Spam / Virus Info

In Internet terms, spam refers to junk email—any email, usually commercial, that gets sent to a large number of Internet users without their consent.

A virus is a harmful program that hides itself in other innocent programs. At best, they're annoying. At worst, they can destroy the data on your computer.

Some unscrupulous companies try to gather your personal information or force you to visit their websites without your consent, using a kind of program called spyware. If your computer is behaving strangely, or it keeps taking you to websites you don't want, or you have a weird or annoying program on your computer which you can't get rid of, you may have been infected with spyware. You can find more info on spyware, with tools to help you detect and remove it, at http://www.spywareinfo.com/.

The links below provide some facts about spam and how to stop it or slow it down.

Useful Links about spam:

Blacklisting FAQ
Fight Spam on the Internet!
Death To Spam—a guide to dealing with unwanted email
Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
Spam Cop—offers a free service for reporting email abuse
Stopping Spam—the O'Reilly book on dealing with email abuse