Archive for January, 2007

Fighting Email Spam

Monday, January 8th, 2007

It seems no matter what you do, your email account gets filled with spam emails.  You try to fight it, but it seems the spammers always find a way around your defenses.  But there are some almost effortless steps you can take to make their actions unsuccessful. (more…)

Blog Pinging using EZRSSPinger

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

Like most of you, I know the value of pinging sites such as Technorati when one of my blogs has been updated.  There are a lot of places you can go besides there to let others know your blog has been updated.  However, I would have to enter in all my information every time I wanted to ping a site and then hope the site was actually working.  In my opinion, it was a big time waster and one of those tedious tasks I hated doing. (more…)

Advances in Email Security

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

Email is a common way for viruses to infection your computer.  No matter how many warnings are issued to avoid opening emails from people they do not know, each day there are users that do just that and suffer the consequences.

One of the biggest problems with email viruses is that they don’t usually stop after infection one computer.  Many will access your address book without your knowledge and send the infected email to everyone on it, spreading the virus even further and further. (more…)