Discover Four Proven Tips To Fight Spam Emails

Discover Four Proven Tips To Fight Spam Emails

Spam emails are junk emails or bulk emails sent to numerous recipients. Spam emails are usually aimed to advertise something, scam, or sending virus and trojan.

If we do not take precaution against spam, we will always receive it even though we’ve changed our email address, it’ll keeps coming to our inbox. Therefore, in order to block the spam emails, these are four proven tips that will block the spam emails completely.

1. Whitelist

Keep a whitelist. Whitelist is a list of everyone who can send emails to you and you can receive the emails if the person on your whitelist is the one who sent it. However, by using the whitelist, you're having a problem receiving newsletter or ezine if you forgot to add their email addresses. This is the problem of using whitelist. But, by using it, you will not receive anymore spam emails. Any emails that are not in your whitelist, will be sent to spam inbox.

2. Blacklist

Blacklist all the senders that you don't know or email addresses from previous spam emails. It will prevent the spammer to send more spam using the same email address to your inbox. A blacklist can blocks several email addresses and it will blocks any blacklist emails from entering your inbox.

3. Spam Blocker

If you're serious in fighting spam, consider investing in spam blocker software. Spam blocker software will filter the emails that you receive and distinguish it between spam or normal emails. There are many spam blocker software and you can search it on Google.

4. Report The Spam Emails

This is one of the methods that I like. If you receive more spam emails, report it to spamcop.net. Create an account with them and send your spam report to them. They will send the report to the hosting company of the email used by the spammer and the hosting company will do what is necessary to stop the spammer from sending anymore spam.

Spam is one of the threats that we faced when we're using the Internet. Even though some of the spam emails are not harmful, but it is a waste of time deleting it and it's annoying. Some spams are harmful to our computer because the spammer will send viruses or trojan as attachment and if we’re not careful enough, we will become their next victim.

By : Azwan Asmat

Are You Safe? Protecting Yourself Online

Are You Safe? Protecting Yourself Online

The increased use of the computer and internet although it has provided many benefits has also made us increasingly vulnerable to attack through computer viruses, fraudulent emails, and other attacks. No one unfortunately is immune to these attacks and it is therefore important to take precautions to help protect yourself online.

Get Good Internet Security Software

The first step in protecting yourself online is to get good internet security software. This software should include tools such as anti virus software, firewall software, anti spam, and perhaps some other tools such as anti spyware. A good internet security suite will help to protect you from most attacks that you face on your computer.

Use a Variety of Anti Spam Solutions to Block Spam

Spam is a real problem today and can help to spread viruses, Trojan horses and other dangerous software. It is therefore important to do what you can to block these spam emails by setting up your email program to block as much spam as you are comfortable with, white listing people you want to receive email from, blocking spam on your web host if you have your own domain, and using other anti spam software.

Protect Yourself by Increasing Your Knowledge

Another way to help protect yourself online is to increase your knowledge about the kind of attacks that you may be facing. Learn about phishing, how to spot a fraudulent email and what to do if you receive one. Stay up to date about other attacks on computers and viruses that are going round.

Although there are many honest internet marketers and computer users there are also many who dishonest and do spread viruses, spyware, and spam. Protect yourself by learning as much as you can, blocking spam and getting good internet security software.

By : Mandy Buchanan