What Is Spam Filters

Spam filters is another very effective way of combating spam or junk mail. These programs use some keywords like ‘guaranteed’, ‘free’, etc and block any email with those words in them.

The disadvantage of sometimes blocking even important mails from your contacts and preventing those senders from sending mails to your address again.

The way out is to use add-on spam filters which allow you to control the content that should be allowed into your inbox.

This will save you a lot of time and energy as you no longer will have go through each and every email before identifying it as spam and eliminating it.

Spam filters can be installed on any computer system. The aim is at filtering junk and getting only relevant information to the user.

Setting up a spam filter is just as simple and easy.

• Identify the section ‘filters’ in your email program and create a new filter.
• Lay down the rules or filter conditions for the new folder.
• These can be the parameters under which an email would be marked as spam and deleted from your inbox.
• If you choose to look at the filtered mail before deleting it, you can choose the option to move it to another folder once it is filtered.
• Once you save the changes you have made in the new filter, it will be active.

Variety of new spam filters in the market now you can choose from. An advance type called as ‘smarter filters’.

While these fight and prevent spam very effectively, setting it up is a very complex process and is recommended only for technical experts.

New generation spam filters are different from traditional ones.

• Statistical data approach rather features of spam.
• "Smart filters" decided about spam by analyzing the entire email and comparing it with other already identified spam mails.
• The margin for error of these filters is almost zero as more than 99% of scams are identified and eliminated through this method.