Author Topic: Can anyone recommend a good spamkiller? (Read 3431 times)

supersprout · « **on:** January 17, 2007, 13:36:01 »

Time to put down the drawbridge!
Does anyone know of a good spamkiller that will only let through a) people I know, and b) people who respond with an email to be allowed through to my inbox?
I use the McAffee spamkiller to the highest filter, but still get around 25 of these messages every day.
Someone told me there are a number of shareware apps about, but I don't want to get in a muddle!
Any ideas O teccies please? ::)

tuinman · « **Reply #1 on:** January 17, 2007, 13:54:27 »

try SPAMfighter its free and pretty good

http://www.spamfighter.com

Curryandchips · « **Reply #2 on:** January 17, 2007, 14:05:20 »

My advice for a spam free email environment is googlemail, I think this was mentioned elsewhere ... it can be linked into outlook express or whatever, I use it as my primary email address now, and find it very useful, and over several months I have never had a single spam email ! It also has a near infinite online memory so you can just archive your emails ...

Derek :)

supersprout · « **Reply #3 on:** January 18, 2007, 06:42:09 »

Thank you both :)
tuinman, I loaded spamkiller and it's doing the biz already!
Thank you so much :D
SSx

glow777 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 18, 2007, 08:01:07 »

Out of interest SS you could do what you wanted by using OExpress message rules
But would be a bit annoying to set up if you had lots of contacts
Glow

tim · « **Reply #5 on:** January 18, 2007, 08:42:24 »

Don't these filters merely put the stuff into a dustbin which you then have to check in case things have slipped past - & then delete??

supersprout · « **Reply #6 on:** January 18, 2007, 09:12:28 »

Glow - it was so frustrating, I thought I had McAfee and OE configured against spam, but it started arriving in bucketsful over the last few weeks >:(

Tim - yes - there's a folder where blocked spam goes. It's useful to have a safety net to check what's been blocked, and pick out the odd stray that's mistaken for spam. I'd prefer it moved to a folder than to be confronted by spam in my inbox and have to pick through it and delete ::) Any spam not filtered out at the Receive stage can be blocked manually and the sender's mail will go into the spam folder in future.

Worst case? Uninstall ;D

For now I'm dead chuffed, only installed yesterday a'noon and it's caught 47 spams :D

kenkew · « **Reply #7 on:** January 18, 2007, 09:41:31 »

Quote from: Curry on January 17, 2007, 14:05:20

My advice for a spam free email environment is googlemail, I think this was mentioned elsewhere ... it can be linked into outlook express or whatever, I use it as my primary email address now, and find it very useful, and over several months I have never had a single spam email ! It also has a near infinite online memory so you can just archive your emails ...

Derek :)

Me too, 'Curry'. I swapped from Express to Google due to it freezing my 'puter. I love it..no spam and lots of extra's. Wouldn't be without now.

tim · « **Reply #8 on:** January 18, 2007, 11:52:53 »

I'm a bit simple here - if you've got to check it all & delete anyway, what do you gain??

supersprout · « **Reply #9 on:** January 18, 2007, 14:39:27 »

A clean inbox! For me, it's a Tidyness thing ;)

kitten · « **Reply #10 on:** January 18, 2007, 17:11:25 »

Off at a complete tangent, but ss where do you get your superb smileys?

supersprout · « **Reply #11 on:** January 18, 2007, 17:26:53 »

Aww thank you kitten :)
whenever I see a cute smiley I 'save as' to a smileys folder on my PC
to use, save them to Photobucket and post just like you post pictures :)

tim · « **Reply #12 on:** January 18, 2007, 18:07:39 »

Aha!! 31 day trial. What's the sign-up cost??

tim · « **Reply #13 on:** January 18, 2007, 18:29:28 »

Oh, now an e-mail saying that I'm on Pro for 30 days & then drop to Standard free! At which time I become a free ad platform for them with a sub on my e-mails.

And now, of course, I can't wait to see what the bin catches!!

macleaf · « **Reply #14 on:** January 18, 2007, 18:32:47 »

I use Google and Yahoo,which between them they block all the uneccessary junk,people who want to get through to me are on my special list,hence no problem

tuinman · « **Reply #15 on:** January 22, 2007, 15:20:07 »

spamfighter is still working well for me. before i was getting 60 spam per day, now only 1 or 2 sometimes get through and i block them strait away.

tim · « **Reply #16 on:** January 23, 2007, 09:22:22 »

Limitation with blocking, surely, is that every spam (certainly of the Viagra, Rolex, slimming, investment type is different?

Mine's imoroving - only missed one this am.

supersprout · « **Reply #17 on:** January 23, 2007, 10:54:56 »

Yes, mine seems to be learning too! Spooky! :o

tim · « **Reply #18 on:** January 23, 2007, 11:43:22 »

How I HATE not being able to correct my spelling 2 hrs later!!

supersprout · « **Reply #19 on:** January 23, 2007, 12:06:04 »

me too >:(

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