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With
MaillWasher
you can easily create filters which sort your
genuine e-mail from all the junk, whilst it is still on the mail server
rather than after you have already downloaded it into your e-mail
program. MailWasher talks to an number of servers to
determine if any of the messages come from a known source of spam and
will notify you accordingly. Reporting spam is a breeze plus you get
the satisfaction of knowing that all spam will be sent back to its
source. If more more people returned spam to its source maybe the
additional costs of running a spamming organisation ie, extra bandwidth
etc then we would all see a reduction in the amount of spam that we
recieve.
Without
using
MailWasher it would be difficult for the average PC user to
reporting
spam manually and be truly pro-active in the fight against keeping your
mail boxes free. It is time consuming and you need to know how to trace
the
computer that the spam actually came from and then report the abuse to
the spammer’s internet service provider. To ease this process
there is
a free service that you can subscribe to which will report the spam
e-mail automatically for you. We strongly recommend that you check it
out. Go to Spamcop
now!
Some facts about spam taken
from Wikipedia
- 1978 - An e-mail spam is sent to
600 addresses.
- 1994
- First large-scale spam sent to 6000 newsgroups, reaching millions of
people.
- 2005
- (June) 30 billion per day
- 2006
- (June) 55 billion per day
- 2006
- (December) 85 billion per day
- 2007
- (February) 90 billion per day
Spam can be used to spread computer viruses, trojan horses or
other malicious software. The objective may be identity theft, or worse
(eg. advance fee fraud).
Some spam attempts to capitalise on human greed whilst other attempts
to use the victims inexperience with computer technology to trick them
(eg. Phishing).
If
you suspect that your computer is infected and would like us to remove
it for you, Contact us
Read our other top anti-spam tips here
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The
European Union's Internal Market Commission estimated in 2001 that
"junk e-mail" cost Internet users €10 billion per year
worldwide
