Preventing Spam  

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Spam is the scourge of the existence. Application of electronic mailboxes flooding caused many problems in the world. The widely accepted definition of spam is "Electronic communications, which contains material of a commercial nature solicitational or illegal, addressed as part of the mass distribution to many addresses. Spam can be prevented in E-mail Box as follow:

  • Determine the IP address of the sender and blocks.
  • Use blacklists services such as SBL (http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl) or RBL (http://www.mailabuse.org/rbl), lists of IP addresses, which are experiencing the author of spammers. Black List services are effective at blocking spam, because they are using the newest methods in preventing spam.
  • Use protection anti-spam and e-services such as Gmail and Yahoo.
  • White-listing services, in which only the email addresses are known, after approval by the recipient.
  • Use the heuristic engine, the key to a model, who know the rules anti-spam and block communications, the famous model. Heuristics engines are known SpamAssassin has a higher detection rate.
  • A network of vigilance Open Source Initiative, maintenance of a database, then the mail server asks a central administration, Vipul's Razor for anti-spam lists.
  • With the help of engines Bayesian filtering as SpamBayes, http://www.spambayes.org/. It has its applications and lower risks.

Spam can also be blocked, configuring anti-virus software to scan e-mails about viruses. Draining leave your e-mail on the Internet and connecting to a freebies letters and circulars. Use an e-mail to that effect. Stay abreast of anti-spam and the latest effort anti-virus software and firewall system. Never open e-mails from unknown persons and immediately report on spam on the host email / supplier. Try Stand Alone filter anti-spam software Qurb as eTrust Anti-Spam, iHate Spam, Spam Bully.

Experts of PC World reported that almost 75 percent of e-mail is spam-mails and their study, they found that spam Catcher was one of the lowest and easiest Anti-Spam tools . Another remarkable product InBoxer it works only with Look Out.

The fight against spam is a global war and efforts are being made by manufacturers of software, search engines, laity, as well as others.

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