Re: A new level of spam?

["Larry Usselman" <elgrans -at- gmail -dot- com>]

I highly recommend the WOT (Web of Trust) free Internet security
plug-in for your browser. It does an excellent job of alerting you to
dangerous or otherwise undesirable (trojans, viruses, phishing, porn,
scams, etc.) sites BEFORE you click and find yourself somewhere you'd
rather not be. It displays a small color-coded icon next to any
hyperlinks, advising you of the relative safety of that site. The
accuracy of the coding is quite good and is updated constantly via
user input.

Here's the WOT site: http://www.mywot.com/

On 8/21/08, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> wrote:
> Junk mail filtering looks at the plain text content of the message and
>  associates it with other known junk mail. Antispyware scans e-mail
>  attachments for malicious content. But neither one investigates the
>  linked Wed addresses embedded in the e-mail message.
>
>  Firefox and Google can check a Web address for malicious content
>  *before* you go to it. You'd think that there would be a way to link
>  that functionality with an antispyware program. I use Spy Sweeper at
>  home and wrote to the vendor (Webroot) about this; their response was
>  essentially, "Sorry, no can do."
>

-- 
Larry Usselman
Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania
My Photos: http://www.pbase.com/snargle
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

ComponentOne Doc-To-Help gives you everything you need to author and 
publish quality Help, Web, and print content. Perfect for technical 
authors, developers, and policy writers. Download a FREE trial.
http://www.componentone.com/DocToHelp/

True single source, conditional content, PDF export, modular help.
Help & Manual is the most powerful authoring tool for technical
documentation. Boost your productivity! http://www.helpandmanual.com

---
You are currently subscribed to TECHWR-L as archive -at- web -dot- techwr-l -dot- com -dot- 

To unsubscribe send a blank email to 
techwr-l-unsubscribe -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
or visit http://lists.techwr-l.com/mailman/options/techwr-l/archive%40web.techwr-l.com


To subscribe, send a blank email to techwr-l-join -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com

Send administrative questions to admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com -dot-  Visit
http://www.techwr-l.com/ for more resources and info.