I've been using Cloudmark SpamNet for the past couple of months, since non of the rules i made In OE worked.

Well anyway I find this app really good I still get one or two messages through but 90% of the time they're filtered with no problems.

I use the free SpamPal program available from: http://www.spampal.org

SpamPal is a spam filtering system whose main aim is to separate spam from the mail you really want to read, by filtering the spam into a separate spamtrap folder. You can then look through the messages in the spamtrap folder at a later date and once you're happy they are all spam, you can delete them!

SpamPal works as a POP3/IMAP4 mail proxy server, in other words, SpamPal sits between your email program and your ISP's server. When your receive an email, SpamPal processes the email you receive, works out if these messages are spam and then marks them as spam by adding **SPAM** to the Subject line and by adding a header, X-SpamPal: SPAM

This process is carried out, mainly, by comparing your emails against lists of known spam messages, using Public Blacklists (also called DNSBL lists) such as SpamCop

You can also use various additional plugins, such as the Bayesian and RegEx filters (providing a choice of SpamAssassin or Regular expression filters), to provide additional ways of detecting if a message is spam or not, without relying on the DNSBLs. Using the HTMLModify plugin, you can remove web-bugs from your emails and it will also rename (or delete) dangerous attachments (such as .bat,.scr and .pif), which usually indicate a virus!

SpamPal by default comes with a plugin called RegExFilter, which has a SpamAssasin ruleset and you can add your own rules (as long as you understand regular expressions)

SpamPal also has a Bayesian filter plugin, which is very good as stopping spam and it quick too.

One of the best plugins though, has to be HtmlModify (available from http://www.ib-hoebel.de/SpamPal/)

HtmlModify does many things:

a) it removes web-bugs (indicators hidden in your email spam that announce to the spammer you've read their email)

b) it renames dangerous attachments such as .pif/.scr/.bat etc, which could indicate a virus

c) it has a small md5 checksum database of known virus attachments, which if matches your attachment, will result in your attachment being killed (if you select the option to delete)

SpamPal download page: http://www.spampal.org/download.html
SpamPal plugin download page: http://www.spampal.org/plugins.html
SpamPal Manual: http://www.spampal.org/docs.html

Although HtmlModify shouldn't replace your anti-virus software, it certainly does help, in fact, it stopped the Bagel virus the other day, well before Mcafee updated their virus dat files !!

Go for it...

Steve

I am using this as a outlook add on

http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

over 95 % success

try it, it free....

I've used Spamnet for nearly a year now.
Its no nonsense and very good.
About 90% of emails are already tagged as spam. It checks a database populated by everybody running Spamnet and they have their own Spam tools on the server too.
Any Spam that does get through, highlight it and click block. Once enough people block it, it becomes spam too.

Works so well, I have no need to look at other solutions

http://www.dmaconsumers.org/consumers/op...emps.shtml

should help you stop spam from the legitamite companies.

I dont know what to make of putting my name on another list.
If these people get hacked, thats the biggest list ever!
If ever there was a list worth nabbing this would be it, even if its not used for emails, it would be worth a fortune!

Just my 2p's worth

how true never thought about that its a shame that some people/companies do not have any respect of at least some faireness ...
the scene is not that absurd you described above

mhhh....wtf...today i got a mail with a dailer....good to have a good antivirus prog *smile*

btw....I HATE SPAM !

but the most Spams are blocked by my Email-Provider

-Best way to prevent spam: run your own mailserver with dyndns for private emails. (you can easily change the address if receiving spam)
-Create another "fake" email account to register everywhere on the internet.

all you need it to be clever ... after I have deleted all my GMX and WEB.DE accounts and only kept my t-online account which I only used for important things like ebay and online shop registrations I do not recieve any more spam ... I have created 3 new gmail adresses which are for 1. important things 2. forum registration and last for anything that I do only need to do once which I do not care about and when this email gets spammed someday I simply delete it and create a new one