Why is spam blocking so poor? In an Internet industry that breeds programmers, why haven’t they been able to solve this problem? Spam, malicious emails containing viruses and all the other email downsides that security programs and others keep telling me, emails asking for all your details, from what you had for breakfast to the name of your bank, your mind, where do you live? and your zip code comes in from all over the world, including many from Nigeria along with spam trying to sell me anything from how to become a millionaire to how to make parts of me grow four inches longer to how to build a perpetual motion machine, they flood my computer every day. I personally know of two people that have been dealt savage blows when they have been conned into the get rich quick schemes promising them enormous amounts of cash to help money come from Nigeria and many more that buy expensive programs that will make them a fortune on the Internet.
In the last two years I have been using the Internet more and the amount of spam I experience has increased dramatically. Part of the reason for this may be because I am using the internet more, but I feel like spam and emails seeking information have increased during this period. This may be because I’ve been researching double strollers and jogging strollers for the website I’ve created, but now I spend more and more time cleaning my inbox and spam box of all kinds of junk that can’t be turned off, No. no matter what the legal position is on having the right to close the ones you don’t want. In fact, trying to tell them not to send you any more emails can actually make the situation worse. There must be a better way than simply erasing them, so that they reappear the next day.
As the global economy has shrunk, putting many people out of work, many have turned to trying to make a living on the Internet, Internet crime and fraud, along with lucrative deals offered by so-called gurus who tell us they can make us a fortune in two weeks. In fact, many of the fraudulent programs are created from programs that are sold to make money. Email list harvesting is an example of how an automated program can collect email lists for use by criminals, as well as make Internet entrepreneurs quickly rich. I’m not sure if it would be possible to make this collection illegal or if it could be policed if it were illegal, but if this were stopped it would go a long way in stopping the spread of spam.
The way Windows treats spam is absolutely useless and if the spam gets into the inbox and you tell Windows, with three clicks, to add it to your spam list, it disappears from the inbox and goes to the spam box, which means that you have to delete it again and still not be sure that it has been given the coup de grâce.
A program called spam fighter is pretty good at tackling both short-term and long-term spam problems. It asks you if you just want to remove it or if you want to add it to your ban list or your good list or send it to you if you’re hard core, all in one click as they collect the spam your customers say. it’s hard core spam and works around the world to try to hard core it and help shut down sites that abuse the system. The problem is that Windows doesn’t like anti-spam and removes your Outlook Express icon and makes it difficult for the normal user to recover. I think the program interferes with Outlook Express, but instead of fixing the problem, it starts it.
People of good mind send lists to all their friends around the world and ask them to send the list to everyone they know, to warn them about the spread of a so-called virus. I wonder if the person who started it all is waiting to collect the list gathered from hundreds of emails.
Until Windows, Macintosh and all other vendors come together and make a concerted attack on spam in all its forms, it will continue to breed and spread until the wonderful experience of surfing the web becomes a nightmare that, in time, , it could destroy the Internet or make it impossible for the average user to navigate to all the spam-laden sites on the World Wide Web.