Email spam has been a problem on the Internet for a number of years now, and a number of anti spam programs on the market have come and gone by the wayside.

The war on spam is indeed an ongoing process. The good news is that we are winning the war. The federal government has cracked down on spammers and made it clear that spam will not be taken lightly anymore.

At one point a man was actually prosecuted and convicted of sending over 825 million spam emails. For this crime, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison which sounds great to me. Surely news like this will help to deter spammers, but there will always be those who feel like they\'re above the law.

The problem with spam is that it is sent anonymously from email addresses that have been stolen, and therefore are harder to track to the sender.

A friend of mine had her AOL screen name pirated and was being used to send thousands of spam emails. I\'m not sure how they got the password since they didn’t really explain this for me, but that is why so many people have decided that they aren’t going to deal with spam any more.

It isn\'t enough to merely delete spam; because once it\'s in your box then it has a chance to contaminate your system. You may open one inadvertently, and once is all it takes for the virus to kick in.

The bottom line here is that the anti spam solutions are out there. We have the technology now to never be worrying about spam again. All it will take is one person at a time being turned on to anti spam software. Some more tips is no to buy anything from these spam artists and to try to get it out of your inbox as soon as possible if you can.

Many email servers offer spam blocking such as Yahoo, MSN and Hotmail. You can use their services but also do not publish your email address if you can avoid it because that is how many spammers get it in the first place.

Another method that you can use to avoid having spam destroy your computer or life is for you to be able to avoid opening any forwarded emails because these could potentially carry viruses. Even if you are receiving a forward from a friend, it could have something in it that your friend doesn’t know about.

To be safe, you should just avoid them all together. Anti spam programs are everywhere you just need to choose the right one for you.