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When I received my first spam message I assumed it was a mistake. Someone had sent the email to me when they meant to send it to someone who’s address was similar. A typo? As spam became more prevalent, the initial thought that someone had got my address and was sending ME messages was hard to get rid of. Somewhere out there there was a person sitting behind a desk, sifting through email lists and deciding what spam to send me today.

Spammers, as I have indicated in several previous articles, are not silly people. Doing what they do, on the scale they do it, takes a degree of competence and expertise well above the average internet user. And the truth is that even if all the spammers in the world had a change of conscience tomorrow and laid down thier spam-pens, never sending another message, that spam would continue to flow around the world for some time to come.

The problem is zombies. A zombie is a regular internet user who’s machine has become infected with a trojan that sets up a SMTP application and sends out spam. There are two basic zombie patterns - the zombie forwards mail sent to them by a spammer, or the zombie comes preprogrammed with a spam message and mailing list. In either case the zombie surfer will usually have no idea that they are sending our spam

Spam zombies are usually created from downloading ‘free stuff’ from the internet and in particular peer-to-peer software. Spammers also spread the trojans with thier spam itself, and some email clients make this easy by activating scripts within messages. In instances where security settings are low the trojans can be picked up by merely visiting the wrong webpage and allowing certain javascript codes to run.

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To avoid becoming a zombie:

1. Always scan anything you download from the internet, and only download from trusted sources.

2. Keep your internet security settings high.

3. Ensure your machine has all the latest updates installed at any point.

4. Regularly scan with an anti-virus AND an anti-Adware program.

5. Employ a quality spam blocker(Such as SpamWasher, avaliable on my site) to protect yourself against viruses transmitted by spam mail.

There is enough spam in the world as it is without your machine turning into a zombie and adding to the problem.

With an estimated 70-90 billion spam messages sent every day, the problem is not going away. Don’t wait for someone to solve the problem for you, visit STOPSPAMNOW.info and download your free ebook on how to win the fight against spam.

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When I began my anti spam crusade, I had assumed that most people online could competently do things such as set up a spam filter in Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express. It turns out this is not so, the fear of making adjustment to the default settings getting the better of quite a majority of the population, or else just never having the time or inclination to get in and figure it out.

Luckily it is quite an easy process, and even the most computer-ese challenged amongst us can get it done easily once we understand how to it works. In this little how-to I am going to give an example how to set up a filter using Outlook Express, purely on the basis that this is the program open on my desktop as I type this.

There are two parts to a filter - a condition, and an action. The condition defines the set of circumstances that will trigger the action. The action is of course what happens when the circumstances described in the condition are true.

The example I will use here is to delete messages with [SPAM] in the title. My ISP once went through a rather silly phase of not deleting spam - but marking it in the header and leaving the deletions to us. It seems they too had made an assumption that all their customers could set up a filter to handle the hundreds of [SPAM] marked messages they suddenly started receiving. They were quickly put right but overloaded switchboards.

So we are going to create a simple filter in Outlook Express that deletes everything with [SPAM] in the title.

Step 1: Click on the menu Item Tools. Point at Message Rules and select(click on) mail… A small new window will open with the heading Message Rules and three tabs. The Mail… tab will be selected.

Step 2: Click on the New… button. Another new window opens with the titlebar New Mail Rule. There are 4 boxes to fill in.

Step 3: In the first white box Click in the square beside “Where the Subject line contains specific word”. A tick will appear in the box. You will notice the 3rd box gets some more writing in it, we will deal with that soon.

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Step 4: In the second white box click in the square next to Delete It. A tick will appear in the box. The text in the third white box will now read: Apply this rule after the message arrives, Where the Subject line contains specific words, Delete it. The words ‘contains specific words will be blue and underlined.

Step 5: In the third white box click on the blue underlined words ‘contains specific words’. A new window will open with the title bar Type Specific Words.

Step 6: In the first box in this window type [SPAM]. Click Add. Click Okay. You will be returned to the previous window. The third box will now contain the text: Apply this rule after the message arrives Where the Subject line contains ‘[SPAM]’ Delete it

Step 7: In the fourth Box type a userfriendly name for your spam filter. I use “Delete [SPAM] rule”. Click the OK button. After clicking okay you are taken back to the message rules window. Click OK here and your filter is added. Well Done.

As far as I am aware there is no limit to the number of filters you can apply. The important thing to remember is that the filter doesn’t discriminate. If the result returns true then the action (Deleting in this case) will be applied.

Happy filtering.

With an estimated 70-90 billion spam messages sent every day, the problem is not going away. Don’t wait for someone to solve the problem for you, visit STOPSPAMNOW.info and download your free ebook on how to win the fight against spam.

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Spamdexing is the practice of manipulating the natural results of search engines to artificially inflate the positions of a webpage. It is a common practice which both bred it’s own industry and saw the rise of internet giant google.

The first search engines were very simple affairs which simply looked for pages with a targeted keyword and listed results based on simple algorithms. Once people started investigating the results generated by these search engines it became a relatively simple process of developing webpages designed specifically to exploit weaknesses in them. In the Mid 1990’s this was a common practice and as a result even now we see pages which have spammed keywords all through them in an attempt to out rank the opposition. If a page wanted to be indexed under specific search terms they would frequently display these terms in the same color as the background - making them visible to search engine spiders, but not to real surfers. This practice was common in gateway pages which showed up highly ranked in search engines, but had no purpose but to flow traffic to another page.

