Hoax-Slayer is a website we discovered a couple of weeks back and a member of our team literally fell in love with it straight away. Graham described it as a ‘website after my own heart’! Therefore, I’ve been set the task to let you know what it’s all about! The description on the Hoax-Slayer website [...]
Today we’re doing our fourth Anti-Virus software comparison. Today we’re looking at Award Winning AVG Internet Security and avast! Professional Edition. Now a lot of you will be sitting there thinking, ‘I’ve never heard of avast!’. avast! are another ‘smaller’ Anti-Virus software company which is snapping at the heals of the ‘Big Three’, AVG, Norton [...]
Are you finding that emails from some of your contacts are sneaking into your Junk Mail/Spam folder? Here is a great little tip for those of you who are running AVG 8/8.5 to stop this happening! Open up the AVG Interface (Start –> Programs –> AVG –> AVG User Interface) Click tools and then advanced [...]
You may find that your AVG Anti-Spam isn’t catching some of your SPAM Emails. There are two different ways to catch SPAM emails. The below tutorial will show you both ways, starting off with HAM. HAM training of Anti-Spam teaches AVG what emails you want. The other method is SPAM training, this teaches AVG which [...]
In the past we have written about recognising spoof emails trying to acquire some form of personal information on you, whether it be from a hoax bank email or website, the problem is becoming much more common and serious. In September 2008 there were over 8,621 Phishing Sites/Emails found and verified. Our previous posts on [...]
You may find that your AVG Anti-Spam isn’t catching some of your SPAM Emails. If this is the case you will need to train AVG. You may have to do this a few times but AVG catches on pretty quick! First of all open up your email program e.g. Microsoft Office 2007 (Although we are [...]
Spam is a huge problem for everyone and while we will never get rid of all of it there are little things that help! So here are a few: Never Respond to Spam, this tells the sender that your address is active. Block Images: Spammers can tell if an image was displayed in an email [...]
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