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Prevent your email address from becoming a target to spammers
Spam email is unsolicited email, usually with a commercial focus. Other names for Spam include "Unsolicited Commercial Email" (UCE) or perhaps more accurately, "Unsolicited Bulk Email" (UBE). Spammers will send thousands, and in some cases millions, of emails to try to lure people into buying their products, clicking on "affiliate links".
Most people who have an email address for any significant amount of time receive “spam email”, and the longer you maintain a particular email address the more spam you are likely to receive. Spammers create lists of email addresses by collecting them from websites, buying them from other businesses, and even by guessing possible names on popular email hosts such as Yahoo! mail and Hotmail. It is possible to buy large email lists for relatively small amounts of money. Once you start receiving spam from a particular email address, it becomes effectively impossible to remove your name from the lists.
* Do not post your e-mail address in a straight form on the Internet. If you need to post your e-mail address, post it in a disguised form.
* Never respond to spam. If you reply, even to request removing your e-mail address from the mailing list, you are confirming that your e-mail address is valid and the spam has been successfully delivered to your inbox, not filtered by a spam filter, that you opened the message, read the contents, and responded to the spammer. Lists of confirmed e-mail addresses are more valuable to spammers than unconfirmed lists, and they are frequently bought and sold by spammers. More »
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What is Pornware?
According to viruslist.com, Pornware denotes programs which are involved in causing pornographic content to be displayed to the user.
The Pornware class currently includes Porn-Downloader, Porn-Dialer or Porn Tool programs. The Dialers connect to pornographic phone services. Downloader programs will download pornographic material to the workstation. Porn-Tool covers all types of utilities which are connected with searching for and displaying pornographic material.
Pornware programs may be installed by a user deliberately in order to search for and access pornographic material. In such cases, the programs are not viewed as being malicious.
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pornware - what is pornware -Alert-”Your Computer Is Infected”
Its A Fake Message from Rogue Programs, These “threats” are nonexistent and are designed to persuade computer users to click on the ad, which promises to provide software to resolve the risks. The software, known as rogue antivirus programs or rogue anti-spyware, is fraudulent. Many people opt to purchase this software because the ads look authentic. It is an understandable reaction to want to protect your computer. However, opting to purchase rogue antivirus programs will result in a loss of money and may cause some issues with your system’s performance. There are many variations of the fake message alert and a host of rogue programs that distribute them. Some common ones include Antivirus 2007, 2008 and 2009, XP Antivirus, Antivirus System Pro, Win32/InternetAntivirus, Home Antivirus 2009, Spyware Detect, and WinPC Defender, among others. Remember, If you know which programs you have installed to protect you against threats, then you will be able to distinguish real from fraudulent warnings.
Packet Filtering Firewall
One type of firewall is the packet filtering firewall. In a packet filtering firewall, the firewall examines five characteristics of a packet:
- Source IP address
- Source port
- Destination IP address
- Destination port
- IP protocol (TCP or UDP) More »
Tips-How to Unblock Websites
If you search the web from your school or public library or company’s office, you have probably already realized that many of the most popular or slightly off color web sites have been blocked. Web sites that have been blocked can include facebook.com, bebo, Myspace.com, Youtube.com, your favorite site/forum. and even many entertainment/gossip sites that offer blue humor or offensive comments. If you want to take back your web and once again regain full access to the internet, you will have to unblock web sites.
Unblocking a web site can be accomplished whether you are at the office, at a school computer or using a public computer at some libraries or cyber cafes. In order to unblock a web site you have to some way circumvent or disable the web site blocking software, the web browser or the firewall that is being used to block a web site. There are a few strategies to accomplish this task:
Do you think Your Anti Virus Effective?
Every one who uses the computer will definitely know about the VIRUS. A VIRUS is a malicious program which will run in the background and may cause destruction to your system. Some of the viruses are very risks and may even wipe of your hard disk completely and corrupt your operating system. It is always mandatory to have a good anti virus package and scan your system regularly to quarantine or remove the threats. A virus stands for Vital Information Resource Under Siege. There are lot of ways the Virus can spread such as emails, external devices like floppies, compact discs, flash devices etc and so it is important to scan all incoming material before you copy it on to your system.
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