In day three of this series of articles, I discussed several methods that spammers use to gather e-mail addresses for their mailing lists, also known as e-mail address harvesting. Today, I'm going to cover countermeasures for most of these methods.

Today, I'm summarizing the E-mail address security series of blog posts. Taking these steps can help stop your spam problem from getting worse, and are best when implemented as soon as possible.

"What is the purpose of spam?" This is often the first question asked in any discussion about unwanted e-mails. This article is going to briefly discuss what fuels the continuing onslaught of unsolicited commercial e-mail.

This article will concentrate on different methods of phishing attacks, make some predictions for future attacks, and cover some countermeasures.