When it comes to affiliate programs and affiliate tracking software, a large amount of focus is placed on business owners. This is because business owners are the ones who decide to start an affiliate program and use an affiliate tracking service. While business owners may be able to benefit the most from affiliate programs and affiliate tracking software, they are not the only ones who can. In fact, affiliate programs and tracking software not only benefit business owners, but affiliates as well.

An affiliate is a term that is used to describe webmasters, web publishers, and website owners. When they enter into an affiliate program, they are often referred to as an affiliate. The job of an affiliate, when it comes to affiliate programs, is to help increase the revenue of one of their partner sites. This is done by placing advertisements, such as banners or links, on their website. Each time those advertisements are used to generate a sale; the affiliate will be compensated for their work. This compensation is often a percentage of each earned sale.

An affiliate will benefit from participating in an affiliate program because they have the ability to earn money. In fact, that is how many webmasters, web publishers, and website owners make most Read the rest of this entry »

The Cost of Affiliate Tracking Software

If you are a business owner, especially one that plans on using an affiliate program to generate sales for your business, there are a number of important factors that you should examine. Those factors should include the cost of starting an affiliate program, if you havent already. In most cases, an affiliate program will end up paying for itself, due to the increase in sales that it creates; however, many business owners are still interested in learning where their money will be going.

One of the first things that you should examine includes the amount of money you plan on paying to your affiliates. Affiliates are the individuals or businesses that you partner with. Most of these individuals and companies have their own websites, which will be used to promote the services or products you are selling. To properly award an outstanding affiliate, one that helps to increase your sales, you will want to financially compensate them. This compensation can either be a flat rate fee or a commission percentage, the decision is yours to make.

To properly compensate a well performing affiliate, you must be able to determine if and when they helped you generate a sale. This is done with the use of affiliate tracking software. Affiliate tracking Read the rest of this entry »

The Benefits of Purchasing Highly Recommend Affiliate Tracking Software

If are an online business owner, it is likely that you have given an affiliate program some thought. Affiliate programs, if they are properly run, can help to increase the number of sales your business makes. When it comes to starting an affiliate program, there is one thing that many business owners do not think about. That is affiliate tracking software.

Affiliate tracking software is important and vital to the successful operation of an affiliate program. Affiliate tracking software will enable you, the business owner, to know when one of your affiliates helped to generate a sale. In addition to knowing when that sale was generated, the proper tracking software will also enable you to know who helped to generate each sale. This is important, especially when it comes to rewarding your affiliates for their hard work. Since this software is so important, you will want to obtain it as soon as you decide to start your own affiliate program.

When it comes to finding affiliate tracking software, you will find that you literally have an unlimited number of options. There are a large number of individuals and companies that have Read the rest of this entry »

The Benefits of Joining an Affiliate Program

Each day, a fairly large number of webmasters make the decision to join an affiliate program. Affiliate programs are a great way to make money, often without having to do any work. Despite being an easy and profitable business opportunity, there are many webmasters who are unsure as to whether or not they should join an affiliate program. If you are one of those individuals, you are encouraged to examine the benefits of joining a program. After this examination has been completed, you may be surprised with what you learned.

Affiliate programs that programs that are run by a number of different business. Most of those businesses either sell a product or a service. Since the goal of any business, especially those selling something, is to make money, many businesses use unique marketing methods. One of those methods is an affiliate program. Affiliate programs allow webmasters to connect with these webmasters. A webmaster, once they are approved for the program, will be required to place banners or links to their advertisers website. In the event that those links or banners generate a sale, the webmaster is able to pocket a portion of that sale. Read the rest of this entry »