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Katrina aftermath: Beware of e-looters

Looters are going outside the streets of New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina's hardest-hit US city, and setting up shop on the Internet where potential prey abounds. E-looters are using known methods such as phishing and spam e-mail, but hiding them under Katrina's cloak to rip off unsuspecting victims.

analyst, Forrester Research

In dealing with spam, that flood of unwanted and unsolicited e-mail that can sometimes clog in-boxes, there are only three basic ways of tackling the problem, even though one is unrealistic. The unrealistic one is not having e-mail at all; no e-mail address, no spam. Since that is not an option, the two other options are to tackle the problem in-house or to find an outsourced anti-spam solution. Both are excellent means of controlling spam but the decision to go with one or the other will be based on considerations that have little to do with the spam e-mails themselves.

CWC

2002 was certainly an interesting year in IT.

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