Casper Manes | Anti spam and general email security in a business environment

About Casper Manes

I currently work as a Senior Messaging Consultant for one of the premier consulting firms in the world, I cut my teeth on Exchange 5.0, and have worked with every version of Microsoft’s awesome email package since then, as well as MHS, Sendmail, and MailEnable systems. I've written dozens of articles on behalf of my past employers, their partners, and others, and I finally decided to embrace blogging and social media, so please follow me on Twitter @caspermanes if you enjoy my posts.

Let’s Talk About Spam – Identifying Suspicious Links

Written by Casper Manes on May 21, 2012

Welcome back to the next in our series on talking to regular people about spam. In today’s post we are going to talk about how to identify suspicious links. Links are intended to open your web browser to view a …

Let’s Talk About Spam – Identifying Suspicious Links

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Let’s Talk About Spam – FUD

Written by Casper Manes on May 15, 2012

Welcome back to another in our series of articles on talking about spam. I have to apologize for this one, since in the title I broke one of the cardinal rules I set for this series; I used a technical …

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Let’s Talk About Spam – The Worst Offenders

Written by Casper Manes on May 11, 2012

In today’s post, we’re going to take a look at some actual spam messages to help you get a feel for what spam looks like. We’ll point out some of the obvious characteristics, as well as some of the more …

Let’s Talk About Spam – The Worst Offenders

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Let’s Talk About Spam – How to Identify Spam

Written by Casper Manes on May 1, 2012

Welcome to the fourth post in our Let’s Talk About Spam series. Today, let’s go over how to identify spam. Technical folks can smell it from a mile away, and can usually spot a spam message by its subject line, …

Let’s Talk About Spam – How to Identify Spam

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Let’s Talk About Spam – Why Should I Care?

Written by Casper Manes on April 26, 2012

One of the problems many people have when dealing with spam, phishing, and malware, is that they don’t really understand why they should care. Spam seems like a problem for companies to deal with, and not something an individual should …

Let’s Talk About Spam – Why Should I Care?

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Let’s Talk About Spam – Spam, Phishing and Malware

Written by Casper Manes on April 19, 2012

Spam, phishing, and malware. Oh my! Welcome to the first in a series of articles here at the AllSpammedUp.com designed to help IT admins, and the non-technical people they care about, deal with one of the biggest challenges every user …

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Let’s Talk About Spam

Written by Casper Manes on April 13, 2012

Hello ASU readers! You asked for it, you’ve got it. Following on the heels of our Spamfighting Bootcamp series, we’re going to kick off a new series of posts on spam and how to talk to friends, family and coworkers …

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Spamfighting Bootcamp Week 9: Good To Go

Written by Casper Manes on April 5, 2012

Well good morning recruits. Recruits? No, that’s not right. You’re not recruits anymore. You’re lean, mean, spamfighting machines! For the past nine weeks you’ve been trained, educated, molded, and formed. You now have the knowledge, the skills, mental skills, and intestinal …

Spamfighting Bootcamp Week 9: Good To Go

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Out there, beyond that firewall, every living thing that crawls, flies, or squats in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes for jujubes. We have an indigenous population of humanoids called spammers. They’re fond of emails full …

Spamfighting Bootcamp Week 7: Allied Forces

Written by Casper Manes on March 23, 2012

Good morning, recruits. I SAID, GOOD MORNING, RECRUITS! I am Sergeant Nathan West, and it is my job to raise your general awareness about working with allied forces. Those of you I find lacking will quit. And those of you …