SPAM is only the e-mail messages which are directed to a mass of email addresses for commercial function. These emails are the unwanted ones which come into our Inbox and make it difficult for us to sort out our useful mails. A SPAM might consist of malware, bugs or any such application program which could be harmful to our Personal computers - Operating System as well as other applications/programs.
You can prevent such emails entering into your inbox by installing anti-spam software that is available for free on the internet. Extremely regularly used Anti-SPAM Softwares are - e-Trust Anti-Spam (usually used for MS Outlook and Outlook Express to stop SPAM from heading into our Inbox and being mixed with our important emails), Spam shield (handles 99% of our junk mails and is easy to fit), Choice Mail One (includes our MSN, Yahoo, AOL or Hotmail account and allows us to import our contact details list for approval), Spam Bully (it uses the mechanism of Allow and Block List to differentiate between our useful and unwanted emails and has a exclusive feature of auto-delete to clear the spam automatically rather than sending it to another folder), Spam Eater (tests our mailbox after each 10 minutes and has no installing process and thus which makes it easy to set up).
With the help of anti-spam software, the useful emails are filtered and the unwanted or suspicious emails are sent into the spam folder as the software is designed to detect the SPAM emails. An Anti-SPAM Software must be fixed in our PC to safeguard it from viruses, bugs, etc. You woont see any unwanted emails in your inbox if you install this anti-spam software straight on your email server. A lot of Web Service Providers have created a blacklist of several spam senders known as the spammers in order that the blacklisted spam senders will be conveniently traced and rejected.
An anti-spam software should include features like it should be able to block the emails, that means, it should check the email addresses, the subject line and also read the messages in the email, moreover, it should also update the filters automatically, remove the spam from our inbox thereby putting only secured emails into our inbox by checking several email accounts.
Anti-Spam software must be the one which offers us privacy. Here are several benefits of installing anti-spam software: -
o It avoids the unnecessary emails by reading the subject lines, text in the email messages and the senders email addresses.
o It contains the built-in filtering feature released from time to time by the anti-spam software company which helps to keep our anti-spam software up-to-date.
o It lets us to create our own customized filters.
o The unwanted or suspicious emails remains for 30 days after which it is earsed.
o It enables us to maintain a safe list of several folks whose mails never get into the spam list and thereby are prevented from being thought as a spam.
o It helps us to monitor and delete the unwanted emails as well as filter our emails from multiple accounts by filtering our personal and official mails separately.
o It includes a feature which helps us to report the spam in order that the anti spam software making firm makes new filters by analyzing the reported spam.
Some of the popular anti-spam software are Windows Registry Cleaner, Anti Adware, Anti Spyware and many more
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