CARA MUDAH MENGATASI SPAM

CARA MUDAH MENGATASI SPAM

CARA MUDAH MENGATASI SPAM

Spam mail adalah salah satu hal paling mengganggu dan dibenci di dunia ini, di mana email spam biasanya mengandungi virus, spyware & iklan Viagra yang sangat tidak menyenangkan. Jika anda sering mendapatkan email yang berisi spamtersebut, cara mudah dan percuma untuk mengurangi atau menghentikan spamyang anda terima ialah dengan mengubah atau menggunakan perkhidmatan emailGoogle Mail atau Yahoo Mail.

Kedua-dua perkhidmatan percuma ini memiliki perlindungan spam yang baik, walaupun beberapa spam dapat terlepas. Anda hanya perlu menekan butang “mark as spam” dan secara automatik anda tidak akan menerima email dari sumber tersebut lagi di masa hadapan. Walaupun mengubah atau menggunakan email percuma bukanlah idea yang baik, namun ini cukup hebat jika anda hanya menggunakannya untuk menghubungi keluarga atau teman terdekat yang jarang dihubungi. Jangan lupa juga untuk melakukan pemeriksaan terhadap spam filter anda, kerana ia sering juga menghapus email yang ingin anda baca.

MailWasher (Freeware)

Mailwasher sangat ideal jika anda menggunakan software berasaskan desktop untuk membuka email (seperti Outlook Express). Aplikasi ini percuma dan mudah untuk dipasang, anda dapat membuat blacklist untuk menyaring email yang tidak diinginkan. Kelemahan dari freeware ini adalah ia hanya terhad untuk satu akaun email sahaja. Jadi jika anda memiliki banyak akaun POP3, perisian ini mungkin kurang sesuai untuk anda gunakan.

Sumber : http://www.rahsiakomputer.com/category/spam/

What is spam?

Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. Spam costs the sender very little to send -- most of the costs are paid for by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender.

There are two main types of spam, and they have different effects on Internet users. Cancellable Usenet spam is a single message sent to 20 or more Usenet newsgroups. (Through long experience, Usenet users have found that any message posted to so many newsgroups is often not relevant to most or all of them.) Usenet spam is aimed at "lurkers", people who read newsgroups but rarely or never post and give their address away. Usenet spam robs users of the utility of the newsgroups by overwhelming them with a barrage of advertising or other irrelevant posts. Furthermore, Usenet spam subverts the ability of system administrators and owners to manage the topics they accept on their systems.

Email spam targets individual users with direct mail messages. Email spam lists are often created by scanning Usenet postings, stealing Internet mailing lists, or searching the Web for addresses. Email spams typically cost users money out-of-pocket to receive. Many people - anyone with measured phone service - read or receive their mail while the meter is running, so to speak. Spam costs them additional money. On top of that, it costs money for ISPs and online services to transmit spam, and these costs are transmitted directly to subscribers.

One particularly nasty variant of email spam is sending spam to mailing lists (public or private email discussion forums.) Because many mailing lists limit activity to their subscribers, spammers will use automated tools to subscribe to as many mailing lists as possible, so that they can grab the lists of addresses, or use the mailing list as a direct target for their attacks.

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