Blocking Spam

If you are one of those who are technologically inclined, surfing on the other Internet, chatting your time away with your buddies through your emails, or playing various games with your friends who come from different locations, then you should pay attention to this essay.

Spam Wars: Fighting Email Spam With Spam Filters

Have you ever wondered how those odd-ball emails make their way into your inbox? Some contain absurd titles like: There was so much sugar in that dessert that it made my eyes hurt! Hippolytus as old records have said. Never been better since I laughed the bank.

Software For Blocking Spam Mail

You would think at first that blocking spam mail is as easy as it sounds (it does not even sound so easy at all). But every time you read an article about blocking spam mail you end up reading it for over five times just to be able to actually understand what it means or what it is saying.

What Is Spam, Where Does It Come From And Why

Spam is a nickname applied to unsolicited mail, usually of a corporate nature. It gets it's name from a famous Monty Python sketch in which the word spam is used more than all others words combined. Monty Python was funny, spam is not.

Types of Spam Filters

A spam filter is a web-based program which helps to prevent spam e-mail from entering your inbox. Password filter, blacklist and, whitelist filters, challenge/response filter, rules-based filter, community-based filter, and adaptive/Bayesian filter are among the common types of spam filters used nowadays.

Tactics Against Spam Blocking

Microsoft Outloook Express is used by almost everyone all over the world. It sends multiple messages to your friends, loved ones, colleagues, and the list of your electronic mail's recipients goes on and on. It is certainly a gift to those who need communication the most due to their jobs. But this gift is starting to be disrupted by a common annoying bug.

Stop Spam With A Bayesian Filter

What is a Bayesian filter and how does it work? Learn how a Bayesian Filter can help you stop spam.

Stop Spammers By Combining Your Weapons

Spammers use a whole plethora of tricks and weapons to make sure their worthless muck arrives in your inbox. There's no reason that you shouldn't do the same to make sure it doesn't.

Spyware Dangers: Does Your Type Of Connection Matter

Does the types of connection that your computer has to the World Wide Web matter when it comes to vulnerability to spyware and Adware dangers? That is one of the questions that is asked often.

Hobbit Spam - A Symptom Of A Future Problem

Many people have been receiving e-mails with simple lines of text. Initially these were 3 lines of text from the book 'The Hobbit'. It was initially theorized that this was a failed spam attempt by a 'script kiddie', but in reality it is much more calculated and sinister.

Spam - How Bad Is It

Have you ever wondered just how bad spam is? This article provides some startling numbers.

CAN-SPAM for good

Tips to keep from sending SPAM and what to do with the SPAM you receive. With the cost of computers and high speed connections going down, I suppose it was inevitable, but is anyone actually answering the solicitations for amorous relationships, anatomy modifications, and get rich quick schemes? If so I wish they would stop, so it all dries up sooner rather than later...

Stop Spam - A Creative Solution

Some months ago I decided to get serious about stopping spam. I did an awful lot of research into spam, where it comes from, why it profits the spammer so much and the evolving methods of both sending and combating spam.

Stopping Spam - Another Reason For Stopping Spam

How's your internet connection running? Slower than last year? That's not really surprising.

Features of Spam Filters

Spam filter's objective is to clear your inbox from unwanted messages. This is primarily done by analyzing the received email and marking it as spam or legitimate. The analysis varies depending on the type of filter used – content-based filter, whitelist-blacklist filter, etc. Though spam filters vary in detecting spam, the important features are quite the same and true to all spam filters.