Wednesday, May 31, 2006
STOP SPAM BEFORE IT GETS STARTED
NEW "DISGUISE KIT" PROTECTS WEB IDENTITIES AND ADDRESSES TO STOP SPAM BEFORE IT GETS STARTED.
Site owners and webmasters overwhelmed by spam messages find relief with Link Disguiser, a professional technology solution from Logic Software that prevents email address harvesting on websites so spam messages have nowhere to go
Toronto, Canada - "Webmasters complain that they're drowning in an ocean of spam, but don't realize that their websites are fertile ground for email harvesting," says security software expert Vadim Katcherovski. "One spammer with just one computer can generate as many as 650,000 messages each hour and all he needs to do to capture website addresses is send out a spam bot."
Katcherovski is the CEO of Logic Software Inc, a rapidly growing custom development and software outsourcing company with headquarters in Toronto, Canada. He is among a growing number of technology professionals focused on combating what he calls "the scourge of spam" and the visionary leader of the team that created Link Disguisers.
Link Disguisers is a technology solution designed to help webmasters protect their sites and their contact information from roving email harvesters. Link Disguiser provides webmasters with a bullet-proof anti-spam protection and a powerful toolkit for quick and easy email address concealment.
How It Works
"A robot, also known as an email harvester, searches the web looking for valid email addresses," explains Katcherovski. Some address harvesters are completely benign, seeking information to compile website address directories.
Less benign are the robots that are used by spammers to build their mailing lists. "Spammers have developed robot programs that can spider through web pages, looking for email addresses," explains Katcherovski.
The robots latch onto email addresses contained in mailto: HTML tags. "It's easy for the bots to spot the address "and capture it," adds Katcherovski.
Staggering Under the Cost of Spam and Spam Clean Up
It's not unusual for webmasters, sales people, the technical support staff, and the marketing department to receive hundreds spam mails in a single day. "More than 2 million unwanted commercial email messages are sent every 24 hours and that onslaught is costing U.S. corporations upwards of $8.9 billion dollars a year," says Katcherovski, referring to a study by Ferris Research.
According to predictions from the Radicati Group, by 2007, if no significant changes are made in email laws, 70% of all messages will be spam. "Legislators seem unable or unwilling to stem the tide of spam," notes Katcherovski. "That means businesses need to tend to their own problems."
Developer Heal Thyself
"We know from experience what it takes to clean up suspicious and unwanted email every day," says Katcherovski. "When Logic Software Inc. went online, it didn't take long for a tsunami of spam emails to start flooding us." The company knew it had to address the problem and created Link Disguiser as a solution.
To block sneaky spam bots, the Link Disguiser program allows webmasters to convert text-written email address into an image, "disguise" email address in a href tag, encode the "mailto:" tag with JavaScript, and automatically integrate anti-spam protection into selected pages (single or multiple) in Batch Mode. "Link Disguiser allows you to generate code with anti-spam protection and then customize it for your own needs," explains Katcherovski.
Cutting Off The Supply of Addresses
"Spammers have a tremendous financial incentive to stay one step ahead of anti-spam technology, so they do," says Katcherovski."And that means even the best solutions allow some spam in or they block a valid email." He notes that Link Disguiser foils spam at the source. The program prevents an email address from getting into the hands of spammers in the first place.
According to the U.N.'s International Telecommunications the actual costs of cleaning spam -- rebooting computers and peripherals, productivity loss etcetera - may be costing companies up to four times that amount. According to Nucleus Research, companies currently lose an average of 1.4% of each employee's productivity each year because of spam. "That means that for every 72 employees a company has, the annual work output of at least one employee is lost entirely to spam," says Katcherovski.
Simply put, "Spam is bad for the bottom line," says Katcherovski. "Companies that don't have good anti-spam protection will end up spending a lot of time, money, and man-hours to purge their in-boxes manually." He believes the smart solution is to "invest a small amount of money on a dynamic, customizable tool like Link Disguiser," a proven solution software priced at less than $30.
