Any recommended titles people use?

I've been using Spam Inspector from Giant for a while now and used to be very effective. But the strangest thing's happened, they got bought over by Micro$oft and they've now stopped development of it!

So I'm looking for something else now, as the amount of spam getting through has increased dramatically in the past few weeks and it's starting to get on my nerves. I know they're getting more sophisticated with the content and subject lines they use, but even so....

Suggestions welcome.

Steve

Any recommended titles people use?

I've been using Spam Inspector from Giant for a while now and used to be very effective. But the strangest thing's happened' date=' they got bought over by Micro$oft and they've now stopped development of it!

So I'm looking for something else now, as the amount of spam getting through has increased dramatically in the past few weeks and it's starting to get on my nerves. I know they're getting more sophisticated with the content and subject lines they use, but even so....

Suggestions welcome.

Steve[/quote']

used to use a spam program but just outlook now and the filters in there have cut it down to a few a day two months ago it was 80 a day

I have taken mine off. I was running Norton Anti Spam BUT it slowed down my computer too much. I'm still searching for a FREE one that doesnt run out in so many days

Is this for home or work use?

We use NetIQ Mail Marshall and it's very good. Overkill and pricey for home use though.

Use outlook 2003 instead of outlook express. You can import your ISP settings, and Outlook has a builtin spam blocker, which needs to be turned on IIRC and is updated regularly microsoft. (tools > options preferences tab then junk email button)

Use mozilla thunderbird, which has anti-spam built in. You can train it so it picks up more spam as well as you start using it.

Thanks for the responses. I use Outlook 2003 and I'm not prepared to change programs. I do use Thunderbird for usenet though.

Might have another look at the built-in anti-spam filters in Outlook then. Just didn't think they were that effective when I was using them before I got 'Spam Inspector'.

Cheers,

Steve

Another vote for T'bird, the inbuilt spam learning filter, plus your own definable message filters, achieve about 99% accuracy spam detection.

As I've said, I'm NOT changing email programs - for a number of reasons, none of which are applicable here.

Steve

I use "Mailwasher" to great effect.

Admittedly I bought the "pro" version (and use it on my laptops as well) but it's only a few quid and well worth it in my view !

Another vote for mailwasher here

If you don't want to change your client (as stated) you could put mailscanner on the server or a seperate server which will tag spam and if used with an AV package will also quarantine virus and similar material.