Spam Virus

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As a business owner online, you face the insidious Internet security risks whenever you're online. Viruses, hackers, spam and waiting for you at every turn. The reality is that these threats will always be a part of being online and trade online. Unfortunately, they seem to be here to stay.

Since there are a number of precautions you can take to make you, your business and your site visitors as safe as possible. Here are 8 proven tactics to improve your Internet security:

1. Virus Protection. Make sure the antivirus updates installed on your computer and let the software properly analyze your entire computer every day to ensure that no viruses are able to plant on your hard disk. Set your virus checker to scan your e-mail when it downloads, as well.

I use AVG Free to scan both my computer and my e-mail. They also paid version that offers a complete Internet protection. Norton and McAfee also offer similar products.

For protection against spyware and malware, I use CounterSpy. The company that makes this software also has a new product to protect against viruses and spyware VIPRE called.

2. Spam Blocker. I have a spam blocker that I use with Outlook called Cloudmark Desktop, which did an excellent job of helping me form my mail program to recognize spam. What I like about this program is that users of the program say what Cloudmark spam arrives in their mailbox, and programmers Cloudmark update accordingly recognize these emails. Other programs include spam blocker and iHateSpam MailWasher.

3. Web Hosting Spam Blocker. To block spam before it even touches my Outlook Inbox, one of my hosting accounts offer Postini spam blocking on my server. I pay a few dollars more each month to add this feature, but it's worth it, because it often blocks at least 100 emails a day are spam. I still have the option to connect to this account if I miss an e-mail that may have landed there by chance, and I can "whitelist" the sender that he goes out without problem the next time . Each evening, the service sends me a list of emails that are questionable (eg the service is not sure if it's spam), and I quickly scan them to approve all those who have been misidentified.

4. E-mail spam. One of the easiest ways your e-mail address is added to lists of e-mail spam is mass including a clear link with your e-mail on your website. Regularly patrol the Internet from spambots looking for email addresses easily available online from the harvest. Even if you have the link "hidden" by saying "Click here to e-mail," which will reveal your email address in the e-mail address of the visitor, the spambot can read the HTML source and harvest e-mail.

Instead, remove your e-mail off all of your websites. Use the contact form for people you e-mail that integrates technology CAPTCHA (where the form-filling is to read a graphic representation of a word or a number or numbers to prove that he / she is not spam). I use the free version of Freedback for this task.

5. Spam mailing list. If your e-mail address must be on the mailing lists, blogs, forums or message, use a free email address, such as those available to Gmail or Yahoo. This way, you protect your "real email address" to be picked up by spambots.

6. Address catchall e-mail. If your provider allows the company to create a catchall email address that receives all mail not specifically marked for e-mail or POP email set before you could have put in place. When you register for a free gift to someone, for example.