Some of the warning signs of spam: 1. The message is an ad. 2. It's an ad for a product you don't want. 3. I1f2 y3o4u5 g6e7t8 a9n0 e1m2a3i4l5 t6h7a8t9 lpo1o2k3s4 l5i6k7e8 t9h0i1s2 i3t4 i5s6 p7r8o9b0a1b2l3y4 s5p6a7m8. 4. They are NOT advertising canned mystery meat.
either activate the spam filter in your mail account (google, or yahoo, or what have you), or download a spamfilter plugin for outlook express (or whatever you use). Google "spam filter".
It's a contraction of "spiced" and "ham" ie. principal ingredients to form a memorable product name. SPiced hAM equals SPAM.
Spam is made of lan jiao whereas luncheon meat is made of cheebye.
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Brad Templeton's nice summary of the history of spam (bulk unsolicited e-mail, not the Hormel meat product) at http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html says the first spam was in 1978 from DEC: http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamreact.html
Most people do care about computer spam. Computer spam is annoying and can harm your system.
how does spam work in the computer
Spam can be both! Spam can be sandwich meat and a type of e-mail that screws up your computer
It is used to filter out spam email. Spam email, when opened, can be very harmful to your computer, as it can unknowingly drop a virus onto your computer, or it can attempt to get information from you.
It can give your computer spam
Answer Spam hasn't really decreased that much, but now computer programs are available to delete them before they get to your computer..
Spam filters are not set up 'on a computer' they are set up on a mailbox or mail server, which is an application that runs under an operating system on a computer.
it can put a virus in your computer
The best options for avoiding spam is to have an anti spam or spyware software on your computer as well as properly flagging emails as spam or malware so that your email provider can improve their spam filters.
They have spam filtering, spam blocking, and also a malware scanner that scans all of your incoming email and discards any that show signs of containing viruses.
The Anti-Spam component is embedded in the mail client installed on your computer and scans incoming messages for spam. Therefore you'll be much safer.
Anti spam software protects agains computer threats. This could cover anything from a virus to a potential hacker attempting to do damage to your computer.