Using a spam blocking Tool

Purchasing a spam blocking tool to help filter out spam can be a good step in reducing your email clutter.

Spam is any type of unsolicited commercial email. This annoying email is a waste of time, diskspace and bandwith, but unfortunately something we all must live with. Even though anti spam laws have been put in place, there is little hope that spammers will adhere to the laws so your best defense is to filter out as much as you can from your email

How Spammers Get Email Addresses

Sadly enough, most spammers got your email address because you gave it to them! If you have ever posted in a forum or advertised on the internet and included your email then it was probably grabbed by a spammer. 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, once you are on these lists, not even a spam blocking tool will be able to remove you from the lists.

Spam Can Be Harmful

For your defense, you need a spam blocking tool to filter the spam, but you need an antivirus tool as well. Spam emails can be infected, so clicking on them can open your computer up to a virus. According to estimates, 95% of all viruses 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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