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Spam Wars: Our Last Best Chance to Defeat Spammers, Scammers & Hackers (Paperback)

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Spammers, scammers, and hackers are destroying electronic mail. The email inbox that once excited you with messages from friends, family, and business prospects now causes outright dread and rage. With unsolicited and unwelcome email accounting for as much as 80% of the world's email traffic, it's time for all email users to act to turn the tide in this epic battle for their privacy and sanity.

Spam Wars, veteran, award-winning technology interpreter, Danny Goodman, exposes the often criminal tricks that spammers, scammers, and hackers play on the email system, even with the wariest of users. He also explains why the latest anti-spam technologies and laws can't do the whole job. Spam Wars provides the readers with the additional insight, not only to protect themselves from attack, but more importantly to help choke off the economies that power today's time-wasting email floods.

Spam Wars puts to rest many popular misconceptions and myths about email, while giving readers the knowledge that email attackers don't want you to have. Danny Goodman's crystal-clear writing can turn any email user into a well-armed spam warrior.

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Author and technology guru Danny Goodman has over 2 million books in print, including best-sellers The Complete HyperCard Handbook, with 650,000 copies in print (Bantam); JavaScript Bible, with one half million copies in print (Wiley); and Dynamic HTML, with over 100,000 copies (O’Reilly).

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Paperback: 330 pages
Publisher: Select Books (NY) (November 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590790634
ISBN-13: 978-1590790632
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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antispam activists, junk tags, bulk emailers, incoming email server, spam fighters, spam activity, spam traps, spam reporting, cable broadband provider, inbox listing, other spammers, spam reports, spam recipients, spam offer, antispam laws, email marketers, source code view, address harvesting, trap addresses, spam sources, bounce messages, suspected spam, unsubscribe links, incoming server, spam message

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United States, New York, Federal Trade Commission, Header Trick, United Kingdom, Cyber Promotions, Do-Not-Email Registry, Aunt Flo, Direct Marketing Association, Windows Update, Delta Seven, Domain Name Service, Grasping Spam, America Online, Danny Gonzales, European Union, Its the Spanonomy, Ray Tomlinson, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, The Spamhaus Project

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5.0 out of 5 stars You Are Obligated To Enlist! , December 16, 2004

By	Fred Showker "DTG Magazine" (The Design Bookshelf) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

SPAM WARS, like many other wars we've known seem to go on and on with no apparent ending or resolution. You'll notice those other "spam" books suggested up there. I've read them too. And I've promoted them through AACUG, the User Group Network and the Design Bookshelf web sites. I've quoted them in the AACUG's Anti-Spam initiative. But this is probably the most important book about the genre -- the level-headed, common sense book about spam -- how to avoid it and fight it.

Danny Goodman helped millions of us become proficient computer users, and hyperscript programmers at the dawn of the desktop computing revolution. His level grasp of concepts coupled with his friendly manner made the world of computing understandable and comfortable. Now, he's taken up the torch to arm us and help us safely through the SPAM WARS.

This book does the best job I've seen to date on actually putting a finger on what spam is, who the spammers are, how they operate and what you can stand to lose if they get you in their grasp. Yea, I know -- you're going to say you've heard it all before. I thought I had heard it all before too. But Danny's presentation is very different from all the web sites and books on the topic. You really haven't heard it in the clear, understandable fashion presented in SPAM WARS.

Targeting the beginner, the uninitiated, and even a few of us 'old dogs', Danny walks the reader through the entire spectrum of spam. He covers the Government and Legislation. He addresses phishing, stalking, predators, zombies, and all the other evil tricks the denisons of the slime pits of spam employ to breach your walls. He guides you to understand how they work, what their goals are and how you can keep them from stealing, defrauding, misleading, and damaging you, your family and your loved ones. "Know Thy Enemy"

But this book is really not about spam fighting as popularized online. It's an education which imparts the knowledge necessary to effectively keep spam from harming you. Think of it as self-defense.

More importantly it's a call to the aid of your community -- learn the techniques of disarming the spammers at their very roots -- share that knowledge with every other computer user you know. Help those who are clueless, uneducated and at risk -- to understand how to guard themselves against the spam attack.

Danny shows you how to recognize it, how to handle it, and how to go after the spammer's most vulnerable spots.

You are now enlisted in the SPAM WARS. Here is your arsenal of weapons. Read it, learn it, act upon it, and then GIVE IT to your neighbor. Go out there and make us all proud.

Fred Showker
www.Design-Bookshelf.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars A computer book for the twenty-first century, March 7, 2005

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Spam Wars is truly a computer book for the twenty-first century. Award-winning technology interpreter Danny Goodman teaches readers Spam 101 followed by an intermediate course in Spam, including how to recognize spam, the importance of firewalls, spam, virus, spyware and malware filters that should be installed on every computer, and much more. In a day and age where the worst possible spam can lead to identity theft and worse, Spam Wars is much-needed reading for every small business and household that relies heavily upon computers and the internet. The basics for protecting oneself from attack are presented in plain terms that even the technologically clueless can quickly grasp, and special attention is given to the exploitable flaws in Microsoft Windows and the Outlook email program. Highly recommended.

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4.0 out of 5 stars the spammer maggots are gorging, February 7, 2005

By	W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Goodman writes mostly for the nontechnical email user, about the scourge of spam. He gives a very readable description of how email grew since 1969. Alas, as he points out, those were innocent days, when social pressure amongst the few academic users sufficed to restrict anything like spam. And besides, the audience was too small for spam to be economic.

But now with millions of users, spammers have great incentive to spam. The book takes you through nice descriptions of various spammer tricks. Also discussed are the main antispam ideas, like Bayesians, challenge response and blacklists. The conclusion is sobering. Goodman is unaware of any solution to this open wound. The spammer maggots continue to gorge themselves on the Internet.

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