How to get control of spam

More than 10.8 TRILLION spam messages will be sent out this year, according to a report from th IDC Market Intelligence firm. If you’ve had it with the share of junk e-mail you’ve been getting, there’s only one method for dealing with it: You need an anti-spam filter that uses Bayesian filters.

Bayesian filtering is like a robot for your Outlook e-mail box. It intelligently knows which e-mails you’ve received that are good and which are spam by using artificial intelligence and server blacklists. It makes sure good emails make it to your Inbox.

The anti-spam program I like the most for Windows machines is called SpamBully. It analyzes email so effectively that in many cases it is more accurate than filtering by hand.

The very first time you start SpamBully, its Bayesian spam filter will intelligently learn from your own personal e-mail habits, identifying good and spam messages.

Everytime you download your email, SpamBully will make sure good e-mails make it to your Inbox. Spam emails are sent to the “Spam” folder. E-mails SpamBully may have difficulty classifying, go to a special “Unsure” folder. You can always adjust emails in these folders by using the “Spam” and “Not Spam” buttons in the SpamBully toolbar.

You decide who and what makes it into your Inbox. Choose which e-mail addresses,words/phrases, countries, and IP’s are allowed or blocked from your Inbox. You do not need to add e-mails in your address book to your Allow/Block list. SpamBully already makes sure these addresses always make it to your Inbox.

Optionally you can just delete spam messages instead of sorting them to a spam folder. You never have to see a spam message again.

One of the reasons I like this program so much is because you can try it out for two weeks absolutely free. If you want to purchase it, it’s just $29.95 a year. That’s very reasonable for the amount of protection it delivers.

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Spam: How to get it under control

Spam now makes up 80 percent of all email. Put another way, only two of 10 emails are good. Fighting back can be daunting but I have some suggestions that can ease the burden on your in-box.

Spam is out of control. Guess how much junk mail has accumulated over a 30-day period with my PCMike e-mail address? Over 164,000. Now it used an old e-mail address that has been heavily linked on the Web and I allowed the spam to accumulate to demonstrate just how bad it is.

Here are my top three suggestions on how you can fight back against spammers.

1)First, never unless absolutely necessary, write out your e-mail address on the Web. Spammers have harvesting programs that capture them.

2) If you do have to post it, don’t use the “@” sign. Spell out the word AT and D-O-T for the dot com part to trick those harvesters.

3) Finally use an anti spam program that has a Bayesian filter. Bayesian filters detect spam through smart analysis and the programs actually learn and gets better over time.

There are two Bayesian spm programs I recommend.

Spam Bully is the best tool to block the spam that I’ve tried for Windows and PC users, especially those using Outlook.. For Mac users, I like Spam Sieve. These programs are easy to set up and powerful tools that identify and trap the spam and get it down to a manageable amount.

Spam can never be eradicated but if you follow my suggestions, you’ll get it under control.