Any anti-spam software recommendations?

[Dr. Jay]

Scuba Jim once bubbled...
Anyway, a kind lady called "Mrs Marriam Abacha, the wife to the late Head of State, of the federal Republic of Nigeria from 1993 -1998 - General Sani Abacha-" has kindly asked me to assist her in transferring $38 million into a secure account. Apparently she got my details from a trade mission. How kind of them. I must get on to it right away!

Whoa!

Maybe she knocked him off when she found out Mr. Abacha had successfully administered his cupboard full of viagra to obtain his 8ft one-eyed snake? Anyone else see any connections here?

 

[scubasean]

McAffee Spamkiller....

Adapts with the times, you can create custom filters...gets 95% or more of the spam that comes my way..., and I get lots of it...

Sean

 

[Sebastian]

Scuba Jim once bubbled...
Just looked at that. It says it is for Outlook users, not Outlook Express. Do you use it on Outlook Express?

I use it with Outlook. Don't know if it works with Express though..sorry

benncool once bubbled...
But I have another question along the same line. How do you stop these drop down windows with ads when you are on the internet? Is there a program for these? They are more annoying then the email spam used to be.

Try Proximitron.

http://www.spamblocked.com/proxomitron/ProxN44.exe

Great (free) Program!

 

[rickyd]

I'm pretty happy with this one. Very customizable, few false positives, cheap ( I think about $20.). I use the Outlook edition, so I'm not sure if there are any differences in the OE version

Sunbelt Software iHateSpam

 

[Scuba Jim]

Thanks for the advice!

Sorry I did not reply sooner, but was just arranging the transfer of Mrs Abacha's money - funny how she needed some money off me first, but hey, I don't see why I can't trust her. After all she did get my contact details from a trade mission, so she must be kosher!

Also, I overdosed on viagra last night and I couldn't get in the office door because my oversized meat & 2 veg got in the way!

I had an email from a Camille Yoder today, asking if I wanted to be hung like a horse. I sent her a reply and said "Yes please! Having take too many of the other medications I'm hung like a blue whale now, have you got something to reduce the size of the damn thing. I can't find underpants big enough to take it!"

Well, gotta go - I just took delivery of 34 toner cartridges. And all for only $28.99

 

[MgicTwnger]

benncool once bubbled...
I get my email on yahoo.com. I bought the update so it has a spam stopper with it . If something does get through you can tag it as "spam" and the next time they send something from the senders address it is put into the span file.

The nice part is you can go to the spam file and if something looks interesting then you can open it.

But I have another question along the same line. How do you stop these drop down windows with ads when you are on the internet? Is there a program for these? They are more annoying then the email spam used to be.

I use Yahoo mail, and like it as well. However, I get mine for free as part of my DSL package from SBC/Ameritech.
As for a popup blocker, try downloading the latest version of the Google toolbar at google.com. It has a built-in blocker which works pretty well. It's still in beta, but I havn't seen any problems after using it for about a week.

 

[Green Mountain]

I down loaded the google toolbar. I'll see what happens. Hey, I can't beat the price.

The reason I expanded yahoo's email is because I needed more memory. The basic email was free when I got my DLS from Adelphia Cable.

 

[wstein]

MgicTwnger once bubbled...


I use Yahoo mail, and like it as well. However, I get mine for free as part of my DSL package from SBC/Ameritech.
As for a popup blocker, try downloading the latest version of the Google toolbar at google.com. It has a built-in blocker which works pretty well. It's still in beta, but I havn't seen any problems after using it for about a week.

I just dl'ed the beta google toolbar, it seems to work ok so far. I'll update if it craps out on me at a later date.

Paul =-)