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Anyone who uses the Internet is familiar with spam, but to some email users the phenomenon is more harmful and bothersome than for others. It is definitely hard for businesses to distinguish valuable messages from unsolicited emails. For business and personal assistance alike, software companies have created special anti-spam programs meant to block the access of unsolicited mail to inbox in more than 90% of cases. Released by Microsoft in May 2004, the exchange spam blocker is a smart tool designed for mailbox protection. The target market for this product consists of individual users and companies that receive unsolicited commercial emails in very large numbers.

Microsoft Smart Screen technology stays at the basis of the Exchange spam blocker as it is essential for the identification of the nature of the message. The access of the unsolicited mail messages can thus be stopped at the mailbox or at the gateway depending on the settings. Initially there were tools that pre-dated the release of Exchange spam blocker. At present, Microsoft no longer provides updates for the former intelligent filters, in a clustered environment. The present version of the Exchange spam blocker supports business development by detecting and stopping spam in the tracks.

The spam blocker for exchange combines several technologies in order to separate spam from legitimate messages; thus, besides the use of the Bayes filtering, the tool scans the messages for spam keywords and analyzes the spam headers. After the identification of the spam messages, the delete or read-mail options are controlled by the PC user. There are versions of the Exchange spam blocker that actually inform a sender whether his or her message has been treated as spam despite its inherent legitimacy. Plus, the benefits of preventing spam directly on server before downloading into the computer are manifold: less virus attacks and no malware unauthorized installation.

To sum it up, the Exchange spam blocker can support all the small business and personal operations conducted via email. A problem of the 2003 version of the blocker used to be the impossibility to export or import blocked e-mails or send domains. One further inconvenience is that the user has no clue about how much spam gets blocked and how well filters are functioning. It is important to test the settings and learn about the best operational mode so that you can maximize the usage of your anti-spam tool.

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