Spam Shredder 1.9 Online Manual

Understanding Spam Shredder

The following topics explain what spam is and how Spam Shredder works. Information in How Spam Shredder Intercepts E-mail is important if you are using an e-mail client other than Outlook, Outlook Express, or Eudora. Your e-mail client is the e-mail software you use to send and receive e-mail messages.

Spam is unsolicited e-mail that you receive over the Internet. Also known as unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE), spam is like the marketing telephone calls you have received for years. Most spam contains advertising for one or more products or services. Some spam may include viruses, worms, or other malicious code either in the message itself or as an attachment.

Spammers (those who send spam) send millions of messages a day to Internet users all over the world. Spam clogs up e-mail servers and individual e-mail inboxes. To both save time and to avoid the possible dangers of spam, spam filters identify spam and separate spam from the "good" e-mail you want to receive.

You can set up Spam Shredder to detect spam and to either quarantine it or delete it permanently. Spam Shredder "learns" what types of e-mail you consider to be spam and improves its spam detection using a learning database. You can also add e-mail addresses to a blacklist (list of spammers) and to a whitelist (list of e-mail addresses you want to receive e-mail from).