Flair10’s Weblog

May 14, 2008

Spam

Filed under: Spam — flair10 @ 8:46 am

Spam is junk email that is sent to millions of user’s with the intention of trying to sell something. People that give their email addresses on-line by filling out quick forms that are not on a secure websites are targeted by spammers. Also if a person gives away their email address on on-line forums, they are unwittingly setting themselves up to be a victim of spam.

The vast majority of people have software which intercepts spam before it gets to their email in box, this is a very effective way of dealing with spam. With this software an individual can set exact email addresses or key words on the settings to block unwanted email. For instance i would block words like viagra, sex, xxx, and anything relating to that kind of content. if you don’t want these emails blocked you can set them to be sent to your junk folder to be checked before you personally delete them. Spam software is very easy to install and getting to grips with it is pretty straight forward. 

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