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Stop SPAM eMail Once & For All : Free Guide
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Why
Is Spam Such a Problem?
Spam can be a
lot more damaging than you might think. Obviously, they are
the most annoying thing that you can receive through your
inbox, but it goes deeper than that. If you are like the
millions of other internet email users, you know that sending
and receiving email is a free service that comes with your
internet service.
Internet service
providers are great for providing you with a way to send
letters to your friends and family while saving you the cost
of postage and envelopes. You can even send cards for free
with an email address. But don’t let the free service make
you think that you don’t actually have to pay for it. Let
me explain.
Internet service
providers and web hosts do not get their email services for
free. They have to pay for something that we do not have
to pay for as consumers. They have to pay for bandwidth.
That might not mean much to you, but for these companies,
it means that they are forced to produce mass emails, and
this means that their costs increase as well.
It may not seem
to be a matter for the mere consumer, but let me tell you
that this does affect you; here is how:
Since they are
forced to send mass emails, which in turn raise their costs
for service, you as the receiver are forced to pay more money
for you internet service. This in a way helps ISP’s to reduce
their overhead costs.
Some of the cheaper
ISPs like Net Zero help to cut their costs down by charging
outside company’s money to spam and add those annoying pop-ups
to your homepages. Since the advertisers are paying for their
pop-ups, you get a break on the cost of using them as an
ISP.
Other popular
companies use affiliations to assist them with keeping their
costs down, eventually leaving the consumer with a pretty
good rate. I’d prefer to use an ISP that simply goes for
the search engine affiliation as they have much better pop-up
prevention on their side, and they actually provide you with
a service.
What
Are the Dangers of Spam?
These are not
the only problems that accompany spam. They can also be used
by some spammers to put viruses, worms and Trojans into your
computer. I’m not saying that every company uses spam to
input viruses, but many of them do.
What you have
to know is that not all viruses are meant to shut you down
or crash your computer. Some are more to spy on you when
you are online. They are called spyware, and adware. This
is how some of these companies force you to go into their
websites every time you go into your search engine.
This is a very
popular way for spammers to get into your daily routine.
A lot of these types of spammers’ programs will attach themselves
to your computer’s operating system in a way that prevents
you from removing them because in getting rid of these programs,
you will ruin your computer’s ability to function properly.
It is an ingenious way of forcing their products and/or services
on you.
Many times when
this happens, you are forced to have to completely reboot
your computer and set it up again from scratch, which is
why it is always good to have a backup of all of your information
on disk, at least for the items that you cannot afford to
lose. A good resource to help you with this can be found
at http://www.viralbuzz.com/stop_email_spam.html
 
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