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Originally Posted by HamsterWheel
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The article confuses different issues. Surfing with phishing protection such as that offered by webwise (and any decent browser) doesn't stop you getting spam and phishing e-mails. It just stops you from going to the urls they link to. The best way to reduce the spam you get is not to give your address out freely. Make sure it never appears on any webpage and preferably don't have something easily guessable.
Personally I have a custom mail server and use a unique address for everything I sign up to. In over a year of use only 1 address has been compromised and that resulted in 2 phishing e-mails before I blocked the address. I didn't even read the phishing e-mails. They purported to be from banks that I don't have accounts with and my bank doesn't know my e-mail address anyway.
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