Introduction to SPAM

This entry is part 15 of 28 in the series Securing Your PC On the Internet

Posted Jan 16, 2008 | by Rich Menga  

Every one of us deal with it – we go to check our email and, along with the messages we want from business contacts, friends and family, we download a bunch of unsolicited email advertising. Things like porn sites, medications, low-interest loans, and even the long lost secret of an adventurous love life. It’s novel at first, but after, oh, a few seconds, it’s annoying. To some, it is simply an annoyance and stays that way. You simply delete the email and move on with your life. This is the usual procedure for people who use email mainly for personal use. But, those of us with email addresses that are pretty public have this problem in a huge way. If you use your email for business, then likely your email address is on at least a few mailing lists and on people’s address books. If you have had your email address for some time, its probably gotten worse. But, on the far end of the spectrum, there are those who run internet websites and whose email addresses are very public. Large companies and internet business actually waste a lot of time and money due to this problem.

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