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Welcome to our Anti Spam Software and Solution Help Page: In our research section, we try to keep our readers informed about a variety of technology related products and services. Keep reading to find out everything you need to know about how to block spam and keep it out of your email box, whether you use Outlook, Lotus Notes, or some other email software. Enjoy! See the categories below to get started learning about stopping spam: |
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What is Spam?Spam is the Internet equivalent of junk mail. It is unsolicited advertising messages sent in bulk (often 100s of thousands or millions at a time) across electronic networks. From the University of Arizona:
Anti-Spam Software Solutions:How can I get rid of spam? Most anti spam solutions begin with filtering. Incoming messages are passed through a series of filters or screens, discarding messages from certain senders or domains, or discarding messages not addressed to your exact email address, or deleting messages that contain words like "Viagra". For most home users, software like Spam Agent is a solution that works with MS Outlook, Eudora, and most other POP-based email programs. Another anti-spam program (MailWasher) works at the server level, allowing you to browse messages on your host server, before downloading anything to your PC, thus protecting you from viruses and other nasty spyware that might try to get installed. It has similiar capabilities for scanning and filtering incoming mail, comparing it against a databased of known spam, and automatically removing such junk email messages.Another technique to block and eliminate spam involves confirming who the email is coming from, and ONLY allowing messages from approved people into your inbox. Qurb uses a system of user authentication like this. Since real spam is sent out by the millions with no human intervention (and usually with fake return addresses), sending back a request for authentication gets no response, and the message is marked as spam and eliminated. However, a real human sender would get the challenge email asking for authentication and reply to it, and then the message will get through to you. This is an effective anti-spam solution, although there is usually some trial and error as you "train" the system. Many people also find that using the free, public email services (Google Mail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, etc.) is a good way to avoid spam. These services process massive volumes of email each day, and quickly recognize incoming spam and delete it from users mailboxes before they even see it. By using "johndoe@yahoo.com" as your email, you will likely see a 90% drop immediately in the amount of spam you were receiving. Anti-spam filtering at the server level like this is something companies can do for themselves internally as well, as discussed below. Anti Spam Enterprise Server SolutionsMany businesses that run their own email servers don't have the option of using Yahoo mail, or having users manually scan and filter their own mail for spam. Anti-spam server software like Securence handle these situations, scanning for both viruses and spam. They collect and identify spam from various traps on the internet, assigning DNA-like IDs to each, making it easy to then spot and delete them when they show up in users mailboxes. GFI MailEssentials performs a similiar task, based on your email server, stopping spam before it gets to your users. Pricing for solutions like this are normally per user or per server. Costs can range from a $10-$20 per user on up, and from $500-$1000 per server on up.Anti-Spam solutions for Lotus Notes: Lotus Notes users may try something like SpamSentinel from Mayflower Software. They track millions of messages and maintain an anti-spam database, filtering out 98% of spam right off the top. Anti-spam software for MS Exchange Server is also available. Hexamail handles this task, acting as a plugin for Exchange Server, analyzing incoming email. EMP5 works at the server level for both MS Exchange and Lotus Domino. Links?Download anti-spam software: CNet
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