Microsoft has announced that its updated version of Internet Explorer will feature an ad pop-up blocker. I wonder how it will compare toGoogle’s.
Technology
Hope for the rest of us
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Email
Did you ever wish you could report that wily Nigerian scammer to the police? One person did, and it turns out the Nigerian was a Canadian…
Update: Alas, we spoke too soon. Prosecutors have decided to drop charges against the alleged scammer.
Search without opening a browser
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software
If you can’t wait to open a browser to conduct an Internet search, Google feels your pain. Yesterday it introduced the Google Deskbar, which installs on your taskbar, allowing you to enter searches at the desktop level.
Too strong for its own good
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines, Software
The New York Times profiled the Google Toolbar yesterday, specifically discussing the utility’s pop-up blocker and its apparent super-strength. The article is right — the pop-up blocker is very strong, blocking nearly 100% of the popups I have encountered. In fact, the tracker tells me I have blocked 4,028 pop-ups since I installed the toolbar…
A helping hand to fight spam
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Email
Chances are your ISP is increasing its anti-spam efforts, to keep junk mail out of your inbox. I’m generally in favor anything that’s done to fight spam, but I’m just not sure about a solution at the ISP level. The technology is just not good enough yet that “false positives” (legitimate mail that is…
A giant booster shot for your PC
By Tom Mighell on
Microsoft has combined 22 of its critical updates into one combined download, called the Update Rollup 1 for Windows XP. You can download it here. If you keep up with Windows Update, you’re in good shape. But if any of you have missed even one of Microsoft’s critical updates, download this file.
A new telephone directory
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software
Gary Price has a nice review of the new phone and e-mail directory, Argali White & Yellow. Unlike most directories, Argali is a freedownloadable program, that accesses the Internet from your computer. I downloaded it this morning — I’ll let you know how I like it.
Tips to fight spam
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Email
It’s never a bad time for another tutorial on fighting spam.
A new strategy — finding the good guys
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Email
The software used to fight spam most often focuses on ways to identify junk e-mail and filter it from your Inbox. The spammers are usually able to keep one step ahead of these efforts. Now the anti-spam forces are trying out a reverse elimination process: find spam by concentrating on legitimate e-mail.
Spam enablers
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Email
Anti-spammers traditionally use tools like traceroute and whois to locate the IP address of the computer spammers are using. Now some hackers are helping the spammers — by developing “invisible bulletproof hosting” that protects a network from such sleuthing tools.