Tips for reducing the amount of spam you receive at your business email address.

The only sure way to avoid receiving spam is to make sure your email address is never published or listed anywhere on the Internet. Not a realistic choice for most of us who have any kind of online presence and just about impossible if you do business online.

There are steps you can take to minimize your exposure and keep your inbox relatively spam free.

The number one most effective technique you can use to keep spam email out of your business inbox is to keep your email address off of your website. However, here at Spam Stopping, we believe that to succeed in business online you must promote a feeling of trust and to do that, you must provide a variety of ways for your customer to contact you, including via email.

Here are several methods you can use to provide email access to your customers while keeping your email address off of the spam email lists. Read the rest of this entry »

Tips for reducing or eliminating spam to your personal email address

1 – Keep one email address for very personal use only. This is the email address that only your family and closest friends will know. Don’t use it for any other purpose.

2 – Use “throw away” email addresses for all your online activities. That way if any one email address becomes overwhelmed with spam you can just delete the address. Read the rest of this entry »

Has Your Email Address Been Spoofed?

One of the most disheartening and most frustrating spam problems to deal with is spoofing. When a spammer puts someone else’s email address in the “reply-to” field of their spam messages, all bounced message notifications and replies to the original message will be sent to the innocent victim. Using a false or fake email header to send messages is called spoofing.

The way you find out your email address has been spoofed is when you start receiving bounced message notifications for email you didn’t send. And it’s a horrible feeling when it happens!

While there’s really nothing you can do to stop it once it happens, there are some things you can do to try and prevent it from happening in the first place. But before we get into that let me offer some words of encouragement for current victims of spoofing who are receiving countless numbers of bounced message notifications. In my experience, a spoofing attack is an isolated incident, not an endless nightmare. Spammers generally use your email address for one mass mailing and then move on to another unfortunate victim.

Read on to find out if you’ve been spoofed and learn how to prevent future attacks. Read the rest of this entry »

Eliminate Blog Spam

It was inevitable… the spammers are overwhelming many blog owners with comment and trackback spam. Some dread opening their blogs because they’re finding hundreds of spam entries, many of them quite distasteful.

Fear not! There is help… very effective help. Read the rest of this entry »

Protect Your Website Against Hacking

The internet is filled with more and more marketers, many of whom are creating their own websites to market products. While having your own website will help you attract potential customers, it will also attract hackers who can wreak havoc on your site if you are not well protected.

Here are some things you can do to help protect your websites.
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How to Stop WordPress Spam

If you aren’t using plugins to protect your WordPress blog from spam, you must very frustrated with blog spam right now. While doing a little blog maintenance recently I was reminded that automated blog spamming makes it possible for spammers to constantly attack.

In order to update one of my spam stopping plugins, I deactivated it. Of course, right at that moment my son needed a ride so I left my desk for about 20 minutes. In that short amount of time, four spam comments were posted and nearly another dozen spam comments and spam trackbacks were awaiting moderation. At that pace it would be impossible to maintain a blog without constant attention to all the spam.

How to keep a blog spam free Read the rest of this entry »

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IP Addresses – Trading Privacy for Crime Prevention

If you’ve been on the internet for any period of time you’ve likely hear the term IP address.  IP address stands for Internet Protocol address. The Ip address is a number that is unique to each computer or system that is connecting to the world wide web. The sole purpose of having such a specific address is for tracking each individual internet connection. It identified the user in much the same way a telephone number or street address would in the offline world. A network is used in which electronic devices can communicate with each other. An IP Addresses will be configured like this: 127.72.16.137.

Thanks to IP addresses, your computer can be easily identified in particular situations. For example, most Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have a database in which they store each of their client’s IP addresses.

The IP Address and Privacy Read the rest of this entry »

Malware Protection

As we rely more and more on the internet, between personal communications and businesses, we need to protect our computers. There are all sorts of hazards out there that can cause problems as simple as slowing your machine down to identity theft. Statistics show that about 80% of all the people on the internet report problems with their computers running slow, even with very little programs installed and a T1 connection. It is important to be aware of these threats and know how to prevent and eliminate them.

The most likely cause of loss of computer performance is called malware (spyware, adware, key-loggers, or drive-by downloader, etc.) that enter your system by various means, slowing things down to a crawl. This malicious software can gather your surfing information and send it to places you don’t want sent or track your personal information for future use. Unfortunately, these malicious software programs are everywhere on the internet, including some “friendly” websites such as websites run by the government and the large, reputable companies.

As the web technology advances, viruses and spyware get smarter and harder to detect and kill, too. In order to protect your computer from malware you need to understand what they are and how they work.

Basically, there are three types of malware presented in this article because they are the most common problems we encounter:

1. Viruses
2. Spyware
3. Adware

Let’s take a look at viruses first. Read the rest of this entry »

Interview with Will Bontrager – Protect Your Website and Email

Many of the tips and tools recommended here at SpamStopping.com come from Willmaster.com. Recently I had the privilege of interviewing the master CGI programmer and owner of the company, Will Bontrager. He provided valuable tips on keeping your website secure and your inbox spam-free.

You don’t want to miss it! Read the complete interview here.