Should you use a spam blocker
Spams can be annoying and damaging if it contains virus and it tricks you into giving out your personal information like passwords and credit card information.
IDC a research analyst firm expects spam to be around 40 billion this year. This rise in spam is because of image based spam that can bypass anti spam filter. Spam can also spoof email sender identity. The major e- mail servers like yahoo and gmail have anti spam tools which automatically redirect spam from your inbox to spam folder. Hotmail has sender id email authentication technology which verifies the domain against the owner of the domain and intercepts unreliable messages.
There is no ideal spam filter that safeguards each one entirely, but anti spam software can help out. Some are free which can be downloaded from tucows.com and
www.download.com
Most popular free anti spam solution is spamfigher from www.spamfighter.com
If you can afford the major providers of established antivirus software Symantec has Norton 360 and Norton internet security 2007.Trend micro inter security 2007 has anti virus, firewall, home network control, spy ware protection, parental controls, wireless network monitoring-secure internet security 2007 recognizes phishing threats and filters them into a separate email folder.
