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The modern meaning of the word "spam" comes from the Spam Skit by Monty Python's Flying Circus. In the sketch, a restaurant serves all its food with lots of spam, and the waitress repeats the word several times in describing how much spam is in the items. When she does this, a group of Vikings in the corner start singing a song: "Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam! Wonderful spam!" This goes on until they are told to shut up. Thus "spam" came to be known as something that keeps repeating and repeating itself.
Spam was originally a name given to a popular luncheon meat product made by Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota USA. Through war and recession, Americans turned to the canned product from Hormel as a way to save money while still putting something that looked and tasted like meat on the dinner table. Now, due to the slow down of the US economy, it is happening again, and the Hormel Corporation is cranking out as much Spam as its workers can produce. But others are cranking out even more spam than Hormel Foods could ever have dreamed possible. And it is not a very tasty dish!
A recent Microsoft security report found that 97% of all e-mails sent over the net are are dominated by spam. The term "spam" has today come to mean network abuse, specially junk E-mail. We all get it and we all hate it. Some say it can actually make us sick. This is rather funny because most spam emails are adverts for drugs, and often have harmful attachments. The report also shows which countries suffer the most from spam - Russia and Brazil top the global chart of infections, followed by Turkey, Serbia and Montenegro. The global average for infected machines is 8.6 for every 1,000 uninfected computers.
How do you deal with spam - what can you do to stop it? : DON'T RESPOND TO IT! That means don't click on any of the hyperlinks in it ESPECIALLY the link that says "click here to be removed from our list". When you do that, you have just confirmed to the spammer that they reached a real person with a valid email address. This only results in one thing: MORE SPAM. Keep your security software up to date. But don't be fooled by ScareWare - fake security programs which pop up and tell people that they need to install software which, in fact, just tries to steal personal data from a user's computer. Do not post your email address anywhere on the web unless it is absolutely necessary and try to use a 2nd generic email address like Hotmail, Yahoo, or Gmail. This includes forums, guestbooks, websites, newsgroups and so on. There are spam harvesters, robots, that crawl the web looking for email address. The lists of email addresses are compiled and sold to companies who want to use them for only one thing: to send you SPAM.
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