Blacklist

A blacklist is a list of people, IP addresses or Url's that you have disallowed to send you email in your spam filter. You can blacklist people, IP addresses or Url's with SPAMfighter

Whitelist

A list of email addresses, IP addresses or domains that is trusted by a user and therefore approved be delivered, bypassing the spam filters.

Newsletters

A newsletter is a simple form of newspaper or information page that communicates to a target group. Newsletters are mostly legit, coming from a service the users might have been unaware that he or she accepted to get information from. The user is able to unsubscribe the Newsletters without any problems. Note: Always read the terms thorough when subscribing to a service with your email to find out weather or not they are allowed to send you newsletters of other information - and only submit and unsubscribe to services you know are legit, to prevent that you expose your email.

Phishing

Phishing is a scam, although one of the newer ones, that tries to lure your hard-earned money right out of your wallet. And technically it's a well-done scam, which takes advantage of peoples trust in legal enterprises.  You can filter Phishing mails with SPAMfighter.

Spam

Unsolicited e-mail sent to large numbers of people to promote products or services. Also called "Junk" or "Bulk"  mail. We all see spam - unwanted mass-mails - in our mail-boxes every day. Spamfighter is an award winning anti-spam software, used by over 500.000 users worldwide. You can also be protected from spam by getting the FREE version of SPAMfighter

Spamfighter

The good guys. The ones who actively work against spam and tries to do something about the problem. You can also become a SPAMfighter, by using our anti-spam software.

Spamfilter

(Filter)

A spamfilter is software that filters all incoming mail and sorts them in what is normal mail and what seems like spam. Spamfilters can be deployed on the network where the spam will be detained before you download it (i.e. our SPAMfighter SMTP antispam server, SPAMfighter exchange module or hosted spam filter) or on your computer where it will be detained after you download it (i.e. our antispam filter for outlook/outlook express.

Spammer

A spammer is a person who sends spam! Believe it or not, many people actually react on spam mails and even some actually buys something from spam mails. Even though it is only a very small percentage of people who receive a spam mail that react on it, it is still a very lucrative business for most spammers. Some easy steps to prevent getting spam: 1. install a SPAMfighter anti-spam filter. 2. Never open or react on spam mails!

False positive

A false positive is when your anti-spam software identifies a legitimate messages as spam. SPAMfighter comes with an automatic "real mail" protection, which means no false positives.

False negative

A false negative is when your anti-spam software fails to identify a spam message as spam.