Windows 8 In Depth

Use Spam Filtering

Despite good faith and antispam tactics, an email address will eventually receive some spam. Spammers might be innovative, but equally innovative people are at work preventing spam from taking valuable time away from your life. Spam filters analyze email and relegate spam to a “junk mail” folder or the like. They use various methods, including some similar to other antimalware programs, to detect and get rid of spam before it hits your inbox. All online email service providers, such as Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, and so on, provide free spam filtering as a matter of their own survival as much as for good customer service. Filtering spam at the server level is actually more effective than filtering it in your own computer, ...