How do YOU get rid of Spam

[Chester Taje]

How do you folks get rid of spam? Is there a good program to use. We are getting more and more each day.

Thanks in advance for feedback.

[Lex M]

How do you folks get rid of spam?Is there a good program to use.We are getting more and more each day.
Thanks in advance for feedback.

Take a gmail address
Forward the mail from your old address to your gmail address (if possible).
You will still get spam, but separated from the normal mails.

[Donna D.]

Yeah, mine is handled by my ISP. Anytime I get spam from anyone, I can mark it "spam," and somehow the filters make certain I never receive mail from that address, or anything closely titled the same. It doesn't delete it, but places in a spam folder so I can view before final deletion, if I prefer.

[Doug Mager]

always be VERY careful 'where you go' on the net and don't leave a trail (your addy) IF possible!

[Gina D.]

quit looking at "those" websites Ches!

I have a couple of yahoo addresses that get used when I sign up for things, and a personal address that is only given out to friends family etc.

My work address is used for (go figure) work items only (Yeah, I am the only person on earth that doesn't give out my work addy casually)

With this system, I stay pretty spam free, and what comes in comes to the Yahoo addies and is filtere by yahoo. Thier filter seems pretty good.

[Frederick L. Simson]

Yeah, mine is handled by my ISP. Anytime I get spam from anyone, I can mark it "spam," and somehow the filters make certain I never receive mail from that address, or anything closely titled the same. It doesn't delete it, but places in a spam folder so I can view before finally deletion if I prefer.

This is ONE of the strategies I use. My email provider is different from my ISP. I do NOT use Microsoft Outlook. I also sweep my computer periodically with "Spybot Search and Destroy" to keep spammers from placing cookies. I also periodically delete cache and cookies.

[Greg A]

Chester,

This is the home version of what I have used for years on my corporate networks that I manage. Always been rated as one of the top.

Internet Security

It includes Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, and Spam filters. You can install on three home computers for the price.
We use this home version on wifes and children's puters and it works just as good as the corporate version.

[Chester Taje]

quit looking at "those" websites Ches!

I am too old to look Gina---Weak Heart

[Darwin Maring]

Look at www.peoplepc.com.

It is an ISP for a cheep price and they have a Spam Blocker.

[Byron Kinnaman]

The very first thing I would do is check with my email provider, usually your isp. Do they have a spam blocker, if so is it turned on. I use earthlink for my main email address and have to turn on and set the level of spam blocking I want. It goes all the way to denying anybody that I haven't given them permission to send on to no spam filtering at all.

[ronsmith100]

How do you folks get rid of spam? Is there a good program to use. We are getting more and more each day.

Thanks in advance for feedback.

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[Chester Taje]

Give it to me... with a can of new potatoes if you have extra
I am doing good with my Lipitor

[Patrick M.]

I would try to not open Outlook Express, or your email program, instead go to your email on your ISP's site, and make sure the spam settings are activated, then start flagging spam there, before its downloaded to your computer. That might help!

[Donald Stahl]

Chester,
When we were on dial-up we used to get tons of spam every day. Then, we made the decision to switch to a much faster system - our local cable company. It did cost more per month but besides being much faster, the spam was stopped cold. Our cable server eliminates probably 99 percent of incoming spam, the remainder consigned to a seperate location which can then be deleted by the user. As with any server, one should have an updated anti-virus program such as Norton.
Don

[Roy in TO]

How do you folks get rid of spam? Is there a good program to use.

Chester

In addition to the other suggestions consider using one of the additional email addresses most ISP's provide and only give that out to people you know and trust. Then switch your email software to the new address.

Keep your original email address, checking in online periodically. If your ISP allows you to mark thinkgs as spam do so, if not let your online inbox overflow. Then all the spammers will get their messages bounced back. That will thwart the bot spammers as you may be deleted from their lists. The bounced messages will raise red flags to their ISP's as potential spammers as well. Don't publically post your email address anywhere, the bots will pick it up. If you do post your email anywhere be sure to munge it such that a human can decipher it, with an annotation in your sig line.

e;g;
my.TRASHemailaddress@myisp.com
Take out the TRASH before replying

@ some time in the future you can revert back to your main or original email address and your spam will be definately reduced.

FWIW both my ISP's and OUTLOOK'S spam filters are doing a very good job once they were set up properly. I went from 50-100 spam a day to maybe 1 a week that makes it through

[peterh]

Chester,

This is the home version of what I have used for years on my corporate networks that I manage. Always been rated as one of the top.

Internet Security

It includes Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, and Spam filters. You can install on three home computers for the price.
We use this home version on wifes and children's puters and it works just as good as the corporate version.

I'll second Greg's suggestion on Trend Micro's product. I've had the same email address for 15 years, and it's been plastered all over the place. The sad result is that I get hundreds of junk emails every week, and Internet Security catches almost all of them. It's also a great anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-phishing program.

--Peter

[Pete Dumbleton]

I use anti-spyware and virus programs, but spam blocking is done quite well with my free email account at Yahoo; I may have one or two to eliminate from my mail, but the Spam folder fills up all by itself I do help them with it by marking the ones that make it to my mail as spam so they can add to the filter system.

[Brian B-P]

I would not want to "bounce back" to spammers - the bounce message confirms that although your mailbox is full, the address is legitimate, so they should keep using it. I believe that the best response to spam is no acknowledgment at all.

[Pete Dumbleton]

Brian, I wasn't clear -- I do NOT bounce back to the sender for the reason you stated -- I report the spam to Yahoo, using the Spam tool provided for that purpose, and they use the reports to adjust their spam filters.

BTW, a new one just hit me today -- Instead of the usual African dictator's money, I was asked to launder the money of a plane crash victim... That scam is so old that my ex-father in law was getting them by actual mail from Africa back in the 1980's!!

[Laura K.]

BTW, a new one just hit me today -- Instead of the usual African dictator's money, I was asked to launder the money of a plane crash victim... That scam is so old that my ex-father in law was getting them by actual mail from Africa back in the 1980's!!

The ones that really upset me are the ads for male "enhancement" products that are sent to my teenaged daughter's account.