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Phishing:
This is where your receive an email from a trusted organization (like a bank, an eStore, or your hosting provider) which claims that you need to click a link to go to their site and update your personal information for their records. Following the link you come to a site that portends to belong to the company you trust, thought it doesn't. If you don't notice in time, and your hosting company doesn't either, you might accidentally give a thief and a saboteur the weapons they need to take your money and destroy your system.Fortunately, there are many hosting providers that have, as part of their hosting packages, software that detects and intercepts these kinds of scams for you.
Viruses:
Another insidious crime is the sending of viruses through email attachments. We've all heard of viruses, and consumers and hosting companies alike often rely on such tools as Norton AntiVirus to protect their system(s). But your hosting company can often provide you additional protection. Having a firewall as part of your hosting package, for example, is a great source of peace of mind. Its worth seeking a hosting provider that can scan attachments to ensure their virus-free, a hosting provider that is constantly updating their database of new viruses.
Spam:
If you have an email account, you've received spam, those insidious, unsolicited solicitations for products and services you neither want nor need. Even your hosting provider is affected by spam. And still, somehow, companies foolishly continue to churn out the spam in the hopes that one day we'll change our minds and buy their products or services. You want to find a hosting company that can help you battle this shameless beast.
Now there are spam filters many website hosting companies use to siphon off suspect emails before they're delivered to your account. Maybe the sender of the email hasn't been authorized by the recipient to send them emails. Or maybe the hosting company recognizes that the email has been simultaneous sent to a ton of other recipients. Some spam filters are heuristic, meaning they learn over time to better and better distinguish mail you want to read from mail you don't. And now, hosting companies can even use software that analyzes the actual text in your emails to search for sales pitches or patterns between this email and similar ones sent out to other hosting clients.
You can select whether to have your hosting service automatically delete emails it identifies as spam, or just place them in an alternate mailbox for your later examination. And spam doesn't just annoy, it harms. It's possible the spam that gets through your hosting providers server could be carrying a virus.
It's a crime to mess with the U.S. mail and you should consider it no less criminal to mess with a person's email. Email is a great and powerful tool that can be sorely abused by the selfish and greedy. The hosting company you choose should be your stalwart ally in battling such affronts. Don't settle for a hosting provider that isn't up to the challenge.
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