1. Don't reply to ANY unsolicited emails. Even unsubscribe will
alert the senders that your email address is being used.
2. Use your messaging software's filtering tools to reject mail
from your frequent spammers' email addresses or with certain
words (sex, for example) in the subject line.
3. Find out if your ISP has a spam blocking service. If not,
sign up for a third party spam-blocking service such as
Brightmail (www.brightmail.com/ ).
4. Contact the large directory services such as Bigfoot,
Infospace, Switchboard, Yahoo People Search, and WhoWhere, to
tell them you don't want to be listed.
5. Encrypt and digitally sign all you sensitive email messages.
If your messaging software doesn't support robust encryption,
download PGP Freeware encryption software
(
http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html ) and use that.
6. Use WinZip (www.winzip.com/ ) software to compress and password
protect your attachments.
7. To avoid cookies sent via email, use email client software,
such as Eudora Pro, that lets you shut off its automatic Web
Browser rendering engine.
8. Don't read email on a machine that doesn't belong to you or
someone you trust. If you use a browser to read email on someone
else's machine, use the browser's Clear History tool when you
finish to prevent subsequent users from getting into your
mailbox.
9. Don't send sensitive personal messages on your work machine.
10. Keep your antiviral software updated at all times.
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