"It's affordable and it works more effectively than simple anti-spam software," says Kathcerovski. "Link Disguiser stops the flood of unsolicited messages before it begins by keeping your email address hidden from spammers."
For more information or to order Link Disguiser, visit www.linkdisguiser.com.
About Logic Software Inc.
Logic Software, Inc. is an innovative custom software development company based in Toronto. Logic Software has delivered hundreds of cost effective and high-quality software solutions for a wide range of industries and domains, including Link Disguiser, a professional anti-spam solution that foils the attempts of spam bots to harvest email addresses from web site.
Site owners and webmasters overwhelmed by spam messages find relief with Link Disguiser, a professional technology solution from Logic Software that prevents email address harvesting on websites so spam messages have nowhere to go
Toronto, Canada - "Webmasters complain that they're drowning in an ocean of spam, but don't realize that their websites are fertile ground for email harvesting," says security software expert Vadim Katcherovski. "One spammer with just one computer can generate as many as 650,000 messages each hour and all he needs to do to capture website addresses is send out a spam bot."
Katcherovski is the CEO of Logic Software Inc, a rapidly growing custom development and software outsourcing company with headquarters in Toronto, Canada. He is among a growing number of technology professionals focused on combating what he calls "the scourge of spam" and the visionary leader of the team that created Link Disguisers.
Link Disguisers is a technology solution designed to help webmasters protect their sites and their contact information from roving email harvesters. Link Disguiser provides webmasters with a bullet-proof anti-spam protection and a powerful toolkit for quick and easy email address concealment.
How It Works
"A robot, also known as an email harvester, searches the web looking for valid email addresses," explains Katcherovski. Some address harvesters are completely benign, seeking information to compile website address directories.
Less benign are the robots that are used by spammers to build their mailing lists. "Spammers have developed robot programs that can spider through web pages, looking for email addresses," explains Katcherovski.
The robots latch onto email addresses contained in mailto: HTML tags. "It's easy for the bots to spot the address "and capture it," adds Katcherovski.
Staggering Under the Cost of Spam and Spam Clean Up
It's not unusual for webmasters, sales people, the technical support staff, and the marketing department to receive hundreds spam mails in a single day. "More than 2 million unwanted commercial email messages are sent every 24 hours and that onslaught is costing U.S. corporations upwards of $8.9 billion dollars a year," says Katcherovski, referring to a study by Ferris Research.
According to predictions from the Radicati Group, by 2007, if no significant changes are made in email laws, 70% of all messages will be spam. "Legislators seem unable or unwilling to stem the tide of spam," notes Katcherovski. "That means businesses need to tend to their own problems."
Developer Heal Thyself
"We know from experience what it takes to clean up suspicious and unwanted email every day," says Katcherovski. "When Logic Software Inc. went online, it didn't take long for a tsunami of spam emails to start flooding us." The company knew it had to address the problem and created Link Disguiser as a solution.
To block sneaky spam bots, the Link Disguiser program allows webmasters to convert text-written email address into an image, "disguise" email address in a href tag, encode the "mailto:" tag with JavaScript, and automatically integrate anti-spam protection into selected pages (single or multiple) in Batch Mode. "Link Disguiser allows you to generate code with anti-spam protection and then customize it for your own needs," explains Katcherovski.
Cutting Off The Supply of Addresses
"Spammers have a tremendous financial incentive to stay one step ahead of anti-spam technology, so they do," says Katcherovski."And that means even the best solutions allow some spam in or they block a valid email." He notes that Link Disguiser foils spam at the source. The program prevents an email address from getting into the hands of spammers in the first place.
According to the U.N.'s International Telecommunications the actual costs of cleaning spam -- rebooting computers and peripherals, productivity loss etcetera - may be costing companies up to four times that amount. According to Nucleus Research, companies currently lose an average of 1.4% of each employee's productivity each year because of spam. "That means that for every 72 employees a company has, the annual work output of at least one employee is lost entirely to spam," says Katcherovski.
