How To Avoid Spam
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How To Avoid Spam
When you join in any online group, websites or forums, they require your email address. Thus, some people often take advantage of this to advertise products or send junk mails. You will be certainly so angry when your email is full of spam. However, there are some small but useful tips that can help you avoid spam.
- Check your email address in a forum or a website; do not tick on the receiving information section or subscribe to newsletters which you do not want to receive. You can remove your email address from those sites.
- Do not open the spam mails and response to spammers. The information which they give can be wrong and your computer will be attacked by virus. You should be sure to update your anti-virus programs or use a firewall to protect viruses.
- You should have some emails which are used for several specific purposes such as an email for friends and family, an email for working partners, an email for receiving newsletters and other useful information… You can set up a public email address which you can use only for registering on forums, websites, chat rooms…
- When you post an entry in a web or forum, it should not include your email address. Do not click on spam links or subscribing links, you can receive a ton of spam from these.
- Search for your email address if it possibly exists in some websites which you do not know or not. Remove your email form those sites
- Use free spam filtering in your computer or anti-spam software to protect your email form junk mails.
- Change your email address if your old one is discovered by spammers
Some Anti-Spam Software
- MailWaher: this is free software which is used as spam filter. It can work with many types of emails (hotmail, gmail, window mail, outlook…) You can download this software in this site: http://www.mailwasher.net/
- SpamFighter: This software is simple and easy to use. You can download it here: Spamfighter Download
- Spam Sweeper: This software is famous for its simple interface and very simple to use. It can also protect a file which is attached from virus. You can download this software here: Spam Sweeper Download
