>
>> I'm not seeing any exceptional amount of spam emails. Earthlink has a
>> fairly vigorous spam
>>filter at the server level also, plus I have the additional spam filter that
>>I can manage. What I
>>am seeing, though, is an increase in the number of emails that have viruses
>>attached. Earthlink
>>quarantines those and sends an email notice. Earthlink has its problems at
>>times, but their spam
>>filtering is above average.
>>
>
>My mail server offers spam filtering but I don't make use of it since
>I'd have to log on to the server to check what it's doing. I prefer to
>download the mail and let Thunderbird do the spam filtering. It was
>pretty efficient at doing that until the latest round of very different
>spam started arriving. I probably get 20 or more spam messages/day but
>Thunderbird (at the moment) is only catching about 50%. But it does get
>better as it learns about the new crop.
>
These server-level filters would be more effective if they were to examine
the headers and filter out specific host servers. Many of these spammers will
change their addresses daily, making adress-based filtering ineffective.
Earthlink recently added a small wildcard option to the user spam filter, so
that I can now eliminate anything having .info and other such spam sources.
I also have an additional vector for filtering out emails. I view my
inbox at the webmail level, delete anything I'm not interested in, read what's
left, then save the ones I want to download with POP3 in a separate folder.
Much more efficient than downloading everything since I do that with dialup.
BTW: I may have a solution for continuing to use my Win98/SE machine for
webmail. I've downloaded Firefox 2.0.0.20, which is the very last version for
Win98/SE. I'll install it later and give it a try. I read a lot of comments
from others who had done this and it sounds like it will save me from having to
take a few days to build up a WinXP office machine on short notice.
I have two sources for old software: Oldversion.com and Oldapps.com.
Pretty handy, though they don't have everything. I still use PKZIP 2.0 as it
was the last version that did not incorporate BACKWEB.EXE, which is (or was)
used by a lot of spyware to send keyloggings, etc. back to the spyware host.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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