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Spam Protection: PDF Spam and Protecting Your kids

Spammers are increasingly using PDF files to bear their spam messages. This practice begun in mid-2007, primarily as a scam to fool recipients into investing their money in the stock of a particular company of their choice.

The advent and decline of the different types of spam attest to the cat-and-mouse game that goes on between the spammers and the security experts. As anti-spam technology catches up to their techniques, they continue to innovate and change tactics to deliver their spam messages.

You're Kids Protection

Today, many children have an email address that they use to email their friends, submit homework, etc. It is a fun, inexpensive and instant way to keep in touch. However, as the volume of spam keeps rising, the need to protect children from the dangers of spam is a growing concern.

Email Filters - Your email service comes with email filters built in. You can use these to filter your child's email into specific folders, and filter spam into the trash folder. This involves setting up rules that your email program will follow in determining what action to take on incoming messages: to let it through to the inbox, send it to trash or to block the sender.

Web beacons: A web beacon, also called an "invisible GIF," is an image sent out with spam that is invisible to the recipient. When the email is opened, the spammer will be alerted that your email address is "live."

It is very important to educate your children on the dangers of spam and how to handle it if they do receive any in their inbox.

By: Marco Maseko

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