Spam : An Overview

January 7th, 2009 Posted in Spam Info

In today’s fake world of antivirus and anti spyware products ,cyber community is facing great challenge before security trends and most critical factors before security experts is how to minimize spam level in the internet traffic around the world.
Certainly Part of the problem is how we measure the process of e-mail quality, How we can ensure spam free inbox? How we number sure the game of counts those correctly trapped, those incorrectly trapped, and those incorrectly passed emails messages or anti spam messages.

There fore typical anti spam technology invoice and integrated with good spam fighting technique with complete eradication of spams and spam networks is certainly seems need of the hour.
So let us discuss some of the concept of spam
,AS the word Indicates ” Spam” which means abuse. Spam is anonymous, unsolicited bulk email. In fact term spam also suggests sending same email or message to to large no of internet users .Spam is often used by companies offering questionable products, get-rich-quick schemes or illegal services or websites or untrusted site or links.

Gen rally spam targets forums,blogs and sites , which causes direct loses to site owners and heavy burden to administrators and moderators.
As per spam cost is concern, it takes least pain to send any message from senders end point but it cost very dearly to receiver ends i.e free invitation of viruses and then only watch the show of disasters .More over spammers love to anchor spam message by means of some useful subject lines to attract the common cyber citizen.

Gen rally spam can be defined and categorized respect to internet user & how it impacts cyber community .

-Cancellable Usenet spam :

It is a single message sent to 20 or more Usenet newsgroups. (Usenet spam is aimed at “lurkers”, people who read newsgroups but rarely or never post and give their address away. Usenet spam robs users of the utility of the newsgroups by overwhelming them with a barrage of advertising or other irrelevant posts.

-Email spam :

Email spam refers to spam email that is directed at individual users with direct addresses; email spam lists are usually created by scanning usenet postings, sterling Internet mailing lists or searching the Web for addresses. A variant of this form of spam is sent directly to mailing lists and email discussions that are used by public and private forums. Email spam costs individuals submitting spam email money; for example, ISPs and online services need to pay to transmit spam directly to subscribers.

Apart from above parameters ” spam” also considers the following points to be best known :

Anonymity: the sender’s identity and address are concealed respect to email message.

Mass mailing or Bulk Mailing : It is money making concept for spammers .Spam email is sent to a large number of recipients and in high quantities or in bulk.

unsolicited Practice : This class can be classified into mailing list, advertisement ,sometimes refers to both legitimate mail and spam message thus it means the individuals receiving spam would otherwise not have opted to receive it

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