| Author | Message | ||
     Jerseyguy |
Can anybody suggest a decent spam blocker? I really don't need to find a Russian supermodel, BBW, Christian single, Jewish single, hispanic beauty or hot date tonight. Nor do I need viagra, cialis or any other drug. My mortgage is paid so keep the $488,000. etc. etc. ad naseum | ||
| Bdabuell |
I'm using Zone Alarms (http://www.zonelabs.com) for firewall and virus/spyware prevention...it also has a junkmail/spam/virus filter that integrates with Outlook (don't know about other mail clients) that seems to work quite well. Anything it sees as junk it moves to a separate dedicated folder where you can delete it as necessary. You can also mark emails as not junk if it moved them incorrectly or as junk if it missed them | ||
| Josh_ |
the current Consumer Reports reviewed several security programs/catagories. Best Suite was Zonelabs ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite Top anti-spam add-on programs were trend-micro, allume (Spamcatcher), and cloud mark. Decent article and other useful information/reviews if you want to pick up a copy. | ||
| Blake |
Gmail rocks. | ||
| Cereal |
Gmail is good at blocking spam. I would suggest changing your email address either way and not give it out unless necessary. I keep a separate 'throw away account' for times when I need to provide one but don't trust the source not to compromise it. Another way to keep spam down is to not have an easy or short user name like bill@whatever.com. A lot of spam programs go through a 'dictionary' of words and common names, attach the domain to it, and send them out by the millions. I also suggest turning off the preview pain if you are using outlook, express, or any other non web based email software. Many of these spam emails will launch a virus as soon as the message is displayed. And the preview pain displays it, just in a smaller window. | ||
| Captainxb |
Look for Mailwasher. You can screen all email before you download it to your Outlook, and it even bounces back the crap to the original source, so they think your email address is dead. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
I do what Cereal & Blake said, Gmail for the main account & I do throwaways on Hotmail or Yahoo when needed. | ||
| Jaimec |
Mozilla Thunderbird and Seamonkey Internet Suite all have built-in Bayesian filtering for Spam. Works great, and it's FREE. You can also turn off Java and Javascripting in E-Mail to avoid the problems mentioned by Cereal (above). http://www.mozilla.org |
