Free Spam Fighting Software

[D Major]

Spam is a right nuisance – we sometimes get 100 junk emails. Norton has a so-called anti-spam feature but it’s useless. I’ll give this one a try, but it would be great to hear if anyone else has found a successful solution.

What we need is to be able to completely block anything that has specific words in the subject – obviously Viagra etc. etc.

With Norton you can only do this if you also know the source it’s coming from, and the spammers somehow produce hundreds of new sources all the time.

Any good tips out there?

[Shane Drew]

Hey DM, I forgot I put this link here. Let me know what you think, but it only seems to work with webmail (hotmail, incredimail etc) accounts. Couldn’t get it to work on my outlook accounts, and they never replied to my emails.

Cheers

[Mark Candlin]

Its quite easy to make your own filter with outlook express. When you get a spam e-mail highlight the message and go to MESSAGE on the tool bar then CREATE RULE FROM MESSAGE. In this dialog box you can decide what to do if you get e mails containing words in the subject line OR in the body of the message text. So any message that contains "Viagra" in the title or message can be deleted. This will put the message straight into your delete box. You can also set it up to delete all messages in your delete box when you shut down.

Its quite satisfying when you look at your delete box and see 10 crapy messages go staight in the bin. Its a bit like fishing. The spammers try all sorts of ways getting around this by mis splelling words (sic) such as
Russsian or Hotttt etc etc. But as soon as 1 gets thru the net ,set up another rule and catch em next time they try it, just like fishing.

[David Rowland]

im doubious of any software that pretends to be spam filters.. the best is the ones that the Internet Providers use.

If you have a website ( i have several )… you are likely to get tonnes of spam

[Chris Dowd]

We us "inboxer" not free, costs around £20 I think, been using if for years now, very very good.

http://www.inboxer.com

There used to be a free trial on their website.

[Shane Drew]

quote Chris Dowd:

We us “inboxer” not free, costs around £20 I think, been using if for years now, very very good.

http://www.inboxer.com

There used to be a free trial on their website.

I purchased inboxer after reading a report here once before. Only works with outlook not express tho.

Use it at home, but will not work on my express at work.

Very good tho. I’d recommend it to anyone too.

[Chris Dowd]

Shane, can you not change your outlook express at work to outlook, then it would work (sorry don’t know how easy that would be, but I’m sure someone here could tell you!!).

[David Rowland]

Outlook’s the way to go shane… Have you Microsoft Office installed? I dont see any harm of giving this a go and there is an evaluation version.

You can transfer from Express to Outlook… there is an import

taken from the site:-

Minimum System Requirements
InBoxer for Outlook requires Microsoft Outlook version 2000, 2002, XP or 2003 on a PC using Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, NT4, Me or XP. InBoxer supports PCs using Microsoft Exchange (including the Blackberry Enterprise Server for Exchange), POP3, IMAP, Hotmail, MSN Mail and multiple profiles. At least 20MB of free disk space is needed for installation, and 10MB thereafter for running the InBoxer application.

Inboxer does not support Outlook Express.

[Shane Drew]

I only have one version of office which comes with outlook. If there is another way, I am all ears 😛

[Chris Dowd]

quote Dave Rowland:

Outlook’s the way to go shane… Have you Microsoft Office installed? I dont see any harm of giving this a go and there is an evaluation version..

Dave, Shane’s already got inboxer at home with Outlook, and says it’s very good and would recommend.

The problem he has (and I’m sure you can help) is changing his work PC from Outlook Express to Outlook!

Shane, I run inboxer on my home and work PC without any problems, but they are both on Outlook.

[D Major]

Shane & Sticky Mark – thanks for the info. It’s been irritating for a long time all the spam. I’ve just added a couple of message rules & will be blown out if this really works!

Cheers,
Dick

[D Major]

Hey guys and gals – what can I do about this one ???? My name is the popular nickname short for Richard, ie. Dick, but whenever I include it the forum thinks I’m swearing. Can forum moderator sort it out??

[Marcella Ross]

quote D Major:

Hey guys and gals – what can I do about this one ???? My name is the popular nickname short for Richard, ie. (oh i swore !), but whenever I include it the forum thinks I’m swearing. Can forum moderator sort it out??

:rofl: …. sorry for laughing…. but it is funny! What about D1ck? 😀

[Shane Drew]

I’d be just as happy to call you Major. Got an air of authority about it 😉

[David Rowland]

i wonder if rob and audrey sat round the computer one evening and tried to think of every ‘bad’ word that could be said here. :lol1:

[Marcella Ross]

quote Dave Rowland:

i wonder if rob and audrey sat round the computer one evening and tried to think of every ‘bad’ word that could be said here. :lol1:

…. I bet I could think of one they missed! 😀

[Shane Drew]

quote Marcella:

…. I bet I could think of one they missed! 😀

I only think pure thoughts Marcella, I can’t think of any 😕 😳

[Stephen Morriss]

I use spambayers, it works on statistics and after a week or so training it’s very good, catches new spam etc, I get on average over 100 a day and I’m usually left with non in the inbox but I do have to check the suspect mail for good ones occasionally.

http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

Steve