Degunking your email, spam, and viruses
By: Jeff Duntemann
Publisher: Paraglyph Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Scottsdale, Ariz
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781932111934
Subjects: Computer viruses; Computer security; Handbooks, manuals; Prevention; Spam (Electronic mail)
Description: "Organize you email so that it works for you! Protect yourself from nasty spam, viruses, and worms."
Notes: "Organize you email so that it works for you! Protect yourself from nasty spam, viruses, and worms."

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Why Is Your Computer Suffering from Email and Virus Gunk?; title: What the Experts Know; title: Understanding How You Got So Gunked Up; title: The 10 Key Causes of Email Gunk; title: The 10 Key Causes of Virus Gunk; title: Identity Theft; title: The Strategy Behind Degunking; title: Important Questions to Ask Yourself; title: Email Management 101; title: Combating Spam with Filtering Techniques; title: Setting Up a Virus Protection System; title: Preventing the Installation of Spyware and Adware; title: Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft; title: Setting Up a Firewall to Protect Against Internet Worms; title: Oh, and Don't Forget Your Backups!; title: The Email and Malware 12-Step Degunking Program; title: Gunk Be Gone; title: Creating Your Email Degunking Strategy; title: What's Your Email Profile?; title: The Public Professional; title: The Private Professional; title: The Student-Enthusiast; title: The Casual Communicator; title: Pick Your Profile; title: The Three Kinds of Email Addresses; title: Using Your Primary Email Address(es); title: Using Your Backup Email Address; title: Using Disposable Email Addresses; title: Understand Where Email Addresses Come From; title: ISP Internet Accounts; title: Your Employer's Email System; title: Web Hosting Service Email Accounts; title: Free Web Mail Accounts; title: Freenets and Community Networks; title: Back Up Your Internet Access; title: Register Your Own Internet Domain; title: Obtain and Use "Evaporating" Email Addresses; title: Using the Right Email Client; title: What Makes a Good Email Client?; title: Easy to Learn and Use; title: Multiple Mail Accounts; title: Hierarchical Folders or Mailboxes; title: Binary Attachments; title: HTML and Plain-Text Mail; title: Protection Against "Spam Beacon" Image Downloads; title: Protection Against Scripts in HTML Messages; title: Imports Mail from Many Email Clients; title: Exports Mail to Standard Formats; title: Uses the Windows Address Book; title: User-Defined Message Filters; title: Easy Backup of Your Mailbase; title: Support for POP and IMAP Mailboxes; title: Cheap or Free; title: Not Too Popular; title: The Problem of Software Monoculture; title: POP or IMAP?; title: My Recommendations; title: Protocols: POP vs. IMAP; title: Protocols: Client Choices; title: Clients and Your Experience Level; title: Clients and the Nature of your Work; title: Summing Up-Have Client, Will Email!; title: Developing Good Email Habits; title: Sort Your Email: Keep, Hold, or Pitch?; title: Beware the Fold!; title: The 100-Message Rule; title: Prioritize Your Email with Email Notifiers; title: Notifiers: Your Silent Email Partner; title: POPTray: Free and Easy; title: Install POPTray; title: Create POPTray Rules for Critical Senders; title: Let POPTray Prioritize Your Mail; title: Back Up Your Email; title: Have an Email Backup Strategy; title: Find Your Mailbase; title: Backup Media; title: Use Backup Utility Software; title: Summing Up-The Habits of Highly Effective Emailers; title: Read and Degunk Your Email from Anywhere; title: Get Reliable Access to the Net and Your Mail Server; title: Understand the Port 25 Blocking Problem; title: Using the Local Network for Outbound Mail; title: Don't Fork Your Mailbase!; title: Leaving Mail on the Server; title: Synchronization and the "Holes Don't Travel" Problem; title: Traveling with IMAP; title: Traveling