2011年12月5日星期一

Spam detection - A necessity to filter unsolicited mail messages

There are two levels of spam detection, one at the level of the server and another on the personal computer, depending on where the filters have been installed. Spam detection has become a necessity because the number of unsolicited mail messages is on the rise. Even if illegal, 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. For the moment, there are just two main ways to limit junk mail: spam prevention and spam detection.Spam prevention consists of basic precautions such as not disclosing the email address easily. Avoid filling in online forms and registration boxes with your email address. Do not respond to unknown senders, and most important do not forward messages such as jokes, warnings and other kinds of messages that allow for the accumulation of large numbers of email addresses. On the other hand, the installation of the software blocking tools is necessary for the efficient spam detection.Blockers and filters perform spam detection. First of all, filters separate legitimate messages from possible spam. Blockers on the other hand perform spam detection and cleaning without allowing the access to the personal computer. When the anti-spam software is installed on the server, things are even better because the viewing of the emails with a spam potential is possible without their being transferred in the computer memory. Spam light bulbs detection is now possible by using the light bulbs 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' strategies to pass undetected by filters and blockers and get into people's mail box. The truth is that so far, no software program has been invented to actually detect and stop spam 100%. 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 you don't open mails from strangers that somehow manage to pass the most advanced anti-spam tool.

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