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A good portion, if not the majority of email traffic on the internet today is spam related. The subject matter of spam emails can include discounted Viagra, inexpensive Rolex watches, a surprise inheritance and any other type of scam imaginable. If your email address is more than a few years old or even only a few months, it is inevitable the spam will find its way into your in-box. You are not without hope though. The following tips and suggestions can help alleviate the influx of spam email messages.

The paper will provide an analysis of many modern anti-anti-spam techniques, accompanied by statistical reports and real-life examples. It will also outline some possible approaches to combat these often highly effective and thus increasingly ‘popular’ spam techniques. Although Internet spamming has been with us since as early as 1978 it first became more than a minor annoyance around September 1993, when America Online released AOL for Windows and the exponential expansion of the Internet began. At first, and for years subsequently, Usenet- and then email-based spam was very simple, consisting of unvarying ASCII messages sent from a limited number of IP addresses. Such simple ‘plain text’ spam required correspondingly unsophisticated approaches to blocking it. Content-based techniques such as keyword scanning and straightforward hashes (or ‘signatures’) over the message body were very effective, and at the connection level IP blocklist pioneers such as Spamhaus and MAPS helped turn spammers away before they could even ring the doorbell.

If you are signed up with one of the many free email providers, be sure to enable any provided spam filtering services. If you download your emails to an email client on your computer like Outlook or Outlook Express, consider installing spam filtering software that integrates with Outlook and other email clients.

In a business environment, email services are often hosted in house or outsourced. An organization or business may also want to standardize their email address format in a way that makes it harder for spammers to guess or discover legitimate email addresses.

Another good option for organizations that have a high volume of inbound emails is to enlist with an external to the organization spam filtering gateway service. This type of service receives all inbound emails and filters it before passing it on, majority spam free, to the final destination. An alternative to an external gateway spam filtering service would be to install spam filtering capabilities internally.

Lastly, make sure to implement safe computing practices on home or work computers. Ensure that anti-spyware or antivirus software is always installed and up to date. Encourage friends and colleagues to do the same to help prevent your email address from being harvested from a contact or address list on their computers via a backdoor Trojan or virus.

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