Monday, November 26, 2012

Efficient Spam Detection


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. Spam prevention and spam detection remain the only ways to limit the impact of spam for the moment.

Spam prevention is pretty basic: do not disclose your email address easily. This means that you must not enter the email address on web pages that require registration; better get a secondary address and use that for the purpose. Do not respond to unknown senders, and resist the temptation of sharing funny messages with friends by forwarding emails. 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 are tools that don't allow the spam 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. Detecting spam is now possible on the basis of the 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' means to fool blockers and filters 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%. 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 the mails whose sender you don't know be deleted.

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