I'm new to the computer world, can anyone tell me what spam is?
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Very informative question please read definitions below::\n\nSPAM\n\nTo indiscriminately send unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant, or inappropriate messages, especially commercial advertising in mass quantities. Noun: electronic "junk mail".\n\nSpam refers to electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. In addition to being a nuisance, spam also eats up a lot of network bandwidth. Because the Internet is a public network, little can be done to prevent spam, just as it is impossible to prevent junk mail. However, the use of software filters in e-mail programs can be used to remove most spam sent through e-mail.\n\n"SPAM" mail is the practice of sending massive amounts of e-mail promotions or advertisements (and scams) to people that have not asked for it. Spam mail is controversial and there are many levels of definitions for it. Many times, spam e-mail lists are created by "harvesting" e-mail addresses from discussion boards and groups, chat rooms, IRC, and web pages. Pugmarks strictly prohibits sending spam from accounts on our servers.\n\n\nA spam message is an unsolicited, usually commercial e-mail message. It is also referred to as UCE, or unsolicited commercial e-mail.\n\nAs a noun, an irrelevant message (frequently commercial advertising) cross-posted to many public fora (eg.: Usenet groups) simultaneously. As a verb, the act of posting such spam. The term is derived, obscurely, from a popular Monty Python comedy sketch that celebrates the pleasures of consuming a certain tinned meat product.\n\nSpam by e-mail is a type of spam that involves sending identical or nearly identical messages to thousands (or millions) of recipients. Addresses of recipients are often harvested from Usenet postings or web pages, obtained from databases, or simply guessed by using common names and domains. By definition, spam is sent without the permission of the recipients. \n\nSpam is repeated use of more than one grenade in one part of a map in the quake mod Team Fortress. It also broadly incorporates overuse of the in-game messaging system and excessive setting of detpacks (large-scale explosions). \n\nSpam is a popular Monty Python sketch, first broadcast in 1970. In the sketch, two customers are trying to order a breakfast without SPAM from a menu which includes the processed meat product in every entree. The term spam (in electronic communication) is derived from this sketch. \n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/jcbroogley
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it depends on server isp, type of software you run and computer used 30,000 maybe - should not bother you unless you plan to sent spam mail!!!
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It may be spam. Many hours are wasted due to spam email. However, by taking simple precautions while giving out your email and installing updated free software, you can prevent spam. More info available at\n http://fixit.in/stopspam.html
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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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One word..........SPAM!\n\nDelete and report it!   \n\nGood Luck....Andrew/FreeBird
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spam mail is junk from websites that carry viruses or spyware, or popups, just junk that you should not go to cause sometimes they are web sites that dont even exist.
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IT'S ALL SPAM!!! Don't open them for some may contain a virus.
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If you received this e-mail from someone you do not know it is probably spam and could pose a danger of spyware and or a virus. I would delete it.
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Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. Spam costs the sender very little to send -- most of the costs are paid for by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender.\n\nThere are two main types of spam, and they have different effects on Internet users. Cancellable Usenet spam is a single message sent to 20 or more Usenet newsgroups. (Through long experience, Usenet users have found that any message posted to so many newsgroups is often not relevant to most or all of them.) Usenet spam is aimed at "lurkers", people who read newsgroups but rarely or never post and give their address away. Usenet spam robs users of the utility of the newsgroups by overwhelming them with a barrage of advertising or other irrelevant posts. Furthermore, Usenet spam subverts the ability of system administrators and owners to manage the topics they accept on their systems.\n\nEmail spam targets individual users with direct mail messages. Email spam lists are often created by scanning Usenet postings, stealing Internet mailing lists, or searching the Web for addresses. Email spams typically cost users money out-of-pocket to receive. Many people - anyone with measured phone service - read or receive their mail while the meter is running, so to speak. Spam costs them additional money. On top of that, it costs money for ISPs and online services to transmit spam, and these costs are transmitted directly to subscribers.\n\nOne particularly nasty variant of email spam is sending spam to mailing lists (public or private email discussion forums.) Because many mailing lists limit activity to their subscribers, spammers will use automated tools to subscribe to as many mailing lists as possible, so that they can grab the lists of addresses, or use the mailing list as a direct target for their attacks.
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Just go to www.yahoo.com and sign up.  It's free.  I've been with them for years and there's never been a problem with spam or pesty pop-ups.
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The only way to get away from tonnes of spam in your bulk folder is to get a new email address.\n\nUnfortunately.
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Ack, not more spam!  \n\nDo not send any commercial or promotional emails to people who did not specifically and verifiably request it, no matter great your product is and how much you think they need to hear about it.\n\nWhat is spam and why should you care?  \nhttp://www.netmanners.com/spam_spam_spam.html
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Actually, if the email you got says that you might have a virus because the sender of the emailer found one in an email YOU sent, that's not SPAM.\n\nWhat it IS is someone using your email address to send virus-laden emails to others.  This is a technique often used by viruses ... they go through the infected PC's address book and not only send emails with viruses to those people, but send emails USING those email addresses as the FROM address.  Without knowing the full text of the message I can't be more sure if this is the case or not.\n\nIf it were, it doesn't mean YOU have a virus.\n\nHowever, you SHOULD have a scanner, at least a free one.\n\nIf you don't have a scanner, at least use ONE of these free ones:\n\nhttp://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html\nhttp://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
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spam\nE-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it). Spam is used to advertise products or to broadcast some political or social commentary.\n\nThe term was supposedly coined from a Monty Python comedy sketch in the early 1970s, in which every item on a restaurant menu contained SPAM, and there was nothing a customer could do to get a meal without it. The sketch was derived from the fact that in England during World War II, SPAM (Hormel's processed meat) was abundantly available while other foods were rationed. Many believe spam is an acronym for "sales promotional advertising mail" or "simultaneously posted advertising message."
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your SpaM folder usually is your bulk folder open it and you will find planty of SpAm
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Spam is any message or posting, regardless of its content, that is sent to multiple recipients who have not specifically requested the message. Spam can also be multiple postings of the same message to newsgroups or list servers that aren't related to the topic of the message. Other common terms for spam include unsolicited commercial email (UCE) and unsolicited bulk email (UBE). \n\nThe individuals who send spam are typically people who purchased or harvested a list of email addresses. They send messages from numerous different addresses to all areas of the Web. \n\nAll mail originating from an ISP has an originating IP address embedded in the full address headers. This address helps to identify the sender of the email and track the individual to his or her service provider. Individuals who use that ISP's address in their spam are forging mail headers if the originating IP line is absent in the spam.
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Looks like a virus. When you get it, delete it. It will tell the computers that sent you spam, that you're e-mail address is invalid.