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- Spam
- E-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" UCE, "unsolicited bulk e-mail" UBE, "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun...
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- AntispamSniper For Outlook 3.2.2.1 (Windows)
- AntispamSniper for Outlook provides a professional antispam and anti-phishing protection for your mailbox. The plug-in filters POP3, IMAP, and Exchange accounts. The unique combination of several methods for automatic e-mail classification shows excellent filtering quality for all kinds of spam, including graphical spam with random text. The plug-in has a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Plug-in, GoodVein, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Microsoft Outlook, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Microsoft Office, Security, Spam And Phishing, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2009-11-20
- AntiSpam Sniper Pro 3.3 (Windows)
- Keep your e-mail clean and safe! E-mail has become an indispensable system of communication for the average man not to mention its importance in the business area. However, where there's a light there's also a switch - the high percentage of spam over the last years has sometimes made e-mail...
- Tags: Anti-spam, Microsoft Windows, Best Security Tips, AntiSpam Sniper Pro, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- Contact Form Generator 1.7 (Windows)
- Create HTML forms for your website. Generate them with an online wizard. Contact forms are very useful to receive message from your visitors. Build polls, questionnaires, and other types of web forms. No programming skills are required, just copy and paste the HTML form code on a page. You can...
- Tags: HTML, Anti-spam, Microsoft Windows, Programming, Adolix, Spam, Development Tools, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- Beware: Spam on Facebook and Twitter has reached epidemic
- another spammer paradise...tell me something I don't know.Duh reallyDuh really,you got payed to tell us were getting spammed?? Well actually you get spammed i don't subscribe to twitter or face book. I just simply email friends and family and guess what,i don't get spammed doing it that way,who woulda known!How...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Twitter Inc., social site, moral code, spam, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Cactus Spam Filter 3.00 (Windows)
- Cactus Spam Filter is a spam blocker. It protects your inbox by learning to detect spam as it's being used. After a short while it has adapted to your personal mailbox and blocks out most of the junk e-mail. This spam stopper integrates seamlessly with all e-mail clients that use...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Mozilla Corp., Codeode, Cactus Spam Filter, Microsoft Outlook, E-mail, Groupware, E-mail Clients, Spam, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Security, Spam And Phishing
- Software downloads 2009-11-12
- AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0.704 (Windows)
- AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is an anti-virus protection tool available free of charge to home users. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability. The new 9.0 edition is faster, safer and easier to use. AVG Anti-Virus Free...
- Tags: Antivirus, AVG Anti-Virus, Microsoft Windows, AVG Technologies USA, AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition, Virus Database Update, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam, Spam And Phishing
- Software downloads 2009-11-11
- AbusePipe 2.3.1 (Windows)
- AbusePipe identifies who is sending spam based on the information in emailed complaints.AbusePipe analyses abuse complaint emails (typically sent by irate users to abuse@yourISP.com) and determines which of your customers is sending spam also known as unsolicited commercial email or UCE. It automatically generates reports showing which customers have violated...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, DataMystic, AbusePipe, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- JunkIt 0.2b (Mac)
- If you have used the Junk mail filter in Mail.app on the mac, you know that even with the best training, you can still be left with hundreds of unwanted emails. What's worse? Spam-filtering programs often make it possible to do *so* much that the average user becomes overwhelmed with...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Todd, JunkIt, E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- Scams surfacing on Twitter, Facebook
- Twitter users warned about direct messages that said: "I make money online with google. i learned how here [link]." Facebook users were getting a bogus link from a friend. Twitter and Facebook users were getting hit with scams on Monday. Twitter users warned about direct messages...
- Tags: Facebook, Twitter Inc., Phishing, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Twitter, malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Elinor Mills CNET News
- News items 2009-11-02
- AntispamSniper for Outlook Express 3.2.2.1 (Windows)
- AntispamSniper for Outlook Express provides a professional antispam and anti-phishing protection for your mailbox. The unique combination of several methods for automatic email classification shows excellent filtering quality for all kinds of spam, including graphical spam with random text. The plug-in has a built-in option which allows spam deletion from...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Outlook Express, GoodVein, Phishing, Microsoft Outlook, Cyberthreats, Groupware, E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Microsoft Office, Security, Spam And Phishing, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2009-11-01
- CommuniGate Pro 5.2.17 (Mac)
- Welcome to CommuniGate Pro, the Internet messaging server application implementing: Multi-domain support with and without IP multihoming, multi-mailbox accounts and shared mailboxes, Internet mail exchange service using the ESMTP protocol, anti-spam mechanisms, and much more.
