AntiSpam Guide
Halt spam before it reaches your inbox!
from: Jason Frovich
Every day - 365 days a year - more than 10 billion spam e-mails are sent out to e-mail users all over the world. Despite new laws and verdicts trying to strike down on the spammers, the number of spam e-mails are expected to rise to 30 billion a day by the end of 2005. Today spam constitutes 37% of all e-mail traffic in the U.S.
Spam is not only annoying, it_s dangerous and it is causing financial losses for companies as well as individuals. For example, an estimated 10 billion euros are spent every year by companies in the European Union to deal with spam. Spam is sent out by fraudulent companies and individuals and can often be infected with viruses, spy programs or other undesired software. Studies show that 95% of all computer viruses are sent through e-mail. Even virus free spam causes problems since it consumes the users_ time as well as hard disc space. Spam is however not only shunned by the users, the Internet Service Providers abhor it as well since it chews up a lot of bandwidth and disc space, and the non-stop sending of e-mails uses a lot of system resources and stresses the e-mail servers. This leads to a less effective Internet and increased costs for everyone.
The best way to protect your self from spam and battle the spammers is to use a Spam Blocker. The most basic forms of Spam Blockers are software programs periodically checking your e-mail for the best known types of spam and remove them, or filter them into a special folder for you to remove. There are however much more sophisticated Anti Spam programs on the market. The Webroot Spam Shredder is a Spam Filtering Software that lets you to remove spam e-mails from the mail server without ever pulling them down into your inbox. This means heavily increased security for your computer and your network and is the most efficient and effortless way of controlling your incoming e-mails. You will be given the opportunity to accept or delete suspected e-mails while they are still on the server. You can also choose to quarantine them for later review.
The Webroot Spam Shredder is equipped with a smart learning engine, which studies your decisions to keep or delete spam. The longer you use the Webroot Spam Shredder, the more effectively the program will sort your incoming e-mail. The Webroot Spam Shredder Whitelist and the Webroot Spam Shredder Blacklist features let you identify e-mails that should be immediately delivered or instantly deleted. If you use Outlook, Outlook Express or Eudora for your e-mail, you can effortlessly import your contact list into your Whitelist. When friends, family, colleagues etcetera send you e-mail those letters while be instantly delivered to you inbox and you won_t have to make any decisions regarding them.
The Webroot Spam Shredder database is a frequently updated to protect you from the latest known spam. You can choose your desired level of protection and the type of messages to scan with the Spam Shredder.
Are you tired of spam stealing your time, bandwidth and hard disc space? Applying the Webroot Spam Shredder allows you to determine up to 99.9% of the spam e-mails. Install the Webroot Spam Shredder today and start safeguarding your time as well as your money from the fraudulent spam senders!
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