I really believe Email Software developers do not understand the most important requirement of good email software.. managing spam and junk emails! I recently purchased a new software program to manage my emails. After 20+ years of watching Microsoft’s OUTLOOK descend into an unusable, unwieldy, time-wasting exercise, it was time for a change. Introducing Mailbird […]
Stop, Breathe and Think before Clicking
Shoppers must “think” before they click as fraudsters come out in force during sales like Frenzy, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Boxing Day. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s deputy chair Delia Rickard has warned consumers “to stop, breathe and think before clicking on things” . “Shoppers are time poor and we don’t think as much […]
Spam Emails: trаnsfer 0.5 bitcоins
Has anyone else received “trаnsfer 0.5 bitcоins” message over the past few days (August-September 2018)? We’re receiving 100 an hour. To make matters worse, setting up a rule to deal with them doesn’t work. First I tried: “bitcоins” and then “0.5 bitcоins” but the rule does not remove all the messages. Any suggestions? From: MiguelGyday […]
Spam Emails: No Senders Email Address
The latest bout of spam emails flooding in is proving to be very difficult to combat. The usual practice of using rules to manage them is more time consuming than deleting them one by one. SPAMfighter is not dealing with them. The issue is that each message has a different: Senders name Senders email address […]
How To Block Senders Name: Outlook
Yes, me again, raving on about how to deal with spam emails. Today I have good news. I get hundreds emails every day that are spam often from the same name. One of the issues that filters have trouble dealing with is spammers that use one name but different sending email addresses. Now, I have […]
Spam Idea: Outsmarting Spammers
I’ve got an idea how to automate moving spam from the inbox direct to the delete folder: I operate a publishing company with multiple email addresses. Every day, spam messages flood in with the “same” spam message going to multiple email addresses. Doesn’t this mean, this is a way of identifying spam> Isn’t this an […]
LastPass = Fail & Pass
FINALLY.. the end for LastPass! After repeated complaints, each time with LastPass blaming Chrome for its issues, I’d had enough. April 2023 = Get RoboForm After years of bitching and complaining about LastPass, I bit the bullet, downloaded and installed RoboForm.. and wished I had done it years ago. Purchase and learn more about RoboForm www.roboform.com […]
Ransomware – What Is It & How To Remove
Ransomware is a particularly invasive form of malware that takes a victim’s data or device and holds it hostage (or displays bogus claims of illegal activity, porn usage or suggests that a system is already infected with viruses) until a sum of money is handed over in order to secure its release. While ransomware has […]
Bank Scam Emails
Lets start this with a simple warning.. Your bank will never email you about security.. NEVER, ever, won’t, ever, never!!! Do you understand? Your bank will not email you about anything to do with logging in… ever! If you log in from an email, you are STUPID! Sorry, I mean’t to say, if you login […]
Spam, spam everywhere spam!
The song went signs, signs, everywhere signs, I think it was in the late 60’s or early 70,s, but in 2013, the song would be rewritten.. Spam, spam everywhere spam It doesn’t seem to matter what I do, I am faced with an ever growing inbox full of emails from people and companies I’ve never […]