It’s amazing to think that Google only started in 1997, and in ten years have come to dominate nearly every corner of the internet. This domination was achieved largely through a search engine designed to see through these simple spamdexing tricks, and deliver the results people wanted to see. When they started the search engine market was dominated by MSN and YAHOO, both who have been playing catchup ever since the more advanced Google algorithms granted them a massive share of the search engine market.

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Spamdexing still exists in a variety of forms, but is less effective because of the importance search engines now place on delivering real relevancy. The whole search engine optimization industry has built up on the premise that it is possible to manipulate results in major search engine through a variety of factors. The kings amongst these factors are contents and links, with it being generally accepted that the more of both the better, provided the quality is good.

The negative side effect of this increased in search engine efficiency is that many websites are now built with the objective of gaining Search Engine Rankings, rather than usability or usefulness. This means email is not the only spam we sometimes have to deal with, but we may need to wade through several webpages before we find “the one we meant to get”.

With an estimated 70-90 billion spam messages sent every day, the problem is not going away. Don’t wait for someone to solve the problem for you, visit STOPSPAMNOW.info and download your free ebook on how to win the fight against spam.

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Spam filter’s objective is to clear your inbox from unwanted messages. This is primarily done by analyzing the received email and marking it as spam or legitimate. The analysis varies depending on the type of filter used – content-based filter, whitelist-blacklist filter, etc. Though spam filters vary in detecting spam, the important features are quite the same and true to all spam filters.

The primary feature of a spam filter is its capability to detect spam. Once a new message prompts, the filter gets alert and automatically checks if it is suspicious in nature. The checking could be based in the content, subject line, HTML code of the message, or the blacklist and whitelist embedded on the spam filter by the user. If the message is confirmed as spam it will be placed in a junk folder or deleted instantly, depending on the chosen option.

In addition, spam filters use point system. Messages coming from unknown senders are given corresponding points. This means that the higher the points the more ‘spammy’ the message is. This message is either blocked or deleted automatically depending on the scale given by the user, say 5 ‘spammy’ words or symbols in a message will cause it to be blocked (delivered in the junk folder) and 10 ‘spammy’ words or symbols will cause it to be deleted. But remember not all blocked emails are spam, some are legitimate.

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If your IP or email address is included in the blacklist, your emails will not be received unless you apply for whitelisting. Another feature of a spam filter is its ability to update blacklist and whitelist. If the address is not found in either the blacklist or the whitelist, the filter checks the message. Whenever the message is confirmed as spam, the email address on which that message came from is added to the blacklist. But if the message is accepted due to further actions done by the sender, to confirm his intention, the address is added to the whitelist database.

A lot of emails contain attachments where in some cases, unlikely graphics, pictures and messages are embedded. Spam filter can also check not only the message but as well as the files attached on it.

Now that you know what a spam filter is, its features and the ease it can give, you can purchase one to maintain a clean inbox. But if your problem is about ensuring email deliverability of your legitimate message, promotional or updates, then try visiting http://www.emailreach.com/

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Have you ever wondered just what sort of person sends spam? What type of person can nonchalantly annoy thousands of people every day and what is the gain for them? One of the biggest problems with spam is that it is a faceless crime - from both sides. To the spammer he has millions of faceless victims, he doesn’t really think of the millions of addresses he spams as people, and he doesn’t consider the aggravation his spamming causes. But it is also relatively faceless for us - the victim. We get upset at spam, but don’t make the next step to being upset at the spammer. This is perhaps a telling sign at how much we have come to accept spam as something that just happens. In this article I will discuss one of the most public cases made against a spammer in recent times.

The spammer being convicted was Jeremy Jaynes. During the time he operated Jaynes was said to have sent hundreds of thousands of messages per day using T1 internet connections based in Virginia USA. The mail lists he used were said to have been stolen from high profile sites such as AOL and Ebay, and targetted American webizens.

Although he was a resident of North carolina, he was charged and tried in leesburg, Virginia, as he used servers in that state. He was charged alongside his sister Jessica DeGroot and Richard Rutkowski. Rutkowski was found innocent, DeGroot was fined $7500, which was later overturned, but Jaynes was imprisoned for 9 years.

Jaynes emails promoted primarily work at home schemes selling in the area of $40 each, and while only a tiny fraction of replies were received from the millions of messages he sent, it is estimated the business earned him in the vicinity of $750,000 per month. Reports of the fortune he gathered during his period of activity estimate his spamming activities to have gained him some $24 million.

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Regretably this was enough to buy a very good defense team which successfully reduced the 15 year sentence sought by the prosecution, and take the trial through a lengthy appeals process. it wasn’t until September 6 2005 that the appeals court finally upheld the original sentence.

To be successful against spammers more examples need to be made of those who are caught. 9 years in jail is a significant start, but asset seizure and other methods need to be established. At least in those countries who have decided not to tolerate spam, the punishment for those convicted needs to be severe. Even if a spammer loses 9 years of their life behind bars (and let’s face it, good behaviour and all he’ll be out in 2) the feeling of vindication for spam victims is somewhat reduced if they leave jail to return to their multi-million dollar spam-gained fortunes. This will be a start in defeating spam, but the majority of spam messages originate from servers outside the US - China, Ukraine and Russia being the biggest offenders. Thus to make significant headway against the spam problem not only should countries such as the USA be strong in their stand against spammers, but they need to encourage the known problem countries to take the same stance.

Until unilateral state action is taken against spammers, it’s up to YOU to defend your inbox. Visit STOPSPAMNOW.info to download a free ebook telling you how!

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