Using a central spam protection Tool

Using a central spam protection tool to help filter out spam can be a good step in reducing your email clutter.

What is spam? Any type of unsolicited commercial email. Sorting through these emails is a waste of time, bandwidth and diskspace. There are new laws to deal with spammers however, it is unlikely that people who send spam will adhere to these laws so the only thing left to do is to try to filter out as much of it as you can.

How Spammers Get Email Addresses

Spammers have sophisticated software that crawls the web looking for email addresses. If you have posted your email anywhere on the web, this could be how it got out to spammers. Spammers have robots that crawl the web looking for anything in the form of an email address, so if you have a web site with your email listed on it or you are published in any kind of directory or listed on a site, your email is sure to get on a mailing list. Unfortunately, no software anti spam program, not even a central spam protection tool can erase your email from these lists.

How Spam Can Be More Than Just An Annoyance

You need a central spam protection tool to filter spam, but you should also have a good antivirus tool as well. As if it wasn’t bad enough you have to deal with those annoying emails, click on them can give your computer a virus! It’s estimated that 95% of all viruses are spread through email. Some viruses propagate by mailing themselves out to everyone on the infected computers address list while other, more sinister types open a “back door” on the machine which spammers can use to send out more junk emails.

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