What can Anti-Spam Software Do?

Anti-Spam software can help prevent you receiving spam emails which may contain rude photographs, links to inappropriate websites asking for your bank or credit card details, asking for charity donations or asking for money for some sick children in Africa, selling products and or services which aren’t appropriate for you or children to view as well many other types of inappropriate readings and pictures. Spam emails may also contain viruses, worms or Trojan horses which if opened attach to your computer and or email account.

No-one wants to receive thousands of spam emails especially in your personal inbox so you need to take action, if you don’t more and more spam emails are going to locate your address and send you even more spam. In a business email account you seem to get more spam especially if the email address is viewable on your website. If this is true you should create an email address for the purpose of your website and then all your website generated emails go into this inbox.

An Anti-Spam software package should include spam filters, which allow your normal mail to pass to your inbox with no problems but spam emails will be diverted into a spam or junk folder automatically. You should always check your spam or junk inbox though because I’ve found sometimes my normal mail goes it there too so always best to check before you delete all your junk emails. A spam filter will look for ‘buzz’ words, which are rude, inappropriate etc. then direct them to your junk folder. If viruses are attached to emails these are blocked usually by the use of single or multiple virus engines, which check every email, that comes through to your inbox. The filter also filters out inappropriate photographs and images, which is unsuitable for everyone.

You may not even know you have viruses on your computer at home or at work, so a good spam filter will not only check incoming emails for viruses but your outgoing emails too. If you send emails out to clients, friends or family you don’t want to send them a virus do you. So a good spam filter will protect both ingoing and outgoing emails.

A good Anti-Spam software package will provide you with information on what emails are blocked as spam and any other information you may want to know included what viruses may have been attached to certain emails.

Anti-Spam Software can not only help a business but a home computer too, so go get youself some Anti-Spam Software.

Jene is the Webmaster of MySpamBin who specialize in Anti-Spam Software .

What is Spam?

So the question what is spam or spamming as its also know as, there are so many different definitions on what spam actually is so I will list a fee so you can make your own mind up:

· Junk email which is usually unsolicited – sending a mass of emails from commercial sites to people who haven’t ask for the email and also emails sent to annoy or harass the receiver which may include crashing their computer.

· Unsolicited email – advertising a product and or service, which will overload the receiver’s computer which will slow the computer down.

· The using of mailing lists – to blanket online groups, private email boxes with indiscrimination, unsolicited messages of a promotional nature.

· An activity – that tricks search engines into giving their site a higher ranking on searches via hiding keywords and submitting webpage’s daily to the search engine.

· Ian an inappropriate attempt to – send emails and use emails to send the same email message to numerous people who didn’t ask for the information as well as other network communications.

Spam emails has got worse over the last few years in 2001 only 8% of emails sent worldwide were spam at the end of this year 2007 50% of all emails sent will be spam. If you have a company website this is likely to get worse, as spam emails will come through your business email address.

Spam cannot only cause you the inconvience in having to delete them all, it can crash your computer, overload your email account stopping you from receiving and sending other emails but also time and money lost. Money can be lost by stopping you from receiving important emails and also by the time colleagues spend deleting and filtering spam emails, which will stop them from doing their normal job. Worms and viruses may also be included in spam emails, which can destroy data and your system information

There are ways of filtering spam emails with the use of anti spam software and spam filtering software. There are free packages available on the Internet to help you protect your home computer and your email accounts but if you are a business looking for anti spam and spam filtering software your best bet is to look into the many companies selling specially designed packages for businesses.

There isn’t a complete cure for spam but anti spam and spam-filtering software can help your spam emails reduce but you will always get a few that filter through to your inbox. There are other ways to minimize your spam including: -

· Don’t use your personal email account when you sign up to newsgroups, forums, mailing lists etc.

· Use web filters to filter out your spam.

· Don’t click on any links that are in spam emails, don’t give them any of your personal information and don’t buy anything from them.

· If you have a website remove your email address from the website, this can be done by using a form to do with validation.

Jene is the Webmaster of MySpamBin who specialize in Spam Filtering Software .