Checking Anti Spam Programs

2007-07-23 10:21:39

( Computers )



Mainstream communication on the Internet is through email. You get emails from friends and family and most often than not, you get emails from people you don't know.

Emails from random people and getting a bulk of those emails at a time is called Spam. Getting spam emails will lead to having email problems. To prevent having email problems brought about by spam emails, you need to have anti spam programs.

Anti Spam programs are also known as spam blocking softwares, spam blocker softwares, spam mail software or even just spam software. This software is available for download from the Internet. There are countless web sites and companies offering anti spam programs. And there are lots of these anti spam programs that you can get for free.

You can buy these anti spam programs in local computer shops and manually install them on your computers. Try to ask a local computer technician and do an anti spam software review before buying spam softwares.

If you have access to the Internet and you are using email to send and receive information, you need protection. Firewalls, anti viruses, anti spywares and anti spam programs will be your first line of defense.

Receiving emails from family and friends would be very normal when using the Internet. But when you get multiple emails from persons you do not know, and you keep on getting the same emails over and over, that would be considered as spam email. Action must be done in order for your email address to prevent spam from coming in.

Anti spam programs are softwares which filter and sort out incoming emails. These spam softwares focuses on email addresses that are potential spammers. Spam blocking softwares check each email address and determine if a certain address is to be considered as a spammer. Thus, making the email from that email address a spam. Anti spam softwares prevent junk emails from coming in your email address.

A spam email contains a lot of possible things. Since it is considered as a spam or a junk mail, it most probably is an advertisement from the web. A spam email is an advertisement ninety percent of the time. Emails from your family or friends may sometimes be considered as spam.

Anti spam programs will sort emails and determine if an email is a possible spam. Once an email is received, your spam blocking software will either isolate that email and send it to a designated folder or just delete that email. It depends on your preference and the settings that you put on your spam blocking software.

Having more than one spam mail software is advisable. You can have as much protection as you want when it comes to anti spam programs. As long as these programs don't have conflicts with each other, your safety is one of the best things you can keep when you have anti spam programs.


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