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Figure 27-21 Malwarebytes

Spam E-mail that arrives in your Inbox from a source that’s not a friend,

family member, or colleague, and that you didn’t ask for, can create huge

problems for you and your computer. This unsolicited e-mail, called spam,

accounts for a huge percentage of traffic on the Internet. Spam comes in

many flavors, from legitimate businesses trying to sell you real products to

scammers who just want to take your money. Hoaxes, pornography, and getrich-quick

schemes pour into the Inboxes of most e-mail users. They waste

your time and can easily offend.

You can use several options to cope with the flood of spam. The first

option is defense. Never post your e-mail address on the Internet. Spammers

crawl the Web looking for e-mail addresses posted out in the open.

Filters and e-mail filtering software can block spam at your mail server

and at your computer. Gmail has powerful blocking schemes, for example,

that drop the average spam received by its subscribers by a large percentage,

usually more than 90 percent. You can set most e-mail programs to block e-

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