Anti-Spam Tools
Tracking Tools
| You've read about how to trace spammers, but you haven't the tools to do it. Now, you do. | |
| Spammers use a lot of tricks to obfuscate or hide their content, to frustrate efforts to trace them down. Luckily, you can often decode their efforts with the minimum of your own. | |
| If you want to report spam in volume, and really can't do it yourself, there are a few tools that do this with varying degrees of success. |
Testing Tools
| DNS Blackhole Lists are an easily accessible way to make decisions on which email to reject. If you want to know if an IP is listed, you can either check them directly over DNS, or use a service that checks them for you. Stay calm. | |
| Open relays are mail servers that can be abused to send spam. You don't want one. | |
| You really don't want an open proxy; spam is the least but most visible of your worries. |
Administrator Tools
| If you want to serve up your blocklist to the world, or just your little part of it, you'll be helped enormously by these tools. | |
| Catch the spammers illegally hijacking your resources. | |
| Prevent spammers on your network sending out spam. | |
| Tools to handle the valuable abuse reports that come in to your network. |
Anti-Spambot Tools
| Stop spambots harvesting addresses from your websites. |
Anti-Phishing Tools
| Toolbars for Internet Explorer and Firefox can help distinguish between fake phishing sites and real banking sites. | |
| Simple web-based techniques can be used by companies to give assurance to customers that they are on the right website. |
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