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8.3. Anti-Spam
Spam refers to unsolicited e-mail, mostly advertising a product or service that is mass
mailed to a huge number of e-mail addresses at a time, filling recipients’ mail boxes.
Spam does not refer to legitimate commercial e-mail for which consumers have given
their consent. Spam is not only annoying, but also can often be a source of scams,
viruses or offensive content.
8.3.1. Anti-Spam Principles
AVG Anti-Spam
checks all incoming e-mail messages and marks unwanted e-mails as
spam.
AVG Anti-Spam
can modify the subject of the email (
that has been identified
as spam
) by adding a special text string. Then you can then easily filter your emails in
your email client.
AVG Anti-Spam
component uses several analyzing methods to process each e-mail
message, offering maximum possible protection against unwanted e-mail messages.
AVG Anti-Spam
uses a regularly updated database for the detection of spam. It is
also possible to use
RBL servers
(
public databases of "known spammer" email
addresses
) and to manually add email addresses to your
Whitelist
(
never mark as
spam
) and
Blacklist
(
always mark as spam
).
8.3.2. Anti-Spam Interface
In the
Anti-Spam
component's dialog you will find a brief text describing the
component's functionality, information on its current status (
Anti-Spam component is
active.
), and the following statistics:
·
Database release
- specifies when and at what time the spam database was
updated and published
