EMAIL TOOLS - STOP BOTHERING ME - NO EMAIL SPAM, DO NOT CALL LIST, DO NOT SNAIL MAIL LIST
About Email
Email has a Long Life Privacy Issues |
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BotNets
David Dagon, a Georgia Institute of Technology researcher who is a co-founder of Damballa, a start-up company focusing on controlling botnets, said the consensus among scientists is that botnet programs are present on about 11 percent of the more than 650 million computers attached to the Internet. Plagues of viruses and other malicious programs have periodically swept through the Internet since 1988, when there were only 60,000 computers online. Each time, computer security managers and users have cleaned up the damage and patched holes in systems. In recent years, however, such attacks have increasingly become endemic, forcing increasingly stringent security responses. And the emergence of botnets has alarmed not just computer security experts, but also specialists who created the early Internet infrastructure. According to the annual intelligence report of MessageLabs, a New York-based computer security firm, more than 80 percent of all spam now originates from botnets. Last month, for the first time ever, a single Internet service provider generated more than one billion spam e-mail messages in a 24-hour period, according to a ranking system maintained by Trend Micro, the computer security firm.
So far botnets have predominantly infected Windows-based computers, although there have been scattered reports of botnet-related attacks on computers running the Linux and Macintosh operating systems. The programs are often created by small groups of code writers in Eastern
Europe and elsewhere and distributed in a variety of ways, including e-mail attachments and downloads by users who do not know they are getting something malicious. They can even be present in pirated software sold on online auction sites. Once installed on Internet-connected PCs, they can be controlled using a widely available communications system called Internet Relay Chat, or I.R.C. There are more than 250,000 new botnet infections daily - 2007
1) How to keep your email off a webpage to prevent a bot from harvesting it.
- 2003 Spam Law PDF
- Email Harvesting Robots (aka spambots). Learn to hide your email address from bad bots who troll to grab and spam. Autonomous bots spider the web day and night in waves, crawling pages and following links until they discover an unsuspecting MAILTO tag. Then they pounce, devouring the address and sending it deep into the bowels of the web where the ugly, festering spam companies dwell.
- Try Hivelogic Email Address Encoder to encode your email address for use on webpages.This is using a Numerical Equivalent code to foil the bots.
- Also create a text image of you email address, or try using E-Mail Icon Generator. People will have to write down your email address to send you an email and it will keep spam away as they can not read it.
- Text message someone immediately.
How do I eliminate a yahoo address completely?
I want to stop an old address I no longer want from still getting email.
DO NOT CALL LIST
National Do Not Call List - First register your phone, cell phone and fax
or then try calling 1-888-382-1222 Telemarketers who call numbers on the list will face penalties of up to $11,000 per call, as well as possible lawsuits from consumers and state attorneys general. This is where you REPORT the nasty phone calls you are getting.
DO NOT SEND JUNK SNAIL MAIL TO ME
This will stop junk mail from these companies for up to five years.
Your name will be put on a "delete" file that is updated four times a year-in January, April, July and October-and made available to direct-mail and telephone marketers. Two to three months after your name is entered into file, solicitations you receive should decrease. However, your registration will not stop mailings or calls from organizations not registered with the DMA's Mail and Telephone Preference Services.
DMA Mail Preference Service
PO Box 9008
Farmingdale, NY 11735-9008
SAME SERVICE FOR TELEMARKETERS:
Telephone Preference Service
PO Box 1559
Carmel, NY 10512
Download print and send in FORM 1500
Stop junk mail by contacting the USPS. This form allows you to request that a certain company not send any more mail to your address. The catch is that it should only be used to stop explicit or pornographic material, however- YOU are the deciding factor when labeling something as such. So theoretically, you can request that whatever company you want to obey your request as stated in this form and after it has been processed, you should not receive mail from them again. On form 1500 it is the option to issue "prohibitory order against sender of pandering advertisement in the mails." So, look for that, send it in- one step closer to being junk mail free!
America on-line call 1-800-827-6364 (6am-2am EST) and demand to be taken off of the list.
Magazines - look up the 800 number and ask them to take you off of their list.
| Acxiom CORP. Attn: Opt Out PO Box 2000 Conway, AR 72033-2000 1-800-922-9466
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American Business information inc. Attn: Product Quality PO Box 27347 Omaha, NE 68127 |
Publishing Clearinghouse Sweepstakes 101 Channel Dr Port Washington, NY 11050 1-800-645-9242 1-800-453-0272 (fax) |
Donnelly Marketing, inc Attn: Data Base Operations PO Box 3502 Ames, iA 50010-3502 888-633-4402 |
| American Family Sweetpstakes 1-800-237-2400 American Family Publishers PO Box 62000 Tampa, FL 33662 |
Readers Digest Sweepstakes Readers Digest Rd. Pleasantville NY 10570 800-678-2743 |
The Polk Company Attn: Opt Out 26955 Northwestern Hwy Southfield, MI 48034-8455 800-873-7655 |
ABACUS PO Box 1478 Broomfield, CO 80038 800-518-4453 |
| Haines and Company, inc. Criss-Cross Directory Attn: Director of Data Processing 8050 Freedom Ave NW Canton, OH 44720 |
Dataquick 877-970-9171 |
ADVO INC. |
VAL-PAK Coupons- 1661 Worchester Rd Framingham, MA 01701 800-676-6878 |
FUNKY EMAIL CHARACTERS - you are seeing all these funky characters in your email and don't know what is causing this problem.
Ode to the Email Spell Checker
Eye halve a spelling chequer.
It came with my pea sea.
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And Eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined
awl miss steaks!
Author unknown.
