SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HINDERING UNDESIRED TRANSMISSION OR RECEIPT OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES

A system and method of hindering an undesirable transmission or receipt of electronic messages within a network of users includes the steps of determining that transmission or receipt of at least one specific electronic message is undesirable; automatically extracting detection data that permits detection of the at least one specific electronic message or variants thereof; scanning one or more inbound and/or outbound messages from at least one user for the presence of the at least one specific electronic message or variants thereof; and taking appropriate action, responsive to the scanning step.