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Hacking and Security Markets

By The Mortals of Questa Volta in History, Spam Messages, Spam Solutions, The Mortals of QuestaVolta on June 21, 2015February 29, 2016hacking, malware, security, virus

Unfortunately, one rule of thumb is if hacker wants in, there is always a way. The hacking and security markets are very large, we do a ton of stuff to […]

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What is Backscatter?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Questions Answered, Spam Messages, Spam Solutions on December 30, 2011February 29, 2016

Article from Ron Edison, Founder and CTO of Internet Defense Technology What is backscatter? These are bounces generated by spam that is sent with forged return paths (as most spam […]

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Why can’t I just answer all spam emails and tell them to stop?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Etiquette, Spam Messages, Spam Solutions on June 29, 2011February 29, 2016

I know it seems almost unbelievable that this could be the case, but the reality is, Spammers are some of the most unscrupulous people and if you were to email […]

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Post-irritated: Spam and the Filter’s Make It so Hard to be on Email

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Effects Across Industries, Etiquette, Spam Messages, Spam Solutions on April 21, 2011February 29, 2016

There are so many problems with service based internet issues today it’s a wonder anyone still emails! From Spam, to Malware, to Viruses, Phishing attempts and on and on it […]

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“Out of Office”

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Etiquette, Spam Solutions on April 24, 2010February 29, 2016

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 […]

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How much does spam cost us?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Email Studies, Questions Answered, Spam Solutions, What Others Doing on July 1, 2009February 29, 2016

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 […]

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99% of Email Sent, We Blocked as Spam

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Email Studies, Spam Messages, Spam Solutions on June 3, 2009February 29, 2016

Just one of our systems blocked 13.1 million messages in one week. That equaled 99% of all traffic sent through it!  Meaning that our customers servers never had to bear […]

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Why SAAS (Software As A Service) is Better than Software in Regards to Handling Spam

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Spam Solutions, What Others Doing on May 20, 2009February 29, 2016

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, […]

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Philosophies of Spam Solutions

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Effects Across Industries, Etiquette, History, Spam Solutions, What Others Doing on May 11, 2009February 29, 2016

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 […]

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What was your first email of 2009?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Effects Across Industries, Etiquette, Spam Solutions, What Others Doing on January 2, 2009February 29, 2016

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 […]

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Social Media Spam

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Effects Across Industries, Spam Solutions on November 18, 2008February 29, 2016

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 […]

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Question: How Do Spammers Make Any Money?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Etiquette, Questions Answered, Spam Messages, Spam Solutions on September 29, 2008February 29, 2016

I get asked this a lot too and did a an early post called How Many People Actually Buy Something from Spam? which covers this subject. Basically this is a […]

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Question: How Long Before I Get Spam?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Questions Answered, Spam Messages, Spam Solutions on September 22, 2008February 29, 2016

Been seeing a lot of people talking about changing their email address to get away from the spam. They wonder how long before they are going to have to change […]

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