Yahoo Anti Virus

A malicious virus can bring your computer to a standstill (or worse). Much worse. That's why Yahoo! is constantly on the lookout for new viruses and ways to stop them.*

Yahoo! Mail automatically scans all incoming and outgoing email attachments for known viruses. Yahoo uses industry-leading Norton AntiVirus software, so you don't have to do a thing.


Download the attachment and wait for that reassuring message "No Virus Threat Detected." If a virus is detected, it will be cleaned if possible, and you'll be given further instructions.

* Remember, not all viruses can be detected and cleaned.

There's a risk involved whenever you download email attachments to your computer or send email attachments to others. As stated in our Terms of Service, neither Yahoo! nor its licensors are responsible for any damages caused by your decision to download email attachments.

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Send SMS From Gmail

Gmail Labs has been introducing features left and right, and this time they have come up with a really useful functionality that will allow you to send and receive SMS text messages from within your Gmail account in Chat.


To activate the chat feature go to Settings -> Labs and activate text messaging in chat.


Once you have activate the SMS feature you can send a SMS to any of your contacts by clicking on the options in a chat window.


Once you click on the send SMS option you will see a new option pop-up where you can enter the phone number where you want to send the SMS message to.


You basically receive two SMS message the first time, the first telling you about the service and the second that contains the actual message.


This is a real great feature to contact people when they are not online, however this service is only available in US right now.


Note: Regular SMS rates may apply.

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Removing Spam (Gmail)

To remove spam from your inbox:

Select the unwanted messages.

Click Report Spam .

To remove spam forever:

Click Spam along the left side of any Gmail page.

Select the messages you'd like to delete and click Delete forever .

Or delete everything by clicking Delete all spam messages now .

The more spam you mark, the better our system will get at weeding out those annoying messages. If you or we should happen to goof and mark a good message as spam, click Not Spam at the top of the message. If you marked it as spam, you can also click Undo immediately after to recover the message.

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Scanning Virus and Virus Cleaning

Virus scanning is the process of checking files to see if they contain known viruses. Virus cleaning is the process of removing the detected virus from the file so that the file can be used safely.

Using Norton AntiVirus, Yahoo! Mail scans and cleans all your attachments for free. However, this only protects you from viruses sent to your Yahoo! Mail account. For protection from other types of viruses, such as those you may inadvertently download when visiting non-Yahoo! web sites, we recommend installing anti- virus software on every computer you use.

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Prevent Spam in Yahoo

Yahoo's committed to eliminating spam-eyuck! And you've got great tools to help keep spam out of your Inbox.

Yahoo! SpamGuard

Keep Yahoo! SpamGuard turned on. To check if it's on:

Click Options in the upper- right corner of your Mail page and select Mail Options.

Click Spam Protection from the list on the left.

In the "Spam Filter" section, do you see "SpamGuard is ON"? If not, turn it on by clicking the link: Turn SpamGuard ON.

Click Save Changes.

In this same section, you can also specify how often you'd like us to empty your Spam folder (we do it automatically once a month, but you have options to empty it faster), as well as indicating your preference for showing-or blocking-images. Image blocking is another way to fend off spam!


Image Blocking

Image blocking defeats the confirmation "hits" that spammers receive whenever one of their images is viewed. Since a "view" can include the moment you click to open a spam message, selecting "Initially block all images" is your safest choice. Here's how to do it:

Click Options in the upper- right corner of your Mail page and select Mail Options.

Under Spam, click Spam Protection.

At the bottom of the page is the "Image Blocking" section. You'll see three choices with three radio buttons. Select (click inside) the one that sounds right to you:

Always show images, except in Spam folder
Show images only from my contacts and certified senders
Initially block all images

The Spam button

If you get a spam message in your Inbox, check the box beside it, then click Spam. This alerts us to the latest tricks and techniques that spammers are using, and helps us clamp down tighter and fight spam more effectively.


If you change your mind or think you made a mistake, just look for the next message from that sender in your Spam folder and click Not Spam to reverse your vote.

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Spam Guard (Yahoo)

What is it anyway?

A new, wider type of spatula to flip huge burgers with? (Ber-slap!) A no-stick bedliner for your pickup? Nah - SpamGuard funnels spam email away from your Inbox and into to your Spam folder.

Control SpamGuard

It's automatically activated in your account (see the check in the box?) and it generates a Spam folder when you receive your first spam message - which sometimes doesn't happen for months!
Empty Spam folder
How long do you want to keep messages in your Spam folder? You can choose from the "Empty Spam folder:" pull- down menu. Delete messages immediately, or keep them one week, two weeks, or a month. The default setting is a month. Remember, choosing "immediately" means you won't have an opportunity to review what's in your Spam folder before it's deleted.

Show incoming images?

Getting you to open images in emails is a spammer trick that confirms your email address to them. So we give you a way to block anonymous images from being displayed - at the level you prefer. We recommend "Initially block all images".

Not Spam

Every now and then - but rarely - SpamGuard edges over the line and places an email you actually wanted to receive into your Spam folder. If this happens, let us know. It gets smarter that way! Click Not Spam while viewing the message in your Spam folder.

And finally...

As you might guess, the Spam folder doesn't generate spam, nor will you receive any additional mail as a result of having a Spam folder.

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Spam Spam Spam. What Is Spam?

Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. Spam costs the sender very little to send -- most of the costs are paid for by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender.

There are two main types of spam, and they have different effects on Internet users. Cancellable Usenet spam is a single message sent to 20 or more Usenet newsgroups. (Through long experience, Usenet users have found that any message posted to so many newsgroups is often not relevant to most or all of them.) Usenet spam is aimed at "lurkers", people who read newsgroups but rarely or never post and give their address away. Usenet spam robs users of the utility of the newsgroups by overwhelming them with a barrage of advertising or other irrelevant posts. Furthermore, Usenet spam subverts the ability of system administrators and owners to manage the topics they accept on their systems.
Email spam targets individual users with direct mail messages. Email spam lists are often created by scanning Usenet postings, stealing Internet mailing lists, or searching the Web for addresses. Email spams typically cost users money out- of-pocket to receive. Many people - anyone with measured phone service - read or receive their mail while the meter is running, so to speak. Spam costs them additional money. On top of that, it costs money for ISPs and online services to transmit spam, and these costs are transmitted directly to subscribers.

One particularly nasty variant of email spam is sending spam to mailing lists (public or private email discussion forums.) Because many mailing lists limit activity to their subscribers, spammers will use automated tools to subscribe to as many mailing lists as possible, so that they can grab the lists of addresses, or use the mailing list as a direct target for their attacks.

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