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Detecting email scams

Email anti-spam filters are often pretty bad at protecting email users. They let bad email through and block good messages with such regularity that I don’t really include them as part of my overall Internet safety strategy. The spam filters that come along with...

Are you spamming your friends?

“You are sending me spam email,” I recently wrote to one of my customers. Of course, he had no idea he had sent me an email promoting assorted “enhancement” products, but, nonetheless, that’s what happened. He also had no idea he had sent...

When good computers go bad

“What happened to my computer? What made it stop working?” I hear this sort of question all the time. Sometimes, I have a logical, easy-to-understand answer. Other times, my answer sounds something like this: “I know it sounds crazy, but, sometimes, Microsoft Windows...