Spam Detection - A Tip For Your Mail Box
Written on January 31, 2010 – 11:31 pm | by Guru
The new high speed Internet connection because of the optic fiber technology and the wider and higher usage of the Net, such as homeschooling, sadly has given more opportunity for abuse, so there are some security issues like spam… There are two levels of spam detection and spam blocker, one at the level of the server and another on the personal computer, depending on where the filters have been installed. Spam detection is a must in the conditions of an alarming increase of the unsolicited mail wave. Although punishable by law, the action of spamming is conducted by very many dishonest businesses that use the world wide wed to hide their identity and dupe as many people as possible. Spam prevention and spam detection remain the only ways to limit the impact of spam for the moment.
Spam prevention is pretty basic: do not disclose your email address easily. Avoid filling in online forms and registration boxes with your email address. Do not respond to unknown senders, and resist the temptation of sharing funny messages with friends by forwarding emails. On the other hand, the installation of the software blocking tools is necessary for the efficient spam detection.
Filters and blockers perform spam detection. First of all, filters separate legitimate messages from possible spam. Blockers are tools that don’t allow the spma access to the personal computer. Viewing the emails on the server represents one other way of preventing computer infection with viruses and malware. Spam detection can thus be achieved on the basis of the sender’s ID, the keywords specific to spamming and several other criteria integrated in the technology.
The means for spam detection constantly improve, so do the spammers’ means to fool blockers and filters and get into people’s mail box. Up to now, there is no total protection against spam. Who knows whether things will ever change and more anti-spam measures will be possible? If kept at this level, spam is not that much a problem, on condition that the mails whose sender you don’t know be deleted.
Tags: online security, spam, spam blocker, spam detection
