I'm new to computers. What is spam and what are cookies?
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Spam is really just a fancy word for junk e-mail. It can be dangerous because some contain viruses. If you do not know the originator of an email or are not sure if you can trust them, never open an e-mail attachment from them.\n\nA cookies is a small file that a web server writes to your disk drive. They can contain info about you, such as user login names and passwords. The web server uses this information for automated login. But, they have a negative side as well, depending on how you feel about privacy. Cookies allow a web site to store information about you, like tracking where you go on the web. You can remove all the cookies on your computer to save disk space by performing a disk cleanup or manually deleting all the cookies in your cookie file.
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Cookies on Internet? Simple It's a code recognized by the domain to remmber your computer nextym you visit the site, so you won't have to type the same old lines again ec ur usernames and addrs... Goodluck.. =)
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Block it by marking it as SPAM
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Everyone else answered your first and last question, so you should know what spam is now.\n\nThe most important question, "How to avoid it," has not been answered, and most people don't seem to figure it out, and would rather waste their time fighting it and installing new software and doing "maintenance."\n\nThe best way to do away with spam, is to open a second email account, and never, ever, ever sign up online for anything on the internet with that account. \n\nNow that the internet folks have your email address, it will only get worse as they sell your information to others, pass it around, trade it for other information, and generally expand the proliferation of your email address.\n\nAlmost all ISP's offer multiple email addresses, or you can get a freebie from Yahoo or MSN or whatever. \n\nNot only the "best" way, but the only way to do away with spam is to create a clean email account, and don't give it away to people you don't know. Nobody can use your email that you don't give it to. Use your spammed account to chat or join rss feeds or groups.\n\nGood luck fighting the old account. It's a losing battle.\n\nIncidentally, I have an email account I use strictly for my business that has never received one email I didn't want; not one piece of spam in over a year. What a pleasure it is to use, when you know waiting email is something you need or want. No more time wasted for unneccessary "maintenance" and fiddling with filters and blockers and the latest new spam program.
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A message given to a Web browser by a Web server. The browser stores the message in a text file. The message is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. \n\nThe main purpose of cookies is to identify users and possibly prepare customized Web pages for them. When you enter a Web site using cookies, you may be asked to fill out a form providing such information as your name and interests. This information is packaged into a cookie and sent to your Web browser which stores it for later use. The next time you go to the same Web site, your browser will send the cookie to the Web server. The server can use this information to present you with custom Web pages. So, for example, instead of seeing just a generic welcome page you might see a welcome page with your name on it. \n\nThe name cookie derives from UNIX objects called magic cookies. These are tokens that are attached to a user or program and change depending on the areas entered by the user or program. \n\n\nThey are perfectly safe\n\nProof:\nhttp://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=are+cookies+safe&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
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A virus is a malicious piece of software they infects your computer.  It can range from just an annoyance to a program that deletes files off your hard drive.  A worm is a virus that replicates itselfs and sends itself out to toher computers.  It may gather all email addresses on your computer and send itself out to all of them without your knowledge.  SPAM is unsolicited junk email.\n\nAVG has a free anti-virus programs: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1/\n\nhttp://free.grisoft.com/doc/1/
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its an anti spam program http://www.spamsubtract.com/hp/
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being spammed means you get alot of by-product like spam.  On the internet, being spammed means you get alot of crap that come in the form of emails, chat or any other type of content overload you could think of.
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The word "Spam" as applied to Email means Unsolicited Bulk Email ("UBE").\n\nUnsolicited means that the Recipient has not granted verifiable permission for the message to be sent. Bulk means that the message is sent as part of a larger collection of messages, all having substantively identical content.\n \n A message is Spam only if it is both Unsolicited and Bulk.
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go to ytmnd.com, they explain it, check wikipedia.org\n\nThey ask to have cookies enabled, cookies may contain spyware, but unless your downloading something, dont worry about it...
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Yes to control spam, spammers use software which can not get around this obstacle for now! It does it to me once in a while too! No biggie\nG-Rob
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spamming:  is sending unwanted e-mail Phishing:  is using websites or hacking e-mail to obtain anothers personal and credit card info for illegal purposes
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Some spam is just being generated by viri. For example the one you mention seems to have an attachment. If the attachment has malicious content, and the email reader is set to automatically open it, the damage is done as soon as the email gets through the spam filter.
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Most email applications have a spam folder. Most things marked as spam are automatically sent to that folder upon receipt.\n\nGo to that folder, and find the message in question. Usually there are buttons soemwhere, one of which says "not spam". Meaning, if you highlight the message and click this button, it will no longer be regarded as spam.\n\nYou should find something very similar to this for whatever application you are talking about.
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Norton anti spam. Or McAfee
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A cookie is a packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses that server. Cookies are mostly used for authentication, tracking, and maintaining user-specific information (preferences, electronic shopping cart, etc.)\n\nIf you want to get rid of the cookies in your browswer, if you're using Internet Explorer, go to Tools>Options and click delete cookies.\n\nTo set advanced cookie options, go to Tools>Options and then click on the Privacy tab. Click "advanced" and set options for cookies. I recommend allow first party cookies and blocking third party cookies. If you want to, you can click "prompt" for first party cookies, if you want to specify whether or not to allow cookies from specific websites (if you do this, you will have to approve all the sites that have to set cookies in your computer).\n\nRemember, though, that some websites can't funcion if you don't accept their cookies!
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Don't worry! This is easy to fix. When you clicked "Spam," the message went into your Spam folder.\n\n1. Open the Spam folder by clicking it in the folder list on the left of the page \n2. Click the message that you marked spam by mistake. \n3. Click the "Not Spam" button along the top of the window.\n\nDone! Ahhhh, sigh of relief.