Spam detection is usually performed once at the level of the email provider thanks to the pre-installed filters, and secondly it can be enabled by the installation of an additional spam blocker. Spam detection has become a necessity because the number of unsolicited mail messages is on the rise. Although punishable by law, the action of spamming is conducted by very many dishonest businesses that use the world wide wed to hide their identity and dupe as many people as possible. For the moment, there are just two main ways to limit junk mail: spam prevention and spam detection.
Spam prevention is pretty basic: do not disclose your email address easily. This means that you must not enter the email address on web pages that require registration; better get a secondary address and use that for the purpose. Do not answer emails whose sender you do not know, and most important do not forward messages such as jokes, warnings and other kinds of messages that allow for the accumulation of large numbers of email addresses. Spam detection on the other hand can be performed on the personal computer or on the server, and in both cases it requires the installation of some software blocking tools.
Filters and blockers perform spam detection. Filters on the other hand organize all the possible spam messages for the computer user to check and eventually delete or confirm as not-spam. Blockers on the other hand perform spam detection and cleaning without allowing the access to the personal computer. When the anti-spam software is installed on the server, things are even better because the viewing of the emails with a spam potential is possible without their being transferred in the computer memory. Spam detection is now possible on the basis of the sender’s ID, the keywords specific to spamming and several other criteria integrated in the technology.
Just as the spam detection means constantly improve, so do the spammers’ strategies to fool blockers and filters and get into people’s mail box. The truth is that so far, no software program has been invented to actually detect and stop spam 100%. It is also not known whether things will ever be different for the matter and whether there will be more than 99% anti-spam protection available. If kept at this level, spam is not that much a problem, on condition that you don’t open mails from strangers that somehow manage to pass the most advanced anti-spam tool.
