Losing Your Mind with Data Recovery
Losing all your data is a very traumatic experience for any computer user. This is especially true if you use your system for business or other important matters. Losing information that you have worked long and hard to accumulate can be very stressful, to say the least.
Everyone knows that it is a good idea to back up data on your computer every so often, however did you know you should check that backup? It will compound your frustration to find out what you thought was adequately backed up is not functioning correctly when you need it most.
Data loss can happen to anyone, even the most perceptive computer user or business can experience this problem. The problem is people tend to think… Continue reading...
Identity Theft and the Economy
The economy is in an economic downturn. When that happens, it brings about other consequences in our society. For one, crime increases. Protect yourself from identity thieves who want to separate you from your money.
Identity thieves use high tech methods to find ways of defrauding innocent people. They come up with telephone scams, internet website scams, email scams and other ingenious plans, like taking photos of your card with a cell phone camera. When times are hard, these same thieves could resort to less sophisticated ways of stealing.
Consumers have become smarter in order to outsmart identity thieves. You read articles and booklets on how to protect yourself from these criminals. That includes shredding mail, being careful when shopping online, paying bills online… Continue reading...
Take Control of the Email Deliverability Problem
Although internet marketing through the mass mailing method has become popular among web based business owners, one of the biggest and most fundamental flaws of this system is the question of email deliverability.
This process usually involves selecting a mass mailing service with a high rate of successful email deliveries, and lower ‘bounce rate.’ This service then sends a designated amount of emails promoting your product or service to random email account holders, and some of the recipients may become potential customers to your company.
However, this might be too much of a risk to take since, inspite of their claims, these services may not actually possess an extensive number of valid email addresses, hence the deliverability problem, which… Continue reading...
The Costs of Spam
The sheer volume of spam that is mailed out every minute has reached epidemic proportions. There is one simple reason for this, the cost is little and the rewards are excellent. Anyone with a list of addresses and internet access can send out thousands or millions of messages with a click. The cost to others however is now running in the millions of dollars.
Bandwidth
Spam costs everyone valuable internet bandwidth that is used for spam instead of legitimate business or personal use. Bandwidth is the rate at which data is transmitted, particularly the amount that can be transmitted in a specific amount of time. The lower bandwidth rate, the slower information travels.
Think of it as a traffic jam on a major highway… Continue reading...
How Spammers Get Your Email Address
Spam represents a large amount of mail sent, with thousands and thousands sent everyday worldwide. The worst part of it all is that some of the spam is coming from what appears to be your email address! So how exactly do spammers get your email address? Unfortunately, there are many ways spammers can access your email address with very few being legitimate.
Spammers use a technique known as “harvesting,” where they collect your email address from legitimate websites like USENET, chat rooms, message boards, AOL profile pages, and special interest group postings. They are sites you have visited and filled out a request info form leaving your contact information or ecommerce sites where you have placed orders.
Technology has aided… Continue reading...
Online Data Protection
Data protection is very important for companies who carry out most of their operations with the help of computers or other electronic devices. As well, personal computers need to have a backup system in case of computer crashes. While computers are wonderful inventions and great timesavers, they can’t be completely relied upon, and they may crash at any point in time. Having data backups is essential for a smooth, uninterrupted business operation as well as maintaining peace of mind at home. If you’re a happy-go-lucky person, take the time to get organized and implement an effective data backup strategy before you wind up paying a heavy price in valuable information being lost. Anything can happen and disasters occur anywhere. These things can… Continue reading...
Spam - What is Your Protection Under the Law?
Spam has become the scourge of the internet world over the past several years, costing honest businesses much in time and money.
As the spam epidemic has grown the government has enacted the CAN-SPAM act (Controlling the Assault of Non Solicited Pornography and Marketing). This act has attempted to legislate the activities of any company hoping to send bulk commercial email as well as companies that are marketing their products in the messages. It has created stiffer penalties for those who violate it and gives the consumer the right and the way to ask that spammers cease and desist.
The CAN-SPAM act was signed in January of 2004. This act covers any and all emails whose express purpose is advertising or promotion. Even including… Continue reading...
Don’t Fall for the Phisher’s Bait
You should never respond to an unsolicited email that asks you to update or verify personal information, such as bank account or social security numbers. Banks, stores, and other real businesses will never ask for this information through email, especially after an incident involved in a phishing scam. Most real business will ask you to verify your info over the phone or in person.
It is always best to immediately contact a company directly if you have any doubts about an email you received asking for information. Use the contact number listed on your invoice or statement, because the contact number on the email will most likely direct you to the identity thief.
You should never click on any links in an email you… Continue reading...
How to Report Spam Abuse
There are many different types of spam we have to deal with in our inbox. In order to report spam to the proper authorities you must know where to forward the spam emails. Any type of spam is illegal and subject to prosecution. In order to do this, however, it must be proven that the email is truly spam.
It is important to forward the entire email to the proper authorities. The header of an email shows all the computers the email passed through on its way to you. Most go through at least four computers. This includes the sender’s computer, his or her ISP, your ISP, and your computer. Although the address the email came from is hidden, an anti spam service… Continue reading...
Five Tips to Protect Yourself from the Spam in Your Inbox
Spam has become an unfortunate part of life; you probably received some just today in your email. What you do with the junk mail when you get it will determine how much of this annoying stuff you get from now on. In addition, you can also protect yourself from various scams such as credit card fraud and identity theft as well as viruses and other internet crimes. The next time you check your email use these five tips to put a stop to spammers for good.
Do not Preview
If your email comes with a preview option, you will want to disable this function. The reason this is so important is many spam type emails contain an imbedded code that will infiltrate… Continue reading...