Simply put, "Spam is bad for the bottom line," says Katcherovski. "Companies that don't have good anti-spam protection will end up spending a lot of time, money, and man-hours to purge their in-boxes manually." He believes the smart solution is to "invest a small amount of money on a dynamic, customizable tool like Link Disguiser," a proven solution software priced at less than $30.
"It's affordable and it works more effectively than simple anti-spam software," says Kathcerovski. "Link Disguiser stops the flood of unsolicited messages before it begins by keeping your email address hidden from spammers."
For more information or to order Link Disguiser, visit www.linkdisguiser.com.
About Logic Software Inc.
Logic Software, Inc. is an innovative custom software development company based in Toronto. Logic Software has delivered hundreds of cost effective and high-quality software solutions for a wide range of industries and domains, including Link Disguiser, a professional anti-spam solution that foils the attempts of spam bots to harvest email addresses from web site.
Support the Carter Center
Memorial Fundraiser: Buy a game and support the Carter Center
May 31th, 2006 - In honor of Memorial Day, Sillysoft Games (www.sillysoft.net) is holding a charity fundraiser. 100 percent of the proceeds from the computer game American History Lux from now until Friday, June 2nd will be donated to charity. Specifically to the Carter Center (www.cartercenter.org), which seeks to "wage peace, fight disease, and build hope."
American History Lux is a new strategy game that takes players through the history of the ten wars that have most shaped America. Each war comes as a map containing the real geographical layout marking the important cities, forts, and regions of the conflict. It's available to download now for PC, Macintosh, and Linux.
"It's easy to gloss over the harsh reality of conflict when playing a computer war game. Sillysoft feels a responsibility to give something back in honor of the men and women who have fought and died to bring us the liberties that we take for granted every day," said Sillysoft President Dustin Quasar Sacks. "This charity fundraiser is a great way for people to donate to a good cause and get a fun game that will teach them some history at the same time."
Sillysoft has set up a special Memorial Day webpage with information on the charity sale, and where the final amount raised will be posted.
http://sillysoft.net/ahl/memorial/
General American History Lux information:
http://sillysoft.net/ahl/
About Sillysoft Games:
Sillysoft Games is an independent computer game developer dedicated to producing addictive strategy games. Their first game, Lux Delux, was a finalist at the Independent Games Festival in 2005 and has become a cult hit online. Their newest game American History Lux was released in April 2006.
May 31th, 2006 - In honor of Memorial Day, Sillysoft Games (www.sillysoft.net) is holding a charity fundraiser. 100 percent of the proceeds from the computer game American History Lux from now until Friday, June 2nd will be donated to charity. Specifically to the Carter Center (www.cartercenter.org), which seeks to "wage peace, fight disease, and build hope."
American History Lux is a new strategy game that takes players through the history of the ten wars that have most shaped America. Each war comes as a map containing the real geographical layout marking the important cities, forts, and regions of the conflict. It's available to download now for PC, Macintosh, and Linux.
"It's easy to gloss over the harsh reality of conflict when playing a computer war game. Sillysoft feels a responsibility to give something back in honor of the men and women who have fought and died to bring us the liberties that we take for granted every day," said Sillysoft President Dustin Quasar Sacks. "This charity fundraiser is a great way for people to donate to a good cause and get a fun game that will teach them some history at the same time."
Sillysoft has set up a special Memorial Day webpage with information on the charity sale, and where the final amount raised will be posted.
http://sillysoft.net/ahl/memorial/
General American History Lux information:
http://sillysoft.net/ahl/
About Sillysoft Games:
Sillysoft Games is an independent computer game developer dedicated to producing addictive strategy games. Their first game, Lux Delux, was a finalist at the Independent Games Festival in 2005 and has become a cult hit online. Their newest game American History Lux was released in April 2006.
