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- Simple Tips For Avoiding Your Emails Get Filtered By Spam Filters By : Jimmy Rafael
It seems that the advancements of antispam technology have been able to reduce many spam attempts. While this is a good news, this technology can result in some problems for many online marketers. This article deals with some simple methods to prevent your messages from getting filtered or blocked by such software. - Be Wary When Looking For A Good Spyware Remover! By : Muna Wa Wanjiru
If you regularly or even occasionally use the internet, chances are you’ve come across an annoying and malicious set of programs affectionately referred to by computer users as ‘spyware’. Like ‘adware’, spyware programs track your internet usage, collect personal information, spawn ‘pop-up’ advertisements, and can even alter your internet browser settings. Spyware generally refers the kinds of adware that are covertly installed onto your computer without your consent. - Google's Tag To Remove Content Spamming By : Danny Wirken
Content spamming, in its simplest form, is the taking of content from other sites that rank well on the search engines, and then either using it as-it-is or using a utility software like Articlebot to scramble the content to the point that it can't be detected with plagiarism software. In either case, your good, search-engine-friendly content is stolen and used, often as part of a doorway page, to draw the attention of the search engines away from you. - How To Know If It Is A Link Farm Spam Page By : Danny Wirken
A link farm is a network of sites that link to other sites for the sole purpose of increasing link popularity. This is when a website gets hundreds of links to unrelated sites in exchange for reciprocal links. This is termed as spamming and any website who relates to link farms is penalized by removal from a search engine’s index.
Backgrounder on Link Farms - Debunking Wordpress Comment Spam By : Danny Wirken
If you are a blogger, you are definitely familiar with those annoying comment spams. Imagine having to delete hundreds (not an exaggeration) of spam each time you log into your account. It is such an irritating task. You have to manually check which comments are spams and then delete them. If there are five or ten, it is fine. But if there are about hundreds or even thousands of them, it is downright exasperating, more so, time consuming. Not only do comment spam clutter up your blog but they also consume hosting space and thus cost you more money to run your blog. Luckily for WordPress users, they are assured of built-in tools and a gamut of WordPress defense plug-ins to combat comment spam.
Comment Spam - What Is Anti-spam Software By : A Singh
Before we learn about anti-spam software, we need to first know what is spam. To put it succinctly, spam is unsolicited and unwanted email. Other names for spam are Unsolicited Bulk Mail, Excessive Multi-Posting, and Unsolicited Commercial email, in addition to the more common - spam mail, bulk email or just junk mail. The advent of email brought in an era of instant communication, where information reaches our desktops, at negligible cost, and in no time at all, from across the globe.
Along with the benefits, came the negative aspects of email. For the multitudes of marketing hawks out there, this was an opportunity to send unsolicited promotions of their products, instantly, and at a very low cost. Today, spam has reached such monumental proportions that 10 out of every 13 emails (76.9%) we receive are spam, one way or the other. This is why anti-Spam filter has become a must have software for almost all PC users. - Features And Benefits Of Anti-spam Software By : A Singh
The best anti-spam software is the one that gives you your privacy. Ideally, an anti-spam device should be the one that delivers only the emails you want, and blocks 100 percent of the emails you do not want. This, though, is never going to be possible. Spammers are always one step ahead, and the manufacturers of anti-spam filter tries to catch up.
Most anti-spam solution can be customized to your needs, and only the approved emails come into your inbox. Such software always presumes that all the incoming emails are spam, and only allow those, from the people you know, to come in. - Choosing Anti-spam Software That Is Right For You By : A Singh
It is believed that on an average, an email user receives more than 2000 Spam emails every year! By certain accounts, an email user receives more than 77 percent of the mail as spam – which is around 10 out of every 13 emails you receive! More than two-thirds of the email passing through the air waves are pure junk – unwanted and unsolicited. It, therefore, becomes imperative that you chose the right anti-spam software that meets with your requirements.
Spam happens to be one of the biggest disadvantages of using communication channels through the Internet. There is every need to find ways to separate the wanted emails from the unwanted and unsolicited ones. Choosing the correct anti-spam software or Spam filter is the right way to cut down on the spam you receive. - The Basics Of Bayesian Spam Filtering By : A Singh
Bayesian spam filtering has become a popular way to distinguish between legitimate emails and illegitimate spam emails, through a process that uses Bayesian statistical methods. It filters emails by classifying documents into categories. Based on the contents of the message in your email, the Bayesian spam filters calculate the probability of the message being a spam. They are much more robust than the normal content based filters, and their anti spam approach hardly has false positives.
Normally when you receive an email, one look tells you whether the email is a spam or not. To your eyes, there is ‘zero’ probability of a spam looking like a good email. How would it be if spam filters, too, worked in the same way! - What Are The Chances Of Spammers Getting Past Bayesian Spam Filters? By : A Singh
Bayesian spam filters work by analyzing the contents of the email, and then calculating the probability of the message being spam. They analyze the characteristics of both, the legitimate mails as well as the spam mails. For the Bayesian spam filtering process, both, the characteristics of the legitimate mails as well as the spam mails are equally important. As it analyzes the mails, it keeps on building up a list of genuine as well as spam characteristics.
