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SpamUsually refers to bulk emails of an advertising nature sent to individuals who have not indicated their willingness to receive such emails. Can also refer to posting ads to a discussion list or online forum, using unethical or manipulative practices to try to get a listing or ranking in a search engine, or an using intant messaging service (such as AIM or ICQ) to send ads.Similar MatchesSpamwareSpamwareA special type of Trojan horse program that installs itself on your personal computer and then uses it to send emails containing spam or a virus to other computer users, or to retrieve email addresses from your personal address book and forward them to a spammer. SpamtrapSpamtrapA fake email address specifically set up to receive only spam emails, usually for the purpose of identifying spammers and testing spam filtering software and scripts. |
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