This question really needs to be more program specific.
Outlook Express, Outlook, and both of those in their various
versions. Eudora, etc., etc..
Bear in mind that the "@techno-vision" domain has been about
for a while and get's hit pretty badly.
I have Outlook 2003, running off an Exchange 2003 Server. I
reckon the Spam filter in Outlook is pretty good, and
filters around 200 or more spam messages a DAY!.
But I also have Windows "Defender" which interactively
monitors Spyware. In short, I do not have to consciously
run a spyware program like Spybot at a time of my choosing.
If I get hit with Spyware now, it deals with it.
George.
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ray's Home
Sent: 11 May 2006 22:02
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Anti-spam program experiences
I asked for advicehere and elsewhere on anti-spam programs
recently and
thought I'd share my experience thus far..
The first one I tried was Spam Washer:
http://www.mailwasher.net/
It's fairly accessable but the free version only deals with
one account at a
time and I didn't find it that easy or intuitive to
understand.
the one I'm using just now is Cactus Spam:
http://www.codeode.com/spamfilter/index.html
this is freeware and seems to live up to its author's
claims. It works well
with Outlook Express which I use and a good many other email
clients too. You
have
to tell it at first what counts as spam and you can tell it
about good messages
too should it get things wrong. The interface is pretty
speech friendly but
the training arena window where you train Cactus Spam seems
to get corrupted
after some time spent defining messages as spam or good. I
don't have the
clear list when closing arena checked so that when I exit
and re-enter CS the
list is still there and uncorrupted.
I should say the program stays in the background and can be
accessed via a hot
key or via the sys tray. (I find the hotkey is slow to bring
the training
window up.) It marks spam with the prefix *** cactus spam
*** (note the
stars.) You can then set up an OE filter to shift all these
prefixed
spam emails to a folder of your choice. pretty easy.
I'll end by mentioning another solution based here in the UK
but used all over
the world, seemingly. this is Spamjjab. It's at:
www.spamjab.com
This seems to be free - at the moment - for personal use and
seems to be highly
thought of.(or is that just presentational spin on the
site's part) but I
think it probably does work well, although I've not tried
Spamjab.
Seeing as how the net is getting to be such a virtual bear
garden these days I
would hazzard a bet that more and more ordinary folk who
don't want to get to
grips with more and more anti-spam, anti-phishing, and other
scams may choose
to pay up and leave others to the complexities of weeding
out this trash. that
is, unless the internet really does get its act together and
become, by
default, a less dangerous place.
HTH.
Ray
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