Junk mail is always a pain to deal with. Some junk mail may be stuff you actually sign up for and lost interest in. Spam, however, is stuff that you never signed up for and is often sent to you after some bot saw your email address on some site. Nobody like spam. The guy [...]
Email Extractor Software Droid Email Seeker
How to spammers fill their databases with email addresses? They usually buy them in bulk from companies that acquire them by other means. Other means can mean running search bots that crawl websites on the Internet to find new email addresses but also illegal methods like hacking into databases to retrieve all email addresses. You [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jun 20th, 2009
- Comments: 3
Use Bogofilter for better junk detection in Evolution
So you’re using the Linux operating system and you’re not concerned with viruses. But you still get SPAM – and plenty of it. With the Evolution groupware suite you have, by default, Spamassassin as your Junk filtering tool. For some this is enough. For others, howerver, it doesn’t cut it. For those that need more [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: May 1st, 2009
- Comments: 1
Use Spamassassin for better SPAM detection
The Linux operating system is typically immune to viruses attached to email. But it is not immune to SPAM. Left unfiltered your inbox would quickly fill up with more SPAM than you care to delete. What is worse is owning a mail server and not protecting your users from a barrage of SPAM.
By employing Spamassassin [...]
Tinymail Email Protection
Do not publish your email on the Internet. That’s is one of the first lessons to learn when you start using the Internet. Once your email has been cached by a search engine it will sooner or later be discovered by bots that crawl the Internet for this valuable information.
All kinds of protection have been [...]
Gmail Has a Privacy Problem
You might have already read it elsewhere that it is possible to reveal the real name of any Gmail user by sharing a calendar in Google Calendar with him. Let me explain how this is done. Google Calendar can be loaded in the header area of Gmail after logging in. A click on settings will [...]
What’s wrong with those Rapidshare Captchas ?
Rapidshare have implemented a new captcha system a while ago that was most likely be added to fight all the automatic downloaders that were able to fill out the captcha for the user to automate the download process. The new captcha however turns out to be harder to beat. Not only for computer scripts though [...]
