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05/10/2007 00:00

Increased Spam

A few of you might have noticed a huge increase in spam in the last 4 days. I know I have!!! We do have Spam Assassin on the job. However this kind of attack is hard to counter.

What you can do:

1) protect your email address, use it only for correspondent with know recipients.
2) Open a Free Yahoo Or Hotmail account and use this email for any kind of sign ups, meaning anywhere a website ask for your email address. Then just check it once in a while and empty the astonishing amount of spam it will quickly create.
3) If you forward emails make sure you strip out all the previous email address, sometimes I get emails forward to me with 100's of previous emails, and bonus day for spammers!
4) Use a mail filter, or rule, this is in your email program and will put anything marked as spam into the trash.
5) If your spam is really bad, I can put a very strong Spam trapper at server level, this will require everyone who emails you to go through an approval process. We can pre seed the approved emails and subjects, before hand. But you will have to log into the trapper and empty regularly.
6) Last case scenario  is change email addresses, if you feel it is too much with and your email address is beyond repair, we can set you up with a new email address, but I will recommend the use of the free account for any sign ups!

Remember in this day and age your email is a valuable commodity, your phone number is now used less and less for those sales calls, and your email is the prize. Keep it away from spammers lists!

Corisa

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