Spam and Viruses!

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The guest on this programme was Andy Dowling who is a lecturer in Computer Science in NUI Maynooth.

 

In researching this programme I found the following page to be helpful.

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~gcaselton/spam/spam.html

In the first part of the programme we spoke about spam. Andy recommends the following sites if you want to learn how to control the amount of spam that you receive.

http://digital.net/~gandalf/spamfaq.html 

  (SPAM FAQ)

http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html

(Address Munging)

http://www.cauce.org

  (CAUCE US)

http://www.euro.cauce.org/en/index.html

  (CAUCE EU)

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/software/windows/anti_spam/

(Anti-SPAM tools)


We also discussed the topic of viruses (virii?) on the programme. If you choose any of the following virus protection packages remember that it is important to update the software regularly since new viruses are constantly emerging.

At the start of this section I quoted from this month's edition of Web User magazine (which is at a special introductory price of £1.42). The website for this magazine is:http://www.web-user.co.uk/home/

 

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/        

(Anti-Virus Information)

http://www.mcafee-at-home.com/anti-virus-center/default.asp

(Anti-Virus Information)

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html

(Virus HOAXES)

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