Friday, April 18, 2008

Spam Attack

Spam has been threat for e-mail user; most of e-mail user didn’t realize the spam attack. Know how the spam runs, so all of you can prohibit it. Here some spam tricks how it works to your e-mail and enter in your computer:

1. Catch All Account. If you activate the catch all in setting mail server, all of e-mail will be accept although in valid or not address e-mail.
2. Open Relay. This is facility better inactive. With your open relay whoever can easily send with e-mail without had account on the domain. Certainly it’s will be used by spammer to send they spam.
3. Spam and Virus collaboration. When the computer infected by one of kind virus it’s will be control by spammer and the computer will be used for mail server to spread spam.
4. Mails address spoofing. The spam often used counterfeit e-mail address to deceive the e-mail user.
5. Image Based Spam. When spam send their spam often send not in text version but in image or picture so the spam remover didn’t know the content of message sent.
6. Challenge. Each sending e-mail you will get confirmation and it’ll response, so spammer often used this application to send their spam.


Now you have known how the spam tricks to enter your computer by e-mail. The advice please takes application to avoid the spam infected to your computer. Although the spam didn’t give direct fatal threat as virus which destroy the system of computer but it’s disturb enough.

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