Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages. Spamming is economically viable because advertisers have no operating costs beyond the management of their mailing lists, and it is difficult to hold senders accountable for their mass mailings.
Spam inundates your Inbox with annoying e-mails from companies advertising products that you do not want or need. The content of some of these e-mails is sometimes not suitable for children to see.
Not only is spam an irritation but many spam e-mails encourage users to visit websites associated with malicious software, fraudulent or inappropriate activity.
By opening spam e-mails your children could unwittingly be taken to websites which advertises unsuitable material. Even worse, you could easily become a victim of phishing attacks.
If you have published your e-mail address on the Internet then you are more at risk of receiving unsolicited bulk, also known as spam.
Anti-spam software is the only way to effectively control the influx of spam.
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It is believed that on an average, an e-mail user receives more than 2 000 Spam e-mails every year! By certain accounts, an e-mail user receives more than 77 percent of the mail as spam - which is around 10 out of every 13 e-mails you receive! More than two-thirds of the e-mail passing through the air waves are pure junk - unwanted and unsolicited. It, therefore, becomes imperative that you chose the right anti-spam software that meets with your requirements. |
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Spam has existed for about as long as the Internet has. Across the Internet there are various ways in which spam can be posted. Spam in the form of e-mails remains the most dominant type of spam present on the Internet. 90 billion spam e-mails are sent daily worldwide; a figure that that has more than doubled since 2005, at which point it stood at 30 billion. |
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Unwanted e-mail includes messages that have malicious software attachments, are part of some kind of fraudulent scheme, or are associated with cyberbullying, online child predators, or other illegal or undesirable activities. There are many kinds of unwanted e-mail, with most sharing one or more of the following traits: |
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As most of us are aware, nearly all e-mail accounts come with some sort of e-mail filter setting that you can change to try and cut down spam e-mail. Sure it works ok but spam still gets through and if someone e-mails you who isn't already on your contact list well its goodbye to them as they are treated to the same courtesy as junk mail. |
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Anti Spam
