Any good SPAM FILTERS out there?

Question

Yahoo's spam filter doesnt seem to be doing a good job of keeping out spam (or preventing it from coming back). I prob get more spam daily than I do regular emails.

I went to the spam protection settings and it says you can have up to 500 blocked addresses..........Ive already filled ALL those up, so what now? Is it pointless to keep marking as spam if theres no more room?

Is there any other way I can filter out this crap? Any kind of filters I can download? This is just really getting on my nerves and I want it to stop.

Answer 1

One option is to clear out some of the spam addresses and block by domain as opposed to user. For example, if you see multiple spam emails coming from Yahoo.com.hk, and you haven't any Yahoo contacts using a Hong Kong Yahoo account, go into the Block Addresses, delete all the applicable individual addresses and just add the domain (ie: yahoo.com.hk). You can recover room in the block list that way.



Below are some other hints that you can apply as best practices to help minimize the spam. Unfortunately no one product is foolproof but maybe some of the suggestions below may help.

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You shouldn't open unsolicted email from unknown sources. Often what happens is that when you open up spam, it sends back a trigger to the originating source indicating that a valid email address has been found thus subjecting you to even more spam down the road. Even using the preview pane in email products sends web beacons back to spammers.( http://helpdesk.gwu.edu/mailfilter/spam.html )



Here are a few steps you can take to try and avoid spam.



1. Don't open unsolicited Spam. Often what happens is that when you open up spam, it sends back a trigger to the originating source indicating that a valid email address has been found thus subjecting you to even more spam down the road.



2. Don't use the Preview Pane for the same reasons as #1. Also adjust your email options not to automatically open up email messages. Set it so that after you finish reading one email and take the necessary action you return to the inbox and not open the next one.



3. Set you email options to accept mail from only people in your address book or safe lists.



4. Set some filters to automatically route spam to certain folders for easy deletion later.



5. Use a throwaway account for any online registrations you need such as news sites and contests, etc. Often these email addresses are sold to other places, particularly advertising firms. If the throwaway account gets over run, you can simply delete it and create another.



6. Use the BCC when composing emails and encourage your friends to do the same. What this does is protects mailing lists from email harvesters.



7. You can consider using a third party application such as SpamFighter (free version can only be used for 1 account and it is for Outlook and Outlook Express only) http://www.spamfighter.com/ . Mailwasher is also a good antispam tool. http://www.mailwasher.net/



8. Never reply to any spam email that you happen to open and receive for the same reason as #1 above.



You can see more info at the webpage below:



http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-007.html

Answer 2

junk mail filters do the interest of sorting digital mail into 2 folders: inbox and bulk. the rationalization that filters do not right away delete any digital mail, is that some actual digital mail might finally end up interior the junk mail, and if its substantial, eg on line order or starting to be a member of a paysite, then you definately might desire to obtain that digital mail for password and so on, regardless of the clear out seeing this as junk mail. you may then choose the digital mail as "not junk mail". sometime it occurs that the occasional junk mail slips via to the inbox. in simple terms delete it. with regard to the majority mail folder you may delete manually after checking for the remarkable actual emails, or after a week or era which you specific, it deletes all emails in junk mail folder.

Answer 3

Do you have Norton Internet Security ?????



Anti Spam option is available and you can install it at free of cost.(if you have Norton Internet Security)





NORTON 360 ---- http://service1.symantec.com/Support/custserv.nsf/docid/2007021308572546