with Web Mail; title: POP Interfaces to Web Mail; title: Web Mail Interfaces to POP Accounts; title: Use a Client on a Key Chain: Poco EmailVoyager; title: Handing Off a Mailbase Between Poco Mail and EmailVoyager; title: Use Google's Gamil: "Deep Storage" Web Mail; title: Gmail and the Privacy Issue; title: Pop Goes the Gmail; title: Gmail Loader; title: Competitive Pressures; title: Summing Up-Traveling Smart; title: Cleaning and Organizing Your Mailbase; title: Understand the Two Faces of Mailbase Gunk; title: Create a Folder Hierarchy; title: Apply the Single-Screen Rule; title: Use Folders for Topics, not Senders; title: Keep Your Time-Delimited Mail in Separate Folders; title: Use Folders within Folders Carefully; title: Sort Your Email into Folders; title: Clean Your Attachments Folder; title: The Trouble with Attachments; title: File Extensions and File Types; title: Clean Up the Odds and Ends; title: Watch Out for Abandoned Drafts; title: Delete Obsolete or Duplicate Copies of Your Mailbase; title: Outlook's Mailbase and Windows Address Book; title: Remove Outlook Express Email Gunk from the Windows Registry; title: Editing the Registry with REGEDIT32; title: Email Spring Cleaning; title: Summing Up-Clean Me Now... or Clean Me Later!; title: Avoid Becoming a Spam Magnet!; title: Understand the Prime Directive Against Spam; title: Don't Buy from Spammers!; title: Don't Respond to Sneaky Spam Messages; title: Friends Don't Let Friends Buy from Spammers!; title: Why Is Stopping Spam So Hard?; title: Choose a Spam-Resistant Email Address; title: Avoid Dictionary Attacks; title: More Advice on Choosing an Email Address; title: Don't Hand Your Email Address to Spammers!; title: Never Post Your Email Address on the Web; title: Never Unsubscribe from a Spammer Mailing List; title: Check to See if Listservs ARe Archived to the Web; title: Obfuscate Your Email Address on Newsgroups and Discussion Boards; title: Use Disposable Email Addresses for E-Commerce; title: Don't Complain to a Spammer's ISP; title: Avoid Triggering Other People's Spam Filters; title: Summing Up-From Prevention to Cure; title: Understand the Spam Filtering Conundrum; title: Understand Spam Filtering Jargon; title: Develop a Good Spam-Fighting Philosophy; title: Love Your Address Book-and Use It!; title: Use Your Address Book as Your Whitelist; title: Use Content Filtering; title: Automatic or Manual Filtering?; title: Filtering on Sender Addresses and Domains; title: Is It a Spammer Domain?; title: Filtering on Key Words in the Subject; title: Filtering on Key Words or Domains in the Message Body; title: Watch Out for False Positives when Creating Filters!; title: Run Your Spam Filters in the Correct Order; title: "Inbox Thinning" with POPTray; title: Defining Spam Filters in POPTray; title: Deep-Clean Your Spam Using Bayesian Spam Filtering; title: Degunk Your Spam with Statistics; title: The Bayesian Regimen; title: The Bayesian Downside; title: Learn about POPFile; title: Why Is POPFile So Good?; title: Install POPFile; title: Selecting POPFile's Install-Time Buckets; title: Configuring Your Email Client to Use POPFile; title: What Happens When POPFile Checks Mail; title: Train and Use POPFile; title: Training POPFile; title: Setting Up a Spam Category Filter in Your Email Client; title: Use POPFile's Magnets; title: Creating Magnets in POPFile; title: Back Up and Share POPFile's Corpus Data; title: Finding the Corpus; title: "Borrowing" a Corpus; title: Use Outclass to Access POPFile from Outlook; title: Installing Outclass; title: Configuring and Using Outclass; title: More Outclass Training Tips; title: Using Safe View to Inspect Message Source Text; title: Avoid Spam Control Methods That Don't Work; title: Understand How Antispam Technologies Fail; title: Be Careful with Server-Side Spam Filtering; title: Watch Out for IP Black Holes; title: Malicious Spam Reporting and "Joe Jobs"; title: SpamCop; title: Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Spam