Anti-CIV

Spam is a reality of the Internet, but not all users suffer from it at the same extent. It is definitely hard for businesses to distinguish valuable messages from unsolicited emails. For business and personal assistance alike, software companies have created special anti-spam programs meant to block the access of unsolicited mail to inbox in more than 90% of cases. Released by Microsoft in May 2004, the Exchange spam blocker is a smart tool designed for mailbox protection. The target market for this product consists of individual users and companies that receive unsolicited commercial emails in very large numbers.

Microsoft Smart Screen technology stays at the basis of the Exchange spam blocker as it is essential for the identification of the nature of the message. The access of the unsolicited mail messages can thus be stopped at the mailbox or at the gateway depending on the settings. Other Microsoft tools were used before the launch of Exchange spam blocker. At present, Microsoft no longer provides updates for the former intelligent filters, in a clustered environment. The present version of the Exchange spam blocker is capable of stopping spam in the tracks, allowing for good business development.

The Exchange spam blocker relies on a combination of techniques meant to identify the messages that could be spam; thus, other than the use of the Bayes filter, the tool scans the messages for spam keywords and analyzes the spam headers. After the identification of the spam messages, it is up to the computer user to decide whether to keep or delete the messages. There are models of the Exchange spam blocker that actually inform a sender whether his or her message has been treated as spam despite its inherent legitimacy. Plus, the advantages of preventing spam directly on server before reaching the computer are manifold: less virus attacks and no malware unauthorized installation.

Internet marketing is a billion dollar industry. Rogue marketers on the Internet will do anything they can to get a fresh list of victims to send their spam email. The average computer user has had more than one instance where their inboxes are full of illicit advertisements. Black hat marketing campaigns will spend thousands of dollars to your favorite websites to find out your email and other contact information. They stick you onto their spam list and study your demographic, and then they can try and sell you their products, even if you have no interest in buying them.

Fortunately, there are many ways to stop this unwarranted and annoying advertisement with a few easy steps.

How to stop Spam:

1.) Look for websites with a comprehensive privacy policy and a spam-free approved logo. These websites will never sell your personal information to third-party sources.

2.) If a website in question does not have certification, use a secondary email account for your registration to prevent spam from getting to your main account.

3.) Stop spamming by using an email provider with a good spam filter. Examples include Yahoo.com, Gmail.com, Hotmail.com and other mainstream email programs.

4.) Install anti-spam software on your web server if you run a POP3 email program off of your own website.

5.) Do periodic scans for spyware and adware that sell your email and information to third-party companies.

These are just a few of the ways you can stop inexperienced spammers and marketers, however, most marketers are smart and will make alternate email accounts send you email even after you block their main accounts. Luckily, there is a way to stop them from e-mailing you on secondary email accounts.

Both adware and spyware are nuisances to computer users. Aside from slowing the computer speed, it threatens our privacy by infiltrating through our computer and pirating our private files. Everyone with computer infected with it surely wants to remove adware and spyware.

Adware and spyware are both viruses designed to advertise unwanted ads through computers. Adware causes disturbing, yet catchy and interesting, advertisements come out of the computer screen on top of all the windows opened. Adware advertisements use words, phrases or pictures that will surely get your attention and make you want to follow the link it provides making you caught in the adware trap. Spyware is literally a “spy ware” that spies on your personal information you used or accessed through your computer such as usernames, passwords, email addresses and other files and send these to a third-computer. The third-computer user will use the information as recipients of unwanted ads, which usually end up in the spam section of email accounts.

Not all computers infected by adware or spyware need to be professionally repaired or the computer trashed away. An average computer user can do something to restore the computer to its original state just by following few simple steps to remove adware and spyware.

Most adware and spyware are taken from the internet by accidentally downloading it and installing it in the computer. Other are secretly attached to another program which will be installed in the computer by installing the said program. Since adware and spyware are installed in the computer, the installation can be undone by simply uninstalling the program. The infected files or better yet the source of the virus could be found in the Add/Remove Program of the control panel. Just click the virus-program and click ‘remove” to uninstall it. After doing so, restart the computer to have it start running without the virus.