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How do I... Avoid e-mail spam using Outlook tools?

As more and more spam finds your Inbox, it's harder to find legitimate mail. Regrettably, at least from the recipients' point of view, it looks like spam is here to stay. You can't keep spammers from sending you e-mail, but you can make sure you don't ever see it. Susan...

Tags: E-mail Spam, Tool, Susan Harkins, E-mail, Microsoft Outlook, Spam, Cyberthreats, Productivity, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Security, Spam And Phishing, Enterprise Software

Download resources 2008-04-22

AntiSpam Sniper Pro (exe)

Spam refers to the use of electronic mail medium to send unsolicited messages. E-mail spam is a subset of spam that involves sending nearly identical messages to numerous recipients by e-mail. Spam wastes time, clogs mail servers, and is very difficult to get rid of. AntiSpam Sniper Pro is a...

Tags: Message, Anti-spam, E-mail Spam, AntiSpam Sniper Pro, E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing

Software downloads 2007-12-19

N.J. man gets two years jail for AOL spam scam

N.J. man gets two years jail for AOL spam scamNot harsh enoughShould be a longer sentence.Not enough timehe should have been sentenced to 20 years. Maybe this will stop a little bit of the spam we receive dailyRE: N.J. man gets two years jail for AOL spam scamthats great he...

Tags: Cyberthreats, e-mail spam, spam, America Online Inc., spammer, spam scam, intermediate system

Discussion threads 2007-11-05

Control all the spam in your organization with GFI's Mail Essential application

As an administrator, managing the spam that comes into your organization takes some sophisticated software and a lot of hard work. One of the more effective applications for managing an Exchange Server is Mail Essentials from GFI. Spam is four-letter word to most network or e-mail administrators....

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Anti-spam, E-mail Spam, Reality, Spam, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications

Download resources 2005-10-04

Additional Resources

My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services

Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...

Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Is Google working on the synchronization problem?

ReadWriteWeb has a post up about the fact that Zoho has added offline access to Zoho Mail using Gears. Zoho continues to do a really good job of innovating when it comes to Ajax-based RIAs. They were very early to the game in creating offline support for Zoho Docs before...

Tags: Google Inc., Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., ReadWriteWeb, Zoho Mail, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Is OpenOffice good enough?

Yes. OK, obviously there's more to this story than my tongue-in-cheek answer. This came up after one of our supercool, power user secretaries (who is an Office 2003/2007 wiz) ran a training session for the other secretaries in the district. The other secretaries are largely...

Tags: Secretary, Training, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-10

News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...

Tags: Touch Screen, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, IBM Corp., E-mail, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, WiMAX, Monitors & Displays, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Components, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding

The Associated Press takes a hard look at Sarah Palin's spotty – perhaps, hypocritical – record on open government and online transparency. She claims to be a reformer who will bring to Washington the government openness she says she established in Alaska. But the AP's review of her...

Tags: Associated Press, Alaska, Sarah Palin, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?RE: Palin e-mail hacker indictedIf someone opened your U.S. mail box and took your mail he or she would be prosecuted and possibly jailed . . . this is no different.RE: Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice...

Tags: Social Security, Palin, Palin e-mail hacker, e-mail hacker, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?

Justice is being served against the kid who allegedly hacked into Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, right? David Kernell, the 20-year-old son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell and a student at the University of Tennessee, was indicted on a charge of accessing...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Hacker, Computer, Kid, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Mail Goggles: an idea that goes well beyond drunk emails

Mail Goggles: an idea that goes well beyond drunk emailsA pain if done wrongI send as many as 100 emails a day. Most have no legal ramifications as they are between colleges working on a project at the detail level or simple answers of facts. Of the 100 there...

Tags: Mail Goggles, well beyond, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Google tries to stop you from sending mail you will regret

Google tries to stop you from sending mail you will regretBut are they liable?Is Google liable for sending the mail if I ask them not to? If Google can tell that I am not "right" at a given point in time, what's to stop them from judging me not right...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Symantec Goes Into The Cloud With Email Filtering

Symantec today announced its acquisition of MessageLabs, a 520-person UK-based email filtering and security vendor. Given the cost and hassles that information & knowledge management professionls IKM Pros have keeping email spam down to a dull roar and keeping viruses outside the firewall, this is a great move for Symantec....

Tags: Symantec Corp., MessageLabs Ltd., E-mail, Online Communications, Ted Schadler

Blog posts 2008-10-08

$236m judgment against spammer couple

$236m judgment against spammer coupleSadly, it's pointlessSadly, in reality such a judgment is pointless.Let them pay it in jail time$236m is a fair bill to run up. I say let them paying it back in jail time.Let's even be generous and say 1 day in jail will reduce the bill...

Tags: Spam, Email Ads, e-mail, spammer, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Mail Goggles: an idea that goes well beyond drunk emails

There's a new GMail Labs app: Mail Goggles, by GMail engineer Jon Perlow: When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check...

Tags: Google Gmail, Jon, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Internet, Online Communications, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Is the BlackBerry Storm touchscreen system better than the iPhone?

Is the BlackBerry Storm touchscreen system better than the iPhone?Why Not Vibrate?While I prefer some feedback to none at all, actually depressing a glass screen does seem like its headed for problems down the road, at least with heavy users. Why not a "vibrate" feedback similar to what my...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Voice Activation, BlackBerry Storm touchscreen system, Apple iPhone, touchscreen system, BlackBerry Storm, RIM BlackBerry, touch screen

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

$236m judgment against spammer couple

How much is spam worth? In the case of a couple who sent millions of spams to a small ISP, $236 million. That's the judgment a federal judge in Iowa levied against the husband-and-wife spamming team of Henry Perez and Suzanne Bartok, IDG reports. Over four months in 2003,...

Tags: Judgment, Spammer, CIS Internet Services, Spam, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo email

Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo emailI bet he is praing for an Obama winin November, as that way he has a great change at receiving a pardon from him.If McCain wins, well five years in Guantanamo is not really [i]all[/i] that bad... ;)RE: Kernell indicted in break-in to...

Tags: Palin, Yahoo Email, Kernell, e-mail, break-in, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo email

The Department of Justice has indicted David C. Kernell, the 20-year-old son of a Democratic Tennessee state representative, for "intentionally accessing without authorization" Gov. Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, the Justice Department announced today. Kernell turned himself in for arrest and will be arraigned today. According to the...

Tags: Password, e-Mail Account, Yahoo! Inc., Governor, Family Member, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-08