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E-mail has now been misused and one
proof is the existence of spam e-mail. It is irritating to see that your
mailbox is full just because of these spam e-mail.
Thus, you need to delete these unwanted
e-mails before you even get a glimpse of the important ones.
So instead of manually deleting these spam
e-mail, it's recommended that you download or purchase an anti-spam
software.
Spam
also poses a threat to internet users because it may contain virus which
can infect your computer system. And some spammer's are very good
in making their e-mail to appear as legit.
They can disguise as if you know then and
may convince you to download the attached file that contains a virus. They
also do certain tricks to hide their real addresses so even if you are
blocked their e-mail address (that shows up in the From field of a
received e-mail), their e-mail can still get through to your mailbox. But
with the help of anti-spam software, spammer's and computer
viruses can be avoided.
Anti-spam software
helps you fight the battle with unsolicited e-mail. E-mail service
providers will basically give you options to block certain e-mail address
thus; you can block a spammer's e-mail address. However, anti-spam
software offers an extensive list of features that your e-mail
provider may not have.
Although there are many available anti-spam
software to choose from, they still offer similar services or features
such as:
Allow or Block list.
To save time in deleting unwanted e-mail, you can use the antispam feature
to filter the e-mail you are receiving based on the e-mail address. This
can either be done by creating allow or block list.
Allow list will contain the e-mail or
domain addresses that you wish to receive e-mail from while a block list
will mostly be the ones you consider as spammer (or can also be
people whom you know but wish not to communicate with them via e-mail).
Filtering based on e-mail subject or
content. Spammers commonly used vulgar or adult words (sometimes too
offending). Thus, filtering based on a keyword is helpful in blocking
these spammers.
Antispam software will allow you to create
keyword list. If an e-mail contains a keyword you have specified, it will
not go into your mailbox.
E-mail virus-scan.
Since there is a possibility that a virus is attached in a spam e-mail,
antispam software also offers e-mail virus scan.
Some software even offers automatic
scanning once you open the e-mail and will also automatically
remove any virus on an e-mail. Some will also automatically delete an
e-mail that contains a virus.
Auto-detect spam.
Antispam software can also offer automatic filtering. This
filtering can be based on profiling. Spam is determined based on
what you or the software consider as spam.
Your profiling is determined when you block
or delete an e-mail because you consider it spam. Then, there are also
cases that the antispam software already received a lot of report from a
specific e-mail so it can be automatically considered as spam by the
software itself.
With the great features and benefits that
an antispam software offers, stopping spammers in abusing the
e-mail is now made easy.
Dave Poon
is an accomplished writer who specializes in the latest in Internet
Safety. For more information regarding Antispam
Software please drop by at http://www.bye-bye-spam.com/
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