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How You Can Avoid The New Dangers Of Spam
By Jeff Smith        [Hits: 29092]



Until recently, spam has been an annoyance, a definite \rload on your email system and network, a waste of productive\rtime and money, but we are about to find that the cost could\rget much higher.

Spam blockers are now becoming a necessity rather than an \roptional email utility, the reason is that spam is becoming\rmuch more dangerous.

Now, just like you, I looked into spam blocker software mainly\rbecause I didn't like being constantly bombarded with various\ranatomy enhancing messages or ironically, advertisements for\rspam blocker software itself.

A skeptical person may even wonder if this whole problem is \rnot rooted in the business model of lesser than honest spam \rblocker software companies - but that's another article.

Whatever the root cause, one fact is true, the spam problem is\rturning into a far more costly and dangerous issue that could\reffect you in profound ways.

The dangers are becoming so serious that we finally got serious\rabout reviewing spam blocker software - the result you can \rfind here: http://www.blockmorespam.com/spam_blocker_software.html

The evolution of spammers into 3 new and very dangerous areas\rhad me scambling to get serious about finding spam blocker \rsoftware and techniques that are more effective than what I've\rbeen using in the past.

The 3 new dangers that threaten you are:

1. Rise in hijacked and spoofed email addresses means that \rsomeone can make it look like their spamming campaign is \rcoming from your computer. The impact is that you could have\ryour internet connection terminated or put on hold by your\rISP - all without your knowledge. This raises the issue that\rspam needs to be blocked, ideally, in both directions - to \rensure you are not an unwilling accomplice to a malicious \rspam campaign

2. Convergence of viruses and spam. You are no doubt aware of\rthe nasty rise in viruses that end up impacting your PC in a \rnumber of harmful ways including slowing you system down, \rcrashing your system, logging your keystrokes, stealing private\rinformation, redirecting you to porn sites, etc... Now, in the\rpast the incidence of a virus travelling through email would be\rfairly predictable. That has changed with viruses working \rtogether with spam. An example is the SoBig virus whos purpose\rwas to create a broad spamming infrastructure by planting code\ron unwilling participants PCs creating a mass threat to email \rsecurity. This is just the tip of the iceburg, spam will \rincreasingly be used to spread and activate very dangerous \rviruses - for this reason alone, you need to be looking at\rspam blocker software.

3. Mix of spam and phishing. If you haven't heard of phishing\rbefore, it refers to the misleading emails you get dressing \rthemselves up to look like legitimate emails to get confidential,\roften financial, information from you. Some common examples are\rthe Paypal or Bank emails that claim you need to login with your\rprivate information to verify contact information or update \raccount information. In reality, this is a malicious third party\rthat steals your private information and can cause you MAJOR\ridentity and financial problems.

So what can we do about this?

It's time to get serious about spam blocker software - as a first\rline of defense. Regulation isn't working, while it is getting \rtougher and tougher to quickly decide what is spam and what is not\rin your inbox and as we have seen, the stakes are getting higher.

There are hundreds of shareware, freeware and otherware solutions\ron the market, the time for experimentation is over. In my trials\rof over 12 different spam blocker solutions, we found incredible\rvariance in the reliabiltiy, effectiveness leading to our finding\rthat there were only a small handful of serious spam blocker \rsolutions. For our findings, feel free to visit our review page\rover at: http://www.blockmorespam.com/spam_blocker_software.html

EzineArticles Expert Author Jeff Smith

Discover More About Stopping Dangerous Spam With Reviews, Spam\rBlocker Software, Anti-Spam Measures and More, Visit our Leading\rResouce Site Here: http://www.blockmorespam.com


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