What Spam Filter or Protection are you using?

[Karsten]

Spam is bad... so how do you protect yourself. Share your expiriance and help us with your Wisdom! :beer:

 

[jfall]

I don't get any spam in e-mail, I have my own domain and never sign up for anything with it. I browse with IE 6 all the latest updates, and a good popup blocker. Pretty much spam free

 

[Anubis]

the obe built into Outlook

 

[leung324]

myrealbox.com

 

[rudder]

POPfile

 

[Karsten]

Was Popfile hard to setup?

 

[LordThing]

Right now I use MailWasher

You can also go for CloudMark's Spamnet.

The strength and weakness of spamnet is the fact that the spam filters are community based. That means if I mark something as spam, it will be marked as spam for anyone else that uses spamnet. This can cause some false possitives for those who abuse the system and mark everything spam.

 

[narzy]

spamnet rocks, but there is a subscription fee, look around for the beta link as its free if you use the beta software, atleast for the time being.

 

[narzy]

Originally posted by: LordThing
Right now I use MailWasher

You can also go for CloudMark's Spamnet.

The strength and weakness of spamnet is the fact that the spam filters are community based. That means if I mark something as spam, it will be marked as spam for anyone else that uses spamnet. This can cause some false possitives for those who abuse the system and mark everything spam.

there are safegaurds in place to prevent abuse, also, just because ONE person marked it as spam, doesn't automaticly make that message spam for everyone, there have to be a substantial amount of votes to mark it as spam.

 

[LordThing]

I guess spamnet has gone pay now too.

 

[Yossarian]

mailwasher

 

[pyonir]

i don't use anything.

 

[LordJezo]

The delete key.

 

[chr6]

i do it the hard way i guess, allow only certain people to email me, block all others? hey, it works.

 

[ggavinmoss]

Spamnet.

-geoff

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: Karsten
Was Popfile hard to setup?

Easy to setup, but the program has to be "taught" to catch the difficult to detect spam. By teaching I mean sometimes you have to manually classify email if it gets in the wrong folder. The program learns from those mistakes.

 

[edmicman]

spamassassin rocks

 

[Karsten]

Anybody know a good review / test of these? Would be interesting to see how they compare.

 

[Karsten]

Maybe someone has not seen this bump

 

[coolVariable]

I would love to have an outlook plug-in that doesn't even download spam emails from the server ...

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: coolVariable
I would love to have an outlook plug-in that doesn't even download spam emails from the server ...

Outlook 2003 has that built in....have to be connecting to an Exchange 2000 or 2003 server though.