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While everybody talks about the financial crises, criminal activity grows on the Internet. So called “black heads” are using the Internet not only to gather private user data, they also build international networks to optimize criminal processes and distribution channels.

Even spammers are using such networks. If an email address is in their list once, that address will be distributed among spammers and the user will get a huge amount of unsolicited emails over time.

The usage of a good spam filter helps you to keep out the litter, and the filter should produce few false positives. You want to get your newsletter that you subscribed to, even if it is spam for another user, right?

emerion offers a highly valuable spam filter in each web hosting plan, the emerion SVX spam- and virus protection, which is customizable for your needs. It is possible to tune the filter on a scale from 1 to 12, and black and white lists are also supported per email address. If an email contains a virus, it will be deleted immediately from the server, emails detected as spam are stored in the spam folder, accessible from your webmail account. The advantage in comparison to local spam and virus protection applications running on your computer, is that the emails need not be downloaded to your computer first. They are caught at the server, so you save valuable time, bandwidth and power of your computer.

With an effective spam filter you avoid the hassles. According to a message of the anti-virus vendor McAffee you even save the environment. They calculated that the electronic distribution, viewing and deleting of spam emails generates as much carbon dioxide as powering 1.9 million houses.

Nobody knows the accuracy of this data and nobody really knows, how much spam is circulating through the Net, but a well tuned spam filter gives you the best you can get: valuable time.