Re: [PCTECH] Recommendations for Anti Spam software for PC

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul

There are many. I'm using MailWasher Pro. Latest version has Bayesian 
filters and learns from your actions. And it only displays email headers 
and text - no chance of infection. I have it set to check for emails 
every30 minutes, I think. then you review what gets there, then it starts 
your email client. You can make it a little more automatic. Go to 
<www.firetrust.com> for Pro, <www.mailwasher.net> for a free version 
without the learning feature. Both let you bounce messages back, although 
that probably just clogs the 'Net.

A good Windows list, LangaList, has recommendations from time to time. 
Check out Fred Langa at <www.langa.com>. Archives are to be found there.

Our ISP recommends subscribing to SpamNet. They use a thing called 
Barracuda to handle things at their end, but things still get 
through.  They even use SpamNet to consider what keywords to filter out.
At 06:18 AM 6/5/2004, you wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just wondering what recommendations you might have for anti spam software 
> that runs on the PC. My ISV is stopping about 150 a day but there are 
> still about 20 or so getting through.
>
> TIA
>
> Paul Tuohy