Spam Filters
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Spam Inspector www.giantcompany.com
Spam Inspector offers award-winning spam protection integrated directly into Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, IncrediMail and Hotmail giving you the power to clean your inbox, protect your family and fight back against spam.
And from an article in NetGuide by Nigel Horrocks, May 2002.
While you will find quite a range of anti-spam software online, here are
the two we've found to be most effective at flagging the majority of spam,
which you then delete before it gets into your email inbox. We found that these programs captured almost every spam message in our inboxes, but on occasion they incorrectly regard as spam, some email from people we wanted to hear from. So it does create more work – you have to go through the list of flagged spam mails so you can quickly deselect any mail you want to receive. We found the same happened when we set up filters with our Hotmail service.
Spam Buster
www.contactplus.com
Spam Buster is available as an ad-supported free version and a paid version ($AU39.95), available for purchased online. The ad-supported version is identical to the paid version, but features a series of rotating ads that appear at the top of the program’s main window. Happily, this program does not use spyware to display the ads. The ads are just that – simple text ads that link you to the Web page that has more information. Easy to use and set up, Spam Buster is a worthy download.
Spam Killer
www.spamkiller.com
This program is available as a 30-day free trial, or can be purchased online for $US29.95. The program is quite similar to Spam Buster in operation and effectiveness.
Setting up a mail filter in Outlook Express
1. Start by setting up a new folder for your junk mail to be automatically moved to. Click on File, New, Folder, then rename this folder “Junk Mail”
2. Next, click on Tools
3. Click on Message Rules
4. Click on Mail
5. The “New Mail Rule” box appears
6. Select the condition for your rule (step one in the “New Mail Rule” box)
- This includes looking for messages with specific words in the subject line and specific words in the message body amongst a range of other choices. We’ll specify which words in step seven.
- For example, messages with $$$ or “make money fast” (both terms commonly used in spam messages) in the subject line or message body will be picked up by this rule
- Set the actions for your rule (step two in the “New Mail Rule” box)
- This includes moving emails to a different folder, copying them, deleting them, forwarding them etc.
- We suggest moving it to the folder you created earlier called “Junk Mail”.
7. In the Rule Description section (step three in the “New Mail Rule” box) you need to specify which words you’d like filtered and specify which folder you’d like messages moved to. The options you can change are marked and underlined in blue. Clicking on these blue links opens up new boxes where you can customise these settings and specify which messages you’d like moved to where
8. Create as many new rules as you require, using the most common words and sentences you see used in spam email subject lines.
Find out more about setting up filters for email programs at www.dejazzd.com/help/support/email/mail_rules.php (Eudora) and www.websitetips.com/info/email_folders.html (Netscape).
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