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Anti-spam, Server, CommuniGate Systems, Internet, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing
- Software downloads 2009-11-01
- Facebook beats the 'spam king'
- Good luck collecting that judgment award. ntntRE: Facebook beats the 'spam king'Ive always wondered why governments/courts don't do more on tackling spam. Surely regardless of where they are based, some pressure can be exerted by the government, onto local governments, if they don't comply, limit/block the whole countries internet...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Government, INTERNET, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, e-mail, Facebook, spam king, spam
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Facebook beats the 'spam king'
- Facebook won a $711 million judgegment against "spam king" Sanford Wallace for violating the Can-Spam Act, which bans "false and misleading" marketing emails. Facebook was awarded $711m in a judgement on Thursday against self-described 'spam king' Sanford Wallace. Judge Jeremy Fogel of the US District Court...
- Tags: Facebook, Marketing Research, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, spam, Sanford Wallace, Steven Musil CNET News
- News items 2009-10-30
- Phishing experiment sneaks through all anti-spam filters
- Not mine.My e-mail address is not known to spammers and I haven't received spam ever since my Hosted Exchange provider uses a Barracuda Spam Filter.Sorry, you can't take advantage of my trust unless I know you for years -- even decades. :)And by the way, please mind your feelings as...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, anti-spam, e-mail, spam, phishing
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Phishing experiment sneaks through all anti-spam filters
- A recently conducted ethical phishing New study details the dynamics of successful phishing experiment impersonating LinkedIn by mailing invitations coming from Bill Gates, has achieved a 100% success rate in bypassing the anti-spam filters it was tested against. The experiment emphasizes on how small-scale spear phishing campaigns...
- Tags: Anti-spam, LinkedIn, E-mail, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Needles and haystacks: Balancing precision and recall
- Attivio's Sid Probstein says for traditional search, the conventional model is to return many results to get high recall; somewhere in there are the right answers. But what if you want a more precise answer? Commentary - These terms are bandied about in most every...
- Tags: Recall, Pregnancy, Attivio, Spam Email, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, search, Sid Probstein Attivio, Special to ZDNet, Sid Probstein Attivio, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-10-29
- WOT for Firefox 20091028 (Windows)
- Keep yourself safe from spyware, adware, spam, viruses, browser exploits, unreliable online shops, phishing, and other Internet scams. With the free WOT browser add-on, you can easily see the reliability of companies and websites. WOT will warn you and save your computer before you interact with a harmful site. WOT,...
- Tags: Web, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows, Web Site, Web Browser, Phishing Web Site, WOT, WOT Rating, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Web Browsers, Web Site Development, Spam, Channel Management, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
- Facebook password-reset spam is Bredolab botnet attack
- Virus hunters are raising the alarm for a large-scale spam attack that uses fake Facebook password-reset messages to trick PC users into downloading a dangerous piece of malware. by Ryan Naraine
- Tags: Facebook, Spam, Virus, Attack, Virus Hunter, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Netgate Internet Security 3.0.205 (Windows)
- Netgate Internet Security, a bundle comprising of FortKnox Personal Firewall and Spy Emergency, is a complete security protection solution against all of the most serious Internet threats, including spyware, viruses, adware, trojans, worms, rootkits, phishing, spam and hackers consisting of anti-spyware, anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-rootkit, anti-phishing and firewall technologies. With built-in...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, NETGATE Technologies, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Internet, Firewalls, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Rootkits, Spam And Phishing, Networking
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- Atrise Stealth 1.2 (Windows)
- The program is an ultimate HTML source hide, images, forms and antispam protection software from spam bots and humans. The program allows you to use any of 13 protection methods. The second generation protection technology from the HTMLock developer. The program is based on the second generation protection methods. The...
- Tags: Software, Anti-spam, Microsoft Windows, Multi-threading, Atrise Software, Tools & Techniques, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Management, Security, Spam And Phishing
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
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