Filtering; title: Challenge-Response Spam Blocking; title: Captchas: Riddle Me This to Email Me!; title: Whitelists Are Everything; title: Other Problems With C-R Email Systems; title: Why Spamming Should Not Be Illegal; title: Keep a Cool Head and Win the War; title: Protect Yourself Against Viruses, Trojans, and Worms; title: Develop a Malware Master Plan; title: Understand the PC Malware Bestiary; title: Malware; title: Viruses; title: Worms; title: Trojan Horses; title: Back Doors; title: Adware; title: Spyware; title: Social Engineering; title: Phishing; title: Hackers and Crackers and the Colors of Hats; title: Security Holes in Software; title: Where the Risks Are; title: Malware Defense: From a Height; title: Defeat Those Viruses; title: Understand What Viruses Are and What They Do; title: How You Contract PC Viruses; title: Watch Out for "Dangerous" Files and Their Extensions; title: Microsoft Office Files and File Extensions; title: Havoc from Hiding Windows File Extensions; title: How Viruses "Space-Shift Right" to Hide File Extensions; title: Disable Microsoft Office Macros; title: Macro Viruses in Office Add-Ins and Templates; title: Choose an Antivirus Utility; title: Using Software Reviews for Purchasing Decisions; title: What All Good Antivirus Utilities Should Have; title: Things to Watch Out For; title: Do You Need Multiple Antivirus Utilities?; title: What I Recommend; title: Using Trial Products; title: Installing a Typical Antivirus Product; title: Using a One-Off Virus Removal Utility; title: Summing Up-Use Good Virus Hygiene Daily; title: Avoid Adware, Spyware, and Browser Bugaboos; title: Adware vs. Spyware; title: The Two Kinds of Free; title: Know What You're Installing!; title: Good Adware/Spyware Research Sites; title: Use Anti-Spyware Software; title: Installing and Using Spybot Search & Destroy; title: Why Keep Adware?; title: Installing and Using Ad-Aware; title: Watch Out for Phony Spyware or Adware Removers; title: Implement an Adware/Spyware Strategy; title: Be Mindful of Browser Bugaboos; title: The Hazards of Internet Explorer; title: Drive-By Installs; title: Disabling Install On Demand in Internet Explorer; title: Beefing Up Security in the Internet Zone; title: Disabling Install on Demand in Mozilla Firefox; title: Block Pop-Ups!; title: Use Limited Windows Accounts for Web Surfing; title: Creating a Limited User Account in Windows; title: Fast User Switching in Windows XP; title: Summing Up-Peddlers Not Invited; title: Use Firewalls to Stop Those Worms; title: Understand That Worms Are Viruses with Legs; title: The Nature of Worm Gunk; title: Worms with a Mission; title: The Life Cycle of a Worm; title: Interfering with the Worm Life Cycle; title: Your Worm Defense Strategy; title: The Prime Directive in Worm Defense; title: Learn the Essentials about Firewalls; title: Using Software Firewalls; title: Using NAT Firewalls; title: Install and Use ZoneAlarm; title: Getting ZoneAlarm; title: Installing ZoneAlarm; title: Understanding ZoneAlarm Zones; title: Software Package Permissions; title: Deciding Whether to Grant or Deny; title: Install and Use the Linksys BEFSR41 Router; title: Installing the BEFSR41; title: MAC Address Authentication; title: Cloning Your MAC Address; title: Tricky: MAC Cloning on an Older Router; title: Summing Up-Turning Worms Away; title: Degunk Nigerian Rhapsodies, Hoaxes, and Other Smelly Phish; title: Degunk Those Viral Hoaxes; title: Social Engineering Viruses; title: So Why Are Harmless Social Engineering Viruses Wrong?; title: Avoid the Nigerian 419 Scams; title: Don't Be Victim to Identity Theft Because of Phishing Expeditions; title: The New Scourge of the Internet; title: Impersonating a Web Site; title: "Bait and Switch" Web Links; title: How Not to Get Hooked; title: Degunking After a Malware Attack; title: Understand the Five PC Defense Conditions; title: Was It Really Malware?; title: Is It Simply Plain Old Windows Gunk?; title: How to Handle DefCon 1