EMAIL SPAM & VIRUS, Help wanted Options

[Wassy]

Many forum readers have substantial hardware and software expertise. Previous discussions on video drivers/cards have been helpful, and I hope someone can help in the following area.

We receive approximately 50 - 75 junk emails (spam or virus attachments) daily. Our ISP has installed antispam & antivirus filters. The ISP flags some emails in their SUBJECT line as being spam, or having a virus, and Outlook Express filters move these emails directly to the deleted folder. The ISP and Outlook Express filters catch approximately 50% of the problem emails. Remaining spam & virus infected emails still get deposited in the inbox. My Norton Antivirus flags any virus infected emails, but they're still deposited in the inbox.

Ideally, I'd like to have something that would keep a greater percentage of the spam/viruses completely off my computer, or moved automatically into the deleted email folder.

Any help that you guys can provide will be appreciated.

This post has been edited by {DMW}Wassy: 03/29/04 11:50am

[Druid]

I use a program called spampal
http://www.spampal.org/
It takes a little work to setup but it works very well.

There are other program that will only show emails form people on a pre-approved list. If a real person not on the list sends you and email, it automatically send them an email they most respond to before their mail is viewable. This type a program works very well at keeping your inbox spam free. 99% of spam uses fake return addresses, so they never get the response email to be added to your approve list.