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Spam

. Depending on your tastes it's a a) delicious or b) vile canned meat product from Hormel. If you're a computer user there is no a) / b) proposition; spam sucks. Michael "Doctor File Finder" explains

what exactly spam is

and how to eradicate or, at least, lessen its impact on your inbox. Spam is the plague of the Internet and nearly 90% of all the email that's sent is spam. We'll show you some ways to

reduce the amount of spam

you have to deal with.

Most

email clients

have built in some form of

spam protection

. Most anti-virus programs also offer

spam filtering

. This protection is designed to "filter" out unwanted email. While it may not catch all

email spam

, it's a great first step and generally, the least intrusive method for dealing with spam and other junk email.

We've already established that spam sucks so it stands to reason that there are a plethora of software suites,

plug-ins

and add-ons that purport to help you

deal with spam

. Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan highlights a few programs that help you to

squash spam

.

Unlike filters or plug-in,

challenge and response systems

work off a different premise. The key is that you have certain people you want to receive mail from. All other email senders have to prove themselves first.

An alternative to all the things we've mentioned is

using a service to de-spam your email

. These services do all the filtering and you get an inbox that's much cleaner.