|  Spam. 
              How to fight it. Released on 
              = May 30, 2005, 1:38 am  Press Release 
              Author = SoftInform  Industry = Computers 
               Press Release 
              Summary = New spam-blocking application by SoftInform company - 
              Spam Blocker – enables maximum efficiency by guarding the 
              user computer (his/her mail box to be more specific) from spam flows, 
              saving money and time on viewing useless messages and paying for 
              the “mail advertisements” traffic.  Press Release 
              Body = Spam. How to fight it.Internet is flooded today with undesirable advertising letters also 
              known as spam. Both for an ordinary user connecting to Internet 
              via dialup and for various
 companies paying for the dedicated line or using DSL spam equals 
              wasted megabytes of information. The megabytes, which are paid for. 
              And time, wasted on viewing advertising offers of unnecessary things 
              or services. Currently there are a lot of ways to guard your email 
              box against unceasing attacks of “Viagra”, tourist reservations, 
              commercial seminars and the best “windows and doors” 
              in the world, which can be bought cheaply and simply. One of the 
              cures could
 be changing the email account. But this is by no means a panacea: 
              in a while the new box will be displaying nonsense newsletters from 
              all over the world. You can of course use the server-inbuilt filters 
              or paid resources which try to minimize the spam flow, letting through 
              just the letters from “authorized addressers”. But the 
              server filters block just a small part of proposals to “enlarge” 
              or “relax”. And the
 powerful “authorization” protection is, first, expensive 
              (plus a monthly fee), and second, is very inconvenient for people 
              on the contact-list (they have to undergo a
 lengthy “authorization” procedure).
 Ideal filterTo clean the mail account from spam a universal anti-advertising 
              shield is needed which will save the money otherwise wasted on downloading 
              weighty letters traffic and the time otherwise lost on viewing and 
              deleting them. Such a shield is the programs which remotely check 
              the mail in the user box without uploading them and block unwanted 
              letters immediately at the server. Such programs are many. They 
              differ in interface and functionality, but have one thing in common: 
              obligatory check of email at the server. Without this feature there 
              would be no sense in the blockers at all. To upload messages and 
              check them locally is not a big deal. The applications differ in 
              their settings, spam filtering ways, speed of work and different 
              features enabling maximum efficiency. The most wide-spread way of 
              blocking spam is by letter headings and continuously updated list 
              of “illegitimate” addresses, which are known as harmful 
              advertisements distributors. What should an ideal spam blocking 
              application be like? First, it should cope with its primary duties 
              flawlessly. Second, it should have a nice interface, be simple to 
              tune and work autonomously. Third, it shouldn’t prevent normal 
              functioning of other programs, mail clients in particular. Let’s 
              look into the interior side of a
 spam-blocking application and decipher the underlying basics.
 Spam-blocking 
              principlesUsually the application downloads message headers which undergo 
              “partial enquiry”. Depending on the functionality of 
              a certain “tool”, filtering is conducted by fields (header, 
              sender, addressee etc.), black and white lists of electronic addresses 
              in the database and a wider list of recognized spam generating servers. 
              For checking lists are used, either created by developers or edited 
              by users. Undoubtedly, the
 more thorough the home-made spam-blocking provisions, the better, 
              but ideal work cannot be achieved without proper tuning of blocking 
              and filtering rules. Of course a user setting the most rigid rules 
              risks losing with the blocked spam useful and
 harmless letters. But in any case, it’s a private decision. 
              Apart from preinstalled blocking rules, user can make his/her own 
              corrections, such as widening the “dangerous server” 
              lists, editing black and white lists and creating his/her own lists 
              conforming to certain rules (for instance, taking into account
 letter size plus filtering from “that particular left-most 
              Korean server list). On installing the application and adjusting 
              its settings (or you can leave everything
 as it is) and initial workability check, one can make a final decision 
              concerning fitness of the filter for further use. It remains to 
              decide which application to
 select.
 SoftInform Spam 
              Blocker New spam-blocking application by SoftInform company - Spam Blocker 
              – enables maximum efficiency by guarding the user computer 
              (his/her mail box to be more specific) from spam flows, saving money 
              and time on viewing useless messages and paying for the
 “mail advertisements” traffic. As a universal spam blocking 
              tool Spam Blocker possesses indefeasible advantages compared to 
              analogical applications. High quality (blocking 85 to 100% of spam), 
              simple, exquisite and friendly interface, flexibility of settings 
              make SoftInform newly released application the best in its class.
 Are you not 
              tired of endless spam? Have you lost track of newly registered (“clean”) 
              accounts? Dozens of letters daily burn you and your company megabytes 
              of far from free traffic? All you need to do is to install Spam 
              Blocker, in such a way ridding your computer from persistent and 
              useless e-mail advertising.  You can download 
              the Spam Blocker trial version here:http://spam-locker.adscleaner.com/download/spamblocker.exe
 Additional information is here: http://spam-blocker.adscleaner.com 
              All the questions address to max@offliner.com
 Web Site = http://spam-blocker.adscleaner.com 
               Contact Details 
              = max@offliner.com   
              
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