“Out of Office”
I have on occasion gotten an “out of office” message from someone, usually not a close friends, but some business contact. While I appreciate the answer, there is some risk in doing this. There are spammers who specifically send out messages with just one line of garbage in it. While you may feel it is …
How much does spam cost us?
Every year or two, Ferris Research updates its estimates for the total cost of spam, earlier this year they did the 2009 estimates . Their estimates: "Worldwide, spam will cost us all $130 billion; in the U.S. alone, $42 billion. That’s a 30% increase over our 2007 estimates, which themselves were a 100% increase over …
Why SAAS (Software As A Service) is Better than Software in Regards to Handling Spam
Firstly you do not need to install yet another piece of Software on your computers, and if you have a company of any size this can for sure be cumbersome, even if it is a server side push install to the whole base. Spam and AV Software is known to slow windows systems down drastically, …
Philosophies of Spam Solutions
Our CTO and founder, Ron Edison, recently wrote an article for Business Solutions Magazine called Philosophies of Spam Solutions. It is now being featured on their website and I wanted to give you an excerpt here: While spam by the billions reaches out to users around the globe, they are scanned, blocked, deleted, sorted, filtered, …
What was your first email of 2009?
Been seeing people complain on twitter that the first email they received in 2009 was spam. While I would love to offer each and everyone of those people a trial of our email filtering software (haven’t heard anything from our guys) it is an interesting thing to note. The “email marketing” and spamming culture in …
Social Media Spam
Email spam is just one form of spam. Unfortunately any channel in which communication can flow, gets spam put on it. Join any social media site and soon you will find people spamming you. Luckily, it is easier to unfriend someone who spams you on social media sites. What I would recommend is when someone …