|
|
A Kick-Ass Strategy On Fighting Spam.
There is no excuse any more.
Everybody is annoyed by junk e-mail. I simply would like to share my knowledge in fighting spam for more than 10 years. With the easy techniques I use now I became completely junk e-mail free for almost two years now.
Here are some principles which solely are less effective but in total sum up all of my experiences which I made in the last couple of years. And all of this principles apply to every Internet user, from occasional to power user.
Rule 1 Never publish your real address online. Never ever. Post your address in Myspace, Facebook or even your own site and you'll be flooded with spam within minutes. Whenever possible, try to hide or obfuscate your e-mail address with Javascript oder generate a picture out of your address. Coding it like name-at-domain-dot-com is not enough.
Rule 2 Forget about filters and tools. Don't trust your ISP's junk e-mail filters. From complicated regular expression filters and black listing of known bad mail servers, to semi smart Bayes filtering, none of them keeps its promises. They are always behind the current technics in spamming. The problems with filtering are not the spam mails that are not detected but the good mails which are accidentally hold back or worse erased.
Rule 3 Use throwaway addresses that can be deleted if they begin to pull spam mails. Try finding services which let's you produce those addresses by a finger tip. Every of this fake addresses is redirected to your main address and you can even reply to them, while your real address is always obfuscated. This is by far the best way to communicate with machines, newsletters, shopping sites, etc. And what happens i you got spammed? No problem, just erase the targeted address and that's it.
Rule 4 Never reply to junk e-mail UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER, just delete it. Never let them know that you read and even answer such crap.
Rule 5 Never even open spam mails. They might infect you with a computer virus or confirm your address automatically in the background. Try to delete the suspicious message right on the mail server.
Rule 6 Never click on the links in spam messages, including unsubscribe links. This will only lead to more spam. Also it is best to not open mails from unknown senders in HTML modus.
Rule 7 Never buy anything from a company that spams. Don't pay those guys for molesting you. Don't visit their sites or ask for more information.
Rule 8 Use multiple email addresses for different intentions. This assists you to discover different authors and senders, and lets you filter out more effective
Rule 9 Use services where unknown or anonymous human senders have to authenticate themselves before their mails go from quarantine to your inbox.
Rule 10 Use automatically generated throwaway addresses for communicating with machines (e.g. newsletters, shops, web2.0)
Rule 11 Control if your address is visible to spammers by typing it into a web search engine.
Rule 12 Try using a more complex e-mail address, that is less probably to receive junk e-mail than one that can be easily created with a dictionary-attack. Chose a completely at random created addresses.
Rule 13 Stop using burned addresses. You will never be cleaned from a spammer's list.
Rule 14 Never give out your login details to anyone. Not to your wife, not to your best friend and of course not to your co worker.
Rule 15 Always protect yourself the best possible way. New windows patches, an up to date virus protection and a working firewall are a total must.
Rule 16 Don't use MS Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Outlook or Outlook Express. They are flawy and always an attacker's first potential prey.
|
 |
Please Rate: |
|
Rating: |
 Processing ... |
(Average: Not rated) |
| Views: | 47 | |
|
| More Articles from Spam | | |
| Top Articles in Spam | | |
|
