The new high speed Internet, thanks to optic fiber connections and very wide scale and varied usage, like even for homeschooling, unfortunately give some opportunity to abuse, like spams… There are two levels of spam detection and spam blocker, one at the level of the server and another on the personal computer, depending on where the filters have been installed. Spam detection is a must in the conditions of an alarming increase of the unsolicited mail wave. Although punishable by law, spamming continues to be a common practice for lots of businesses that hide on the world wide web market and fool naive Internet users. For the moment, there are just two main ways to limit junk mail: spam prevention and spam detection.
Spam prevention is pretty basic: do not disclose your email address easily. Avoid filling in online forms and registration boxes with your email address. Do not answer emails whose sender you do not know, and resist the temptation of sharing funny messages with friends by forwarding emails. Spam detection on the other hand can be performed on the personal computer or on the server, and in both cases it requires the installation of some software blocking tools.
Filters and blockers perform spam detection. First of all, filters separate legitimate messages from possible spam. Blockers are tools that don’t allow the spma access to the personal computer. Viewing the emails on the server represents one other way of preventing computer infection with viruses and malware. Spam detection is now possible on the basis of the sender’s ID, the keywords specific to spamming and several other criteria integrated in the technology.
Just as the spam detection means constantly improve, so do the spammers’ strategies to fool filters and blockers and get into people’s mail box. Up to now, there is no total protection against spam. It is also not known whether things will ever be different for the matter and whether there will be more than 99% anti-spam protection available. 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.
