SPAM – It’s effects and what to do – Part 1

Serious, Painful, Aggravating Messages that you get via email, blog sites, web sites and where ever else you can get electronic messages. How’s that for an acronym? Let’s begin by talking about the first word in this acronym -

Serious: I call it serious, because, spam can be serious especially if a system gets bogged down with it, such as an attack. Those on the other side of the fence care not about those that it effects except for their own gain.

Painful: It can be painful in addition to being serious for about the same reasons and what needs to be done at times to purge it. Sometimes spam can contain Trojans or other harmful items of serious nature. I used to work for a data center, and for a time, some of the systems were not sufficiently defended against various issues. One time after an innocent email was sent, which unknowingly to all parties of concern contained a virus that crashed one of the main PCs.

Aggravating: It gets old after a while when you constantly get spam.

Messages: S.P.A.M. can come in different electronic forms. Sometimes appearing very innocent to the unsuspecting user.

I will admit that there is probably innocent forms of spam not meant to be harmful to anyone. This type would most likely fall under the “aggravating” category.

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Concerning this blog:

I’ve been faithfully reviewing, moderating and updating this blog each week as best as I can and there are times that I see spam come in that contains useful information that is intended to be of a good nature. The problem is that the information does not conform to the focus of this blog and ends up being deleted. This is not a medical site, but a blog for all PC users concerning with PC issues. There are times that I think some people waste a lot of time entering information in some sections of this blog. It’s a shame that it wasn’t in focus with this blog, otherwise, wow. Now, on the other hand, there has been a lot of spam that has absolutely no useful content at all. I won’t go into details, except to say that it was just not appropriate.
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The purpose of this post is to provide information concerning S.P.A.M.

Please see also the following links that I found on the Internet:

1. Email Spam
2. Spam in Blogs
3. Gates on the effect of spam
4. The emotional effects of spam

For a free download of spam blocking software click here. I haven’t reviewed or tested this software.

In addition to the above information, please also see my Spam Policy as it refers to my blogs.

More to come in part 2 (of 3)