It is estimated that more than 95% of all the emails that are sent daily is spam. Companies are receiving massive amounts of spam which in turn creates a lot of productivity loss.
In the beginning spam was unsolicited advertising, now a days it has become an convenient and effective way for criminals to distribute malware, viruses, Trojan horses, root kits, and email worms.
Spammers are also sending emails claiming to be from financial institutions or the government in order to obtain your confidential information, this is called phishing and this criminal will do anything to look legitimate.
By opening an email you can
be giving your identity and personal information to a criminal.
The solution for this problem is to install a Email spam blocker.
The earlier spam blockers were very basic, they had a list of bad words and they checked every email against that list, and if one of the bad words was found the email were filtered, but the software did not check the sender or the context of the email, so the earlier spam fighter software were not really effective, and to top it all they were hard to configure.
Now a day’s anti spam software can check for word usage and patters, they check the senders and the context of the email which has increased the detection
of spam to more than 99%, and the Email spam blockers are now easier to install and configure.
Here I will help you decide which one is the best spam blocker program for you, you will not have to spend more time deleting junk email.
The methods that we will use to fight spam depend if you are reading your email with a dedicated email client such as Microsoft Outlook, Windows Mails or Thunderbird, or if you are using a webmail application such as hotmail, yahoo mail, or Gmail.
The protocol that is used to send and receive mail is also important we will need to know if we are using IMAP or POP3.
