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Effective filtering

You will need to bring up the List Manager of Spam CounterStrike by clicking on the '@' icon and select List manager.
Note: you may have to click on the "summary" tab and check the "advanced" options.

Stop single hyperlink email.
Sometimes junk mail gets through because there's little or no text in the email at all. However, there is something we can filter on: the hyperlink in the email!

How to find the hyperlink in the email:

• Sometimes the hyperlink shows up as regular text. If this is true, simply highlight it and copy it (Ctrl-C)
• Sometimes the email is in HTML. Your email program should allow you to view the source code of the email. Select this option and look for "http:". Highlight the entire web address. Copy it to the windows clipboard using control-C.
• You can also right click on the offending picture in the email and select properties. Here you can highlight and copy the web address of the picture.

• Then simply add this hyperlink to the URL black list
• Select the URL black list.
• Click on the add button.
• You will notice that only the web site address is saved to the list. The first '/' and all the text after the slash is removed. You can also edit the address and remove the 'www', since that part is not useful anyway. In fact, we've found that it's more effective to save only the top level domain and the domain. That's why you will see our list contains ".domain.tld"
  

Add new key words and phrases.

As spammers get more clever, they will stop using the typical words that filter their messages out. For example: instead of saying "click here to be removed" they will say "click below for removal" or "click for removing yourself" and hundreds of other similar tactics.

You can adapt to this by noticing new patterns and adding them to the body list.

• Highlight the words or phrases you want to add to the list.
• Copy to windows clipboard using Control-C.
• Activate the List manager.
• Then select the body list.
• Click on the add button.

Ban entire web sites or domains all at once

As you become more annoyed with spam, you will notice that some domains specialize in sending junk. Rather than trying to block each sender from the domain, you can simply block all email from a single domain. Once a domain name has been added to the black list, no more mail will be received from the specified domain unless a particular sender is in the friends list. For example, if BadSender.kk sends lots of junk emails and you don't think you will ever want emails from BadSender.kk, then add the domain BadSender.kk to the Domain Black List. Then no matter who sends you mail from this domain, it will get blocked.

Tip: Be careful not to block legitimate emails by blocking domains such as: aol.com, hotmail.com, yahoo.com, etc. These domains aren't sending you spam, their users are and it's possible some of your friends may send you legitimate emails from these domains. You can block any domain you wish and then add your friends to your Friends list.

To ban an entire domain, look at the email address and enter the address without the name before the the @. Ex: smith@spammer.com the domain would be spammer.com.
Quickly add/import a list of friends

• Export your address book from your email program as comma delimited text (CSV), tab delimited text (TXT) or any other text format file.
• Go to the list manager, click on the Friends list.
• Click on the Import button.
• Select the file you just exported from step 1.

The basic steps are to zip up the lists you want to share and email them to your friends.
Unzip the lists you receive into a temporary folder like c:temp. and then run the list manager and import each list into SCS.

How to pack up your lists for sharing:

1. Create a .zip file
   o Some versions of Windows allow you to select a folder and go to the File menu and select New Compressed folder.
   o Use a utility such as WinZip
2. Drag and drop the files you want to share into the zip file. Lists are stored (by default) in C:Program filesSpam CounterStrikeLists
3. Attach the created zip file to an email and send it to who ever you want to share the lists with.

1. Extract the files from the zip file you receive into a temporary folder such as c:temp
2. Run the List Manager by clicking on the '@' icon in your Windows system tray.
3. Click on the list you want to import.
4. Click on the Import button and select the file with the same name as the list
5. Repeat the previous step for each list. It's OK to accidentally merge the same list several times since the import removes any duplicate entries.

Myth: Reporting spammers to their ISP will stop the spmmer
Fact: While reporting a spammer to their ISP may get their account killed, they already understand that risk and most likely have alternative plans in place for another ISP, or have multiple ISP already. In fact, there are offshore ISPs which specialize in being friendly to spmmmers and solicit their business!

Myth: Spam laws will help stop spam
Fact: Laws are rarely enforced as it is. Politicians love making new laws since people think they will help. The sad truth is that the laws will remain ineffective. Many countries which host spammer's web sites don't have any laws and will never.

Myth: Sending a faked bounced email back to the spmmer will remove you from their list.
Fact: If it were only that easy. This is false. By the time you receive your junk email, the email servers have already negotiated the POP protocol, the sender knows the account is active, it was sent with no errors. Sending a fake bounced message will in fact get bounced itself! Most spammers don't use a real reply address. It may make you feel good, but other than that, it has no effect other than to further use bandwidth.

Myth: In accordance with Bill S.1618 Title III passed by the 105th U. S. Congress, this letter can not be considered spam as long as we include: (1) Contact information and (2) a way to be removed from future mailings. To remove yourself email us at remove@somebogusdomain.com and type "Remove" in the "subject" line.
Fact: It turns out that there was a S.1618 titled The Telephone Slamming Bill of 1998. The primary purpose of that bill was to address telephone slamming: changing your long distance provider without your permission. There are three problems however: First, S.1618 was never passed. Second, S.1618 would not actually have made spam legal, it would have made certain kinds of spam illegal. Finally, most spam in fact, actually violates the provisions of S.1618.