Posts Tagged ‘SPAM’

Fotec’s top tips for keeping your Email running smoothly

IT Support

12% of calls we receive at Fotec involve email, and even though we’re very good at sorting them out, here are the 5 simple users can do for themselves to prevent the problems….
Start with The Big One: Archive your Mail:
Many people have huge Outlook mailboxes: 2GB is common, and this slows down everything. To speed up [...]

15March

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Fotec White Paper: Can you ever guarantee IT Security ?

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How sure can you be that your security will never be compromised ? Can it ever be guaranteed ? The short answer is No, but there are many simple and inexpensive ways to ensure much greater security.
In this new White Paper, Fotec discuss the ways you can increase your level of IT Security. [...]

9November

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10,000 European Hotmail passwords leaked online

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According to neowin.net, a technology web site, an anonymous user posted details of 10,000 Microsoft Hotmail, Windows Live, and MSN accounts on Pastebin.com, an online crowdsourcing web site. The addresses and passwords were for addresses starting with A and B and were thought to have been harvested using phishing techniques, where a seemingly official email [...]

29October

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SPAM costs the Earth

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We all know spam wastes time and slows network performance, but new research has found it’s also bad for the environment. ICF International reported that 62 trillion unsolicited emails were sent last year, using 33 terawatt hours of electricity. That’s the equivalent to the energy used by 3 million cars in a year – or [...]

29October

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I.T. Spam back to 94% of all email

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Spam has finally recovered from the jolt it received last November when ISPs cut off the Californian based web-hoster McColo, from which spammers were trafficking email attacks. Taking down McColo reduced the levels of Spam on the Internet by two thirds at a stroke, but gradually the figures have been on their way back [...]

29October

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