- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (May 23 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0672326396
- ISBN-13: 978-0672326394
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16.1 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,325,230 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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We've all seen it — the e-mails that come to us from a sender we don't know and promise a frog that jumps across our screen, a low mortgage rate or a medical miracle pill. These e-mails are otherwise known as spam. Your inbox gets cluttered or worse, your computer is infected with a virus as you scratch your head, wondering how it ever happened. Now there is a way to stop the madness! Canning Spam: You've Got Mail (That You Don't Want) is your remedy to inbox clutter and infected computers. Learn how spammers get your e-mail address and how to stop them, how viruses are transmitted through attachments, how spammers can mask their true identity and how to ultimately block unwanted e-mails. Next time you log in to your e-mail account, be happy to hear those three little words: “You've Got Mail!”
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We've all seen it — the e-mails that come to us from a sender we don't know and promise a frog that jumps across our screen, a low mortgage rate or a medical miracle pill. These e-mails are otherwise known as spam. Your inbox gets cluttered or worse, your computer is infected with a virus as you scratch your head, wondering how it ever happened. Now there is a way to stop the madness! Canning Spam: You've Got Mail (That You Don't Want) is your remedy to inbox clutter and infected computers. Learn how spammers get your e-mail address and how to stop them, how viruses are transmitted through attachments, how spammers can mask their true identity and how to ultimately block unwanted e-mails. Next time you log in to your e-mail account, be happy to hear those three little words: “You've Got Mail!”
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This review is from: Canning Spam: You've Got Mail (That You Don't Want) (Paperback)
A very easy to read book that goes through various aspects of spam, and how to minimise your exposure to it. Of course, you need to be familiar with email, because you're getting spam, aren't you? But other than that, the technical background needed to understand the authors' points is minimal.They explain clearly and in simple terms why spam exists, and the common ways in which spammers can get your email address and the typical characteristics of the spam that they send. Various simple antispam techniques are shown. These are mostly aimed at the end user. For example, they suggest that you do not post your email address widely on the net. Or, if you post it on your web page, you choose something like drawing it in an image, so that a spam bot cannot harvest it. Or having an obscure address, like j0e3892@someisp.com, instead of a simple joe@someisp.com. So that your address cannot be found by a dictionary attack. The problem with the authors' suggestions is that they undermine a lot of the usefulness of email. For example, having a short and simple address helps others remember it and type it correctly. And being able to just disseminate addresses widely was and still remains a core utility of email.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Easy to understand,
By W Boudville - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Canning Spam: You've Got Mail (That You Don't Want) (Paperback)
A very easy to read book that goes through various aspects of spam, and how to minimise your exposure to it. Of course, you need to be familiar with email, because you're getting spam, aren't you? But other than that, the technical background needed to understand the authors' points is minimal.They explain clearly and in simple terms why spam exists, and the common ways in which spammers can get your email address and the typical characteristics of the spam that they send. Various simple antispam techniques are shown. These are mostly aimed at the end user. For example, they suggest that you do not post your email address widely on the net. Or, if you post it on your web page, you choose something like drawing it in an image, so that a spam bot cannot harvest it. Or having an obscure address, like j0e3892@someisp.com, instead of a simple joe@someisp.com. So that your address cannot be found by a dictionary attack. The problem with the authors' suggestions is that they undermine a lot of the usefulness of email. For example, having a short and simple address helps others remember it and type it correctly. And being able to just disseminate addresses widely was and still remains a core utility of email. 2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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this is the book I was looking for,
By Charles Oriez - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Canning Spam: You've Got Mail (That You Don't Want) (Paperback)
Although aimed at the end user, the book is also a must read for anyone setting email policies for company mail servers. it explains the connections between spam and viruses, how to avoid infecting your computer, howe to avoid getting onto spam lists, and all the spammer tricks to evade detection and point the blame for their spam to innocent parties. I thought I knew just about everything there was to know about spam. When half way through the book I was going into my copy of Eudora and modifying my environment to follow the author's advice, I knew that I was reading a book written by someone who knew his stuff. If I wrote a book on spam fighting and avoidance, this is the one that I would have wanted to write.
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Berglund Center for Internet Studies Review by Jeffrey Barlow,
By Berglund Center for Internet Studies - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Canning Spam: You've Got Mail (That You Don't Want) (Paperback)
There are many books offering a useful introduction to spam. One of the best we have encountered recently is Jeremy Poteet's Canning Spam. You've Got Mail (That You Don't Want). Published by SAMS Publishing, a house with much experience in producing useful introductory works, Canning Spam should be very useful to almost all of our readers... If you were to begin reading in some of the intermediate chapters, you might well find this work intimidating. But if you allow the author to lead you gently into an otherwise confusing world, you will find Canning Spam worthwhile. It is both a sort of brief encyclopedia of e-mail based threats and a pragmatic approach to reducing them...For a full review see Interface, Volume 4, Issue 4. |
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