Comments on: Security Choices, Part 4: Complementary Security Software

By: Tomi

Tomi — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:13:04 +0000

Hello, Im from Poland, i’ve your program Agitum, legal version Outpost Firewall Pro ver. 4.0.1025.7828 (700) with NOD32. Agitum is very good firewall. In 2007 & 2008 year my computer heaven’t viruses. Sorry my english. See you, Tom S.

By: Jose

Jose — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:42:10 +0000

I have also stopped bouncing spam e-mails. I think when spammers receive a bounced e-mail they send a flood of spam to that e-mail address. Also, even though I mark the e-mail as spam, the spammer’s e-mail address is bogus…randomly made up address. These spammers are experts at what they do and I only wish there is a way to stop them or at least the stop spam e-mails.

By: Luis Leon Q.

Luis Leon Q. — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:39:09 +0000

I am pleased with your Agnitum Firewall Program, it works perfectly, great¡

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:31:24 +0000

Forget spam bouncing, most of the spam these days is just botpuke, often with a forged sender address of one of the poor so and so’s on the spam list. Bouncing just adds to the pollution.

Many browsers have antiphishing, though antiphishing also has potential spy/privacy implications of it’s own, as it means the antiphisher gets your full browsing history, with serious privacy implications.

The Phorm/Webwise fury, where certain ISPs are proposing an intercept deal, where Phorm provide antiphishing but also targeted advertising based on the entire broswing history intercept, is a case in point. Users that understand the trade-off, are up in arms.

By: TXpatriot

TXpatriot — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:59:50 +0000

The best anti-phishing tool, and best browser security tool is the Opera browser In my humble opinion,it can’t be beat.

For controlling spam, I use MailWasher, which checks emails on the server. You can then blacklist, or whitelist each email, as well as set up filters. You can delete the garbage (even bounce it back if you want), BEFORE you download anything.

By: JOAN ALBERT

JOAN ALBERT — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:37:24 +0000

Excellent remarks
I have a good experience with the Spamfighter that stop the spam for microsoft Outlook and it is free.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:12:29 +0000

I do well in this one as my browser stops all the above. But monitoring the emails of a friend who had no protection, over a hundred a day of all sorts of spam and certainly phishing was extensive and practically all banks that I know the names of turned up looking for updating details.
A key point with them was that they never had the name, it was always dear “…..bank customer” and always pressured that some desparate reason required the update.
2 examples,
(1) we have noticed fraudulent attempts on your account so we need to update…
And(2) we are installing new online software and all out customers will have to update or lose their account details.

By: Aaron Wakling

Aaron Wakling — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:00:04 +0000

Good Blog. I will continue reading it in the future. Nice layout too.

Aaron Wakling