Week 2 Response
Response 100 words 2 references
Clark
When I think of SPAM, I think of the canned processed meat my mother tried to get me to eat when I was a child and never cared for it at all. She would tell me it tastes like ham, and it didn’t to me. I recall visiting Hawaii on a vacation and found out that it is a very popular dish. I walked through a grocery store in Hawaii and there were so many different types of Spam unlike the most common type where I live at in Georgia.
Spam in terms of digital communication is unwanted messages sent out in bulk. Such as emails and text messages. The purpose of spam is to advertise information or send malicious information to infect your computer.
I often receive spam I would call legitimate where I have signed up for some type of service or email list from a commercial business where I opt in to receive future messages from them in the form of either sale or discount information. I don’t consider them to be spam since I signed up for them. I do receive unsolicited spam everyday which I call junk mail. I have a filter that sends most of the spam to my junk folder but there are times when I will receive spam in my email, and I will either block it or unsubscribe from it. I tend to think that unsubscribing does not work effectively since I often receive the same spam emails day later so blocking is the most effective way to me.
Microsoft Outlook has features to easily block spam mail. All you must do is right click on the message and select junk and block sender to move message to your junk folder or you can select junk from the ribbon to do the same.
Outlook mail can be organized by creating folders and naming them to easier manage emails by subject matter. Also, the junk filter option can be selected to determine the level of protection that you want.
Response 100 words 2 references
According to Malwarebytes (n.d.), Spam is any kind of unwanted, unsolicited digital communication that gets sent out in bulk. Often spam is sent via email, but it can also be distributed via text messages, phone calls, or social media. Occasionally, you may receive email in your spam folder from a service that you signed up for such as coupons or a new store. Personally, I receive email that my wife has signed me up for.
There are some emails that you may receive in your junk or spam inbox that may be legitimate, these are called marketing messages and will continue to go into your spam inbox until you opt in to receive them.
I normally receive spam email within my Gmail account. Within my professional email account with the school district, our IT department does an excellent job of filtering out junk / spam email. I try to block most or all spam email, there are times I personally go into the spam folder and delete all spam email. I also have my account set to delete all spam email after 30 days.
Blocking spam email within Outlooks is straightforward, right click on the selected email, look for the Junk option, from there you can block the sender or go even further by clicking on the Junk email options which you have five tabs to choose from on what to do. Managing legitimate spam is also not that complicated. Again, right click on the selected email, look for and click on the Junk option, from there you have three options:
· Never block sender
· Never block sender’s domain
· Never block this Group or Mailing list
The other options available for organizing and managing that mail is to right click on the email, look for the Junk option, choose Junk Email Options and you can place them in the Safe Senders and Safe Recipients tabs.