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Spam: The PDF Spam and Protecting Your Children

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Spammers are increasingly using PDF files to bear their spam messages. This practice begun in mid-2007, primarily as a scam to fool recipients into investing their money in the stock of a particular company of their choice.

The use of junk mail with PDF attachments takes up even more Internet bandwidth. This is because PDF files are generally much larger than the embedded pictures and graphics used in image spam. Image spam is typically in GIF format; PDF files are upto 3 times the size of these files.

You're Kids Protection

Like all other Internet users, children are just as susceptible to receiving spam as are adults. And because spam is an equal opportunity menace, kids are just as likely to receive spam that contains adult and pornographic material. While there is really no way to totally eliminate the possibility of your kids receiving spam, there are steps you can take to minimize it.

Spam Blocker - Your email service may come with a spam blocker. If it does not, it may be worth your while to invest in one for your child's computer. Where-as your email filter filters incoming email into folders, the spam blocker blocks spam from going through the system. It checks your mail server every 10 minutes, where it deletes the spam and destroys any viruses it finds. Legitimate email is let on the server and downloads to the inbox when you log in.

Spammers tend to direct the dictionary attacks at the large email companies, which have a large number of customers, which can be your kid.

Using your email spam filter, you can set up a rule that will ensure that a copy of every email that is sent and received on your child's account is forwarded to your own email address
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