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1 online resource (xxv, 334 pages) : illustrations |
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Why Is Your Computer Suffering from Email and Virus Gunk? -- What the Experts Know -- Understanding How You Got So Gunked Up -- The 10 Key Causes of Email Gunk -- The 10 Key Causes of Virus Gunk -- Identity Theft -- The Strategy Behind Degunking -- Important Questions to Ask Yourself -- Email Management 101 -- Combating Spam with Filtering Techniques -- Setting Up a Virus Protection System -- Preventing the Installation of Spyware and Adware -- Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft -- Setting Up a Firewall to Protect Against Internet Worms -- Oh, and Don't Forget Your Backups! -- The Email and Malware 12-Step Degunking Program -- Gunk Be Gone -- Creating Your Email Degunking Strategy -- What's Your Email Profile? -- The Public Professional -- The Private Professional -- The Student-Enthusiast -- The Casual Communicator -- Pick Your Profile -- The Three Kinds of Email Addresses -- Using Your Primary Email Address(es) -- Using Your Backup Email Address -- Using Disposable Email Addresses -- Understand Where Email Addresses Come From -- ISP Internet Accounts -- Your Employer's Email System -- Web Hosting Service Email Accounts -- Free Web Mail Accounts -- Freenets and Community Networks -- Back Up Your Internet Access -- Register Your Own Internet Domain -- Obtain and Use "Evaporating" Email Addresses -- Using the Right Email Client -- What Makes a Good Email Client? -- Easy to Learn and Use -- Multiple Mail Accounts -- Hierarchical Folders or Mailboxes -- Binary Attachments -- HTML and Plain-Text Mail -- Protection Against "Spam Beacon" Image Downloads -- Protection Against Scripts in HTML Messages -- Imports Mail from Many Email Clients -- Exports Mail to Standard Formats -- Uses the Windows Address Book -- User-Defined Message Filters -- Easy Backup of Your Mailbase -- Support for POP and IMAP Mailboxes -- Cheap or Free -- Not Too Popular -- The Problem of Software Monoculture -- POP or IMAP? -- My Recommendations -- Protocols: POP vs. IMAP -- Protocols: Client Choices -- Clients and Your Experience Level -- Clients and the Nature of your Work -- Summing Up-Have Client, Will Email! -- Developing Good Email Habits -- Sort Your Email: Keep, Hold, or Pitch? -- Beware the Fold! -- The 100-Message Rule -- Prioritize Your Email with Email Notifiers -- Notifiers: Your Silent Email Partner -- POPTray: Free and Easy -- Install POPTray -- Create POPTray Rules for Critical Senders -- Let POPTray Prioritize Your Mail -- Back Up Your Email -- Have an Email Backup Strategy -- Find Your Mailbase -- Backup Media -- Use Backup Utility Software -- Summing Up-The Habits of Highly Effective Emailers -- Read and Degunk Your Email from Anywhere -- Get Reliable Access to the Net and Your Mail Server -- Understand the Port 25 Blocking Problem -- Using the Local Network for Outbound Mail -- Don't Fork Your Mailbase! -- Leaving Mail on the Server -- Synchronization and the "Holes Don't Travel" Problem -- Traveling with IMAP -- Traveling with Web Mail -- POP Interfaces to Web Mail -- Web Mail Interfaces to POP Accounts -- Use a Client on a Key Chain: Poco EmailVoyager -- Handing Off a Mailbase Between Poco Mail and EmailVoyager -- Use Google's Gamil: "Deep Storage" Web Mail -- Gmail and the Privacy Issue -- Pop Goes the Gmail -- Gmail Loader -- Competitive Pressures -- Summing Up-Traveling Smart -- Cleaning and Organizing Your Mailbase -- Understand the Two Faces of Mailbase Gunk -- Create a Folder Hierarchy -- Apply the Single-Screen Rule -- Use Folders for Topics, not Senders -- Keep Your Time-Delimited Mail in Separate Folders -- Use Folders within Folders Carefully -- Sort Your Email into Folders -- Clean Your Attachments Folder -- The Trouble with Attachments -- File Extensions and File Types -- Clean Up the Odds and Ends -- Watch Out for Abandoned Drafts -- Delete Obsolete or Duplicate Copies of Your Mailbase -- Outlook's Mailbase and Windows Address Book -- Remove Outlook Express Email Gunk from the Windows Registry -- Editing the Registry with REGEDIT32 -- Email Spring Cleaning -- Summing Up-Clean Me Now ... or Clean Me Later! -- Avoid Becoming a Spam Magnet! -- Understand the Prime Directive Against Spam -- Don't Buy from Spammers! -- Don't Respond to Sneaky Spam Messages -- Friends Don't Let Friends Buy from Spammers! -- Why Is Stopping Spam So Hard? -- Choose a Spam-Resistant Email Address -- Avoid Dictionary Attacks -- More Advice on Choosing an Email Address -- Don't Hand Your Email Address to Spammers! -- Never Post Your Email Address on the Web -- Never Unsubscribe from a Spammer Mailing List -- Check to See if Listservs ARe Archived to the Web -- Obfuscate Your Email Address on Newsgroups and Discussion Boards -- Use Disposable Email Addresses for E-Commerce -- Don't Complain to a Spammer's ISP -- Avoid Triggering Other People's Spam Filters -- Summing Up-From Prevention to Cure -- Understand the Spam Filtering Conundrum -- Understand Spam Filtering Jargon -- Develop a Good Spam-Fighting Philosophy -- Love Your Address Book-and Use It! -- Use Your Address Book as Your Whitelist -- Use Content Filtering -- Automatic or Manual Filtering? -- Filtering on Sender Addresses and Domains -- Is It a Spammer Domain? -- Filtering on Key Words in the Subject -- Filtering on Key Words or Domains in the Message Body -- Watch Out for False Positives when Creating Filters! -- Run Your Spam Filters in the Correct Order -- "Inbox Thinning" with POPTray -- Defining Spam Filters in POPTray -- Deep-Clean Your Spam Using Bayesian Spam Filtering -- Degunk Your Spam with Statistics -- The Bayesian Regimen -- The Bayesian Downside -- Learn about POPFile -- Why Is POPFile So Good? -- Install POPFile -- Selecting POPFile's Install-Time Buckets -- Configuring Your Email Client to Use POPFile -- What Happens When POPFile Checks Mail -- Train and Use POPFile -- Training POPFile -- Setting Up a Spam Category Filter in Your Email Client -- Use POPFile's Magnets -- Creating Magnets in POPFile -- Back Up and Share POPFile's Corpus Data -- Finding the Corpus -- "Borrowing" a Corpus -- Use Outclass to Access POPFile from Outlook -- Installing Outclass -- Configuring and Using Outclass -- More Outclass Training Tips -- Using Safe View to Inspect Message Source Text -- Avoid Spam Control Methods That Don't Work -- Understand How Antispam Technologies Fail -- Be Careful with Server-Side Spam Filtering -- Watch Out for IP Black Holes -- Malicious Spam Reporting and "Joe Jobs" -- SpamCop -- Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Spam Filtering -- Challenge-Response Spam Blocking -- Captchas: Riddle Me This to Email Me! -- Whitelists Are Everything -- Other Problems With C-R Email Systems -- Why Spamming Should Not Be Illegal -- Keep a Cool Head and Win the War -- Protect Yourself Against Viruses, Trojans, and Worms -- Develop a Malware Master Plan -- Understand the PC Malware Bestiary -- Malware -- Viruses -- Worms -- Trojan Horses -- Back Doors -- Adware -- Spyware -- Social Engineering -- Phishing -- Hackers and Crackers and the Colors of Hats -- Security Holes in Software -- Where the Risks Are -- Malware Defense: From a Height -- Defeat Those Viruses -- Understand What Viruses Are and What They Do -- How You Contract PC Viruses -- Watch Out for "Dangerous" Files and Their Extensions -- Microsoft Office Files and File Extensions -- Havoc from Hiding Windows File Extensions -- How Viruses "Space-Shift Right" to Hide File Extensions -- Disable Microsoft Office Macros -- Macro Viruses in Office Add-Ins and Templates -- Choose an Antivirus Utility -- Using Software Reviews for Purchasing Decisions -- What All Good Antivirus Utilities Should Have -- Things to Watch Out For -- Do You Need Multiple Antivirus Utilities? -- What I Recommend -- Using Trial Products -- Installing a Typical Antivirus Product -- Using a One-Off Virus Removal Utility -- Summing Up-Use Good Virus Hygiene Daily -- Avoid Adware, Spyware, and Browser Bugaboos -- Adware vs. Spyware -- The Two Kinds of Free -- Know What You're Installing! -- Good Adware/Spyware Research Sites -- Use Anti-Spyware Software -- Installing and Using Spybot Search & Destroy -- Why Keep Adware? -- Installing and Using Ad-Aware -- Watch Out for Phony Spyware or Adware Removers -- Implement an Adware/Spyware Strategy -- Be Mindful of Browser Bugaboos -- The Hazards of Internet Explorer -- Drive-By Installs -- Disabling Install On Demand in Internet Explorer -- Beefing Up Security in the Internet Zone -- Disabling Install on Demand in Mozilla Firefox -- Block Pop-Ups! -- Use Limited Windows Accounts for Web Surfing -- Creating a Limited User Account in Windows -- Fast User Switching in Windows XP -- Summing Up-Peddlers Not Invited -- Use Firewalls to Stop Those Worms -- Understand That Worms Are Viruses with Legs -- The Nature of Worm Gunk -- Worms with a Mission -- The Life Cycle of a Worm -- Interfering with the Worm Life Cycle -- Your Worm Defense Strategy -- The Prime Directive in Worm Defense -- Learn the Essentials about Firewalls -- Using Software Firewalls -- Using NAT Firewalls -- Install and Use ZoneAlarm -- Getting ZoneAlarm -- Installing ZoneAlarm -- Understanding ZoneAlarm Zones -- Software Package Permissions -- Deciding Whether to Grant or Deny -- Install and Use the Linksys BEFSR41 Router -- Installing the BEFSR41 -- MAC Address Authentication -- Cloning Your MAC Address -- Tricky: MAC Cloning on an Older Router -- Summing Up-Turning Worms Away -- Degunk Nigerian Rhapsodies, Hoaxes, and Other Smelly Phish -- Degunk Those Viral Hoaxes -- Social Engineering Viruses -- So Why Are Harmless Social Engineering Viruses Wrong? -- Avoid the Nigerian 419 Scams -- Don't Be Victim to Identity Theft Because of Phishing Expeditions -- The New Scourge of the Internet -- Impersonating a Web Site -- "Bait and Switch" Web Links -- How Not to Get Hooked -- Degunking After a Malware Attack -- Understand the Five PC Defense Conditions -- Was It Really Malware? -- Is It Simply Plain Old Windows Gunk? -- How to Handle DefCon 1 |
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"Organize you email so that it works for you! Protect yourself from nasty spam, viruses, and worms." |
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"Organize your email so that it works for you! Protect yourself from nasty snam, viruses, and worms." |
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Includes index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Spam (Electronic mail)
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Computer viruses -- Prevention
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Computer security -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Computer security.
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Computer viruses -- Prevention.
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Spam (Electronic mail)
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United States.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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Electronic book
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