Spam.
How to fight it.
Released on
= August 9, 2005, 12:26 am
Press Release
Author = SoftInform
Industry = Computers
Press Release
Summary = Internet is flooded today with undesirable advertising
letters also known as spam. Both for an ordinary user connecting
to Internet via dialup and for various companies paying for the
dedicated line or using DSL spam equals wasted megabytes of information.
The megabytes, which are paid for. And time, wasted on viewing advertising
offers of unnecessary things or services.
Press Release
Body = Spam. How to fight it.
Internet is flooded today with undesirable advertising letters also
known as spam. Both for an ordinary user connecting to Internet
via dialup and for various
companies paying for the dedicated line or using DSL spam equals
wasted megabytes of information. The megabytes, which are paid for.
And time, wasted on viewing advertising offers of unnecessary things
or services. Currently there are a lot of ways to guard your email
box against unceasing attacks of “Viagra”, tourist reservations,
commercial seminars and the best “windows and doors”
in the world, which can be bought cheaply and simply. One of the
cures could
be changing the email account. But this is by no means a panacea:
in a while the new box will be displaying nonsense newsletters from
all over the world. You can of course use the server-inbuilt filters
or paid resources which try to minimize the spam flow, letting through
just the letters from “authorized addressers”. But the
server filters block just a small part of proposals to “enlarge”
or “relax”. And the
powerful “authorization” protection is, first, expensive
(plus a monthly fee), and second, is very inconvenient for people
on the contact-list (they have to undergo a
lengthy “authorization” procedure).
Ideal filter
To clean the mail account from spam a universal anti-advertising
shield is needed which will save the money otherwise wasted on downloading
weighty letters traffic and the time otherwise lost on viewing and
deleting them. Such a shield is the programs which remotely check
the mail in the user box without uploading them and block unwanted
letters immediately at the server. Such programs are many. They
differ in interface and functionality, but have one thing in common:
obligatory check of email at the server. Without this feature there
would be no sense in the blockers at all. To upload messages and
check them locally is not a big deal. The applications differ in
their settings, spam filtering ways, speed of work and different
features enabling maximum efficiency. The most wide-spread way of
blocking spam is by letter headings and continuously updated list
of “illegitimate” addresses, which are known as harmful
advertisements distributors. What should an ideal spam blocking
application be like? First, it should cope with its primary duties
flawlessly. Second, it should have a nice interface, be simple to
tune and work autonomously. Third, it shouldn’t prevent normal
functioning of other programs, mail clients in particular. Let’s
look into the interior side of a
spam-blocking application and decipher the underlying basics.
Spam-blocking
principles
Usually the application downloads message headers which undergo
“partial enquiry”. Depending on the functionality of
a certain “tool”, filtering is conducted by fields (header,
sender, addressee etc.), black and white lists of electronic addresses
in the database and a wider list of recognized spam generating servers.
For checking lists are used, either created by developers or edited
by users. Undoubtedly, the
more thorough the home-made spam-blocking provisions, the better,
but ideal work cannot be achieved without proper tuning of blocking
and filtering rules. Of course a user setting the most rigid rules
risks losing with the blocked spam useful and
harmless letters. But in any case, it’s a private decision.
Apart from preinstalled blocking rules, user can make his/her own
corrections, such as widening the “dangerous server”
lists, editing black and white lists and creating his/her own lists
conforming to certain rules (for instance, taking into account
letter size plus filtering from “that particular left-most
Korean server list). On installing the application and adjusting
its settings (or you can leave everything
as it is) and initial workability check, one can make a final decision
concerning fitness of the filter for further use. It remains to
decide which application to
select.
SoftInform Spam
Blocker
New spam-blocking application by SoftInform company - Spam Blocker
– enables maximum efficiency by guarding the user computer
(his/her mail box to be more specific) from spam flows, saving money
and time on viewing useless messages and paying for the
“mail advertisements” traffic. As a universal spam blocking
tool Spam Blocker possesses indefeasible advantages compared to
analogical applications. High quality (blocking 85 to 100% of spam),
simple, exquisite and friendly interface, flexibility of settings
make SoftInform newly released application the best in its class.
Are you not
tired of endless spam? Have you lost track of newly registered (“clean”)
accounts? Dozens of letters daily burn you and your company megabytes
of far from free traffic? All you need to do is to install Spam
Blocker, in such a way ridding your computer from persistent and
useless e-mail advertising.
Web Site = http://spam-blocker.adscleaner.com
Contact Details
= sbpress@adscleaner.com
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