Little things you can do to help fight spam

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Provides tips for protecting yourself against malware and fraud, as well as how to help fight spammers in general.

That's malware. I presume they are using the root mal as in bad, evil, corrosive, tragic, mean...

The context in this article is ...spyware and other malware...