Respond to the Text Lab Project 16.2 (Objectives 1 and 2) Provide a short narrat

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Respond to the Text Lab Project 16.2 (Objectives 1 and 2)

Provide a short narrative on security techniques and mechanisms in protecting against spam activity.

Lab project 16.2

Find at least ten pieces of spam mail from any account, whether it be home, work, school, or something else. Using the e-mail headers, and wed site that might provide information, attempt to trace the spam mail back to its original source.

1. Collect the e-mail and view the e-mail header information in your e-mail program.

2. Find the 'received' field in the headers and write down as many DNS or IP addresses as you can. Also look for common details in the header element of the header element of the different messages such as the same e-mail service and spammers.

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Spam is an repeated unrequested email which consumes a lot of network bandwidth and may contain malware or lead to phishing sites. There are many techniques to deal with spams :

1 AntiVirus

It can help in removing already present spams in inbox and also block future spams and can scan the mail for any malware or phishing attack.

2. Blacklisting the spam

We can blacklist certain known spam sender and then our email provider will block these spams and move them to trash. It is not perfect prevention but is better than doing nothing.

3. Educate about spam.

We should spread awareness about the dangers of opening spam so that people get educated about spams and help deal with them.

4. Email service

Use email portals which have inbuilt features for filtering the spams, so that we don't have to deal with them. One such email service is Google mail which filters the spams and put the spams in a single folder known as promotions.

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