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(Can't wait, click here to go straight to download the ParetoLogic Spam Controls trial software.) This article first defines what spam email is and then explains how to control spam e-mail on your PC. Spam e-mail is also known as bulk or junk e-mail and is unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant, or inappropriate emails, especially commercial advertising emails sent in very large quantities i.e. thousands or millions of the same email. If you receive spam email it usually indicates that that you have supplied you email address to someone who may have then sold on your email address to some other group. You may also just receive a spam email as a result of the sender generating likely email addresses. Some basic steps to avoid receiving spam emails are: 1. Only give your email address to those people or organisations you trust. 2. Ideally never open a spam email and definitely never reply to spam email or use any unsubscribe option in the email, as all this does is confirm that your email address works and hence they may send you more spam emails. 3. Set your email program like Microsoft Outlook Express to not display the “Preview Panel” (See Menu item View – Layout…) because just opening a spam email might be enough to send information back to the sender that your email address is valid. Another tip is to setup an extra email address that you will be happy to drop if you start receiving spam emails to that address. You then use your main email address to friends, family and business and the extra one for everything else such as registering with websites etc. In this way you main email address is less likely to get spam emails and you could always replace the extra one with a new email address. If you are receiving spam emails and wish to keep your current email address, then you will need to scan your incoming emails with some spam control software. Such spam control software must be easy to install and then must detect and quarantine any spam emails. The spam email detection techniques must give a low false positive spam email detections i.e. it should rarely detect a valid email as spam. Usually the detected spam emails are placed in a spam email folder within your email program such as Outlook. You can then look at the list of emails in this folder just to check that none look like valid emails (remembering item 3 above). The spam control software should then allow you to delete all the spam emails in that folder. An example of Spam Control software which is suitable for use with Outlook and Outlook Express is ParetoLogic Spam Controls. ParetoLogic Spam Controls is a good defence against unwanted email intrusion. It utilises modern technology and detection methods, which has one of the highest spam detections in the industry. Unlike traditional and outdated spam filters, ParetoLogic Spam Controls is equipped to detect even the most sophisticated and evasive threats, including those composed in text, html, and graphics. It also has reliable spam detection with an accuracy rate of 97%.
The software is easy to install and integrates well with your email client application (Outlook or Outlook Express). There are no complicated rules to setup and manage. There are dialogs that come up to assist you when you first get started that you can choose to not be displayed again. You can scan all your emails in the Inbox or any of its subfolders. You can perform a scan of your entire Inbox folder or for any folder within the Inbox. Afterwards a summary is displayed.
You can add senders of emails to your Block List so that the emails they send are automatically placed in the Spam folder. You can also easily import all your contacts to the Allow List to ensure that the emails they send will automatically be placed in the Inbox folder.
You can purge all messages in your Spam Controls folder and have them sent to the Deleted Items folder. You can also schedule a purge to run automatically.
ParetoLogic Spam Controls registered customers can receive assistance from the ParetoLogic technical support team and free automatic spam database updates for the life of their subscription. To down load a trial copy of this software click here to go to ParetoLogic Spam Controls.
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