about e-mail SPAM The term spam has used just over 10 years ago in 1993. Today is synonymous impinge advertising, criminal ingenuity swindlers and slowed Software hackers. Spam is unsolicited e-mail advertising or otherwise, mass distributed people have not expressed a desire to receive it. In English the word spam means "preserved ham with sauce." And with electronic distribution is the word one associates English comedian series. In a series that word repeated enormous number of times. Therefore, the word has become a symbol of urgency. In the vast majority of spam is used for advertising. Usually, any advertised goods or services, sometimes for nakruchivaniya meters at the site, less for sending viruses. But there is a common goal - to bring their information to the largest possible number of recipients at the lowest cost. And the "authors" do not care about the composition of the audience, the main number. The largest flow of spam distributed via electronic mail (e-mail). Currently, the share of viruses and spam in the e-mail traffic was estimated at between 85 to 95%. Spammers collect e-mail addresses and using the robot, or sometimes by hand, using a Web page, conference Usenet, mailing lists, bulletin boards, books, chat program ... This robot can gather for hours and create thousands of addresses from a database for further distribution of it spam. Some companies are just collecting addresses, and then sell base. Spam is because the recipient's address in any way became known spamming. The main reason for the mail to reach the base of spammers is irresponsible indication of e-mail addresses in an open form, most often in the guest book forum personal card, etc. It is often such that sold to spammers to your post office or officer may former. Based on the above, which does not allow spammers know your email address? This is a difficult task, but some precautions can be taken. Most importantly, it should not be without a full guarantee of non publish your address on websites. You do not need to register to suspicious sites. If a useful site requires registration, you can specify a temporary address, which is not used in the future. Never respond to spam, and not jump on it contained references. Choosing the name of the e-mail should, if possible, to stop on a long and painful to guess name. Also, there is software to automatically identify spam, the so-called filters. Using this software, you reduce the risks of unwanted mail and likely virus to a minimum.