Once you have analyzed and classified the message as genuine or spam, it can be used to train the spam filters. Spammers would have a real bad time if spam filters can be specifically trained for individual users. They would have a hard time hoodwinking most people’s spam filters, and the spam filters would have the ability to adapt to whatever the spammers would try. - The Advantages Of Bayesian Spam Filters By : A Singh
Bayesian spam filtering technique is a great way of filtering out the spam from reaching your inbox. M. Sahami, S. Dumais, D. Heckerman, and E. Horvitz proposed this technique in “A Bayesian approach to filtering junk e-mail” in 1998, but until it was described in a paper by Paul Graham, in 2002, it gained no attention. Thereafter, it has become a great technique for distinguishing legitimate email from the illegitimate spam mail. Modern email programs use the Bayesian spam filtering techniques, and so do the server-side email filters, which at times, embed the function of the Bayesian spam filters within the mail server software itself.
The Bayesian spam filter works by analyzing and then calculating the probability of the contents in the email being spam. It self-builds a list of characteristics of spam as well as good elements in the message. Based on the analysis, the message is classified as spam or legitimate. After the message has been classified, the spam filter is further trained on a per-user basis. This is the advantage of Bayesian spam filters. - Warring On Spam Through Bayesian Spam Filters By : A Singh
Email spam has become a normal part of our lives. One just cannot use email without receiving unwanted emails in large numbers. Over the years, various methods have been utilized to eliminate this problem, such as keyword-based filters, source blacklists, signature blacklists, source verification - singly and in various combinations - but spammers have always succeeded in staying ahead of such technologies. Moreover, some of the methods have had their own shortcomings. The keyword filters are not very accurate, and along with the blacklists, need to be constantly updated.
Then 2002 saw a new technology come on the horizon that gave hope. Though first proposed by M. Sahami, S. Dumais, D. Heckerman, and E. Horvitz in “A Bayesian approach to filtering junk e-mail” in 1998, it caught everyone’s attention after a paper by Paul Graham in 2002. Bayesian spam filtering technology gave hope of inboxes that could be spam free. In very simple terms, this technology is based on Bayesian statistical methods where an email is assessed on the probability of its being either spam or legitimate. - Why You Should Never Buy From Spammers By : Gray Rollins -
If you use the internet, you’ve undoubtedly heard of Spamming. But do you actually know its true definition? Many people don’t, they just recognize the fact that it’s annoying and potentially bad. Well, what spam indexing actually is stems from web pages that are created so that a particular website’s ranking in search engine results increases. These web pages can be nothing more than garbage and phrases stuffed into the coding that will appear as legitimate information sources when someone performs a keyword search. Shameful, but true.
Now, a take-off from spam-dexing as they call it, is the practice of spam emailing. It is a method of sending multiple, duplicate emails out in massive amounts to numerous and unfortunate recipients. How do they reach your inbox? How do they even get your email address in the first place? From you clicking on some of the spam-dexed websites as described above, and then the next thing you know, spam is being sent to you through an automated system that tracks and follows visitors from those spam-dexed sites. - Spam Blockers: Unique Challenge For Business By : Scott Lindsay -
“Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.” — Roger Ebert
The use of email has the potential to eliminate much of the costs associated with sending correspondence through regular mail. Invoices can be sent by email speeding up the payment process. Email can also connect individuals on a global basis in ways that have not been possible in the past. - Agree To Be Spam-Free By : Scott Lindsay -
Spending on commercial email ballooned to $7.3 billion in 2005 from $164 million in 1999.” - Jupiter Communications
The use of email is an important tool in maintaining positive client relationships. Some emails are sent individually and personally, however some are sent in bulk and that’s when difficulties show up for business interests. - The Economics Of Spam By : Sam Vaknin
Tennessee resident K. C. "Khan" Smith owes the internet service provider EarthLink $24 million. According to the CNN, in August 2001 he was slapped with a lawsuit accusing him of violating federal and state Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statutes, the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1984, the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 and numerous other state laws. On July 19, 2002 - having failed to appear in court - the judge ruled against him. Mr. Smith is a spammer.
Brightmail, a vendor of e-mail filters and anti-spam applications warned that close to 5 million spam "attacks" or "bursts" occurred in June 2002 and that spam has mushroomed 450 percent since June 2001. This pace continued unabated well into the beginning of 2004 when the introduction of spam filters began to take effect. PC World concurs. - Finding An Email Spam Filter That Works By : Morgan Hamilton
Do you spend most of your time in front of a computer? If you do, then you belong to the millions of other individuals who work with a computer in this day and age. A lot of people are now using computers to do a variety of tasks for a company or privately owned business.
However, people who go to great lengths to create trash that we don't want anything to do with also exist. You’ve probably figured out that the trash I'm referring to is formally known as spam. There’s a good chance that find a lot of them in your inbox every morning. It’s almost impossible to avoid them unless you have a new-age email spam filter on your computer.
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