70 or more spam emails a day with Hotmail & Outlook!!

I have found Cloudmark to be great with Outlook. You can download a free 30 day trial on their website, www.cloudmark.com, but after that you will have to pay for it.

You can change your spam setting in the options of hotmail(on the server)

or I would and did get rid of my hotmail account.

I have gotten a better email account.


Hope this helps.


Rick

Get hold of a Gmail account. If you don't already have an invite, you must know someone who has invites to give away. GMail is much much better than Hotmail or Yahoo mail with advanced features and extra storage. If you really can't find an invite, I can send you one.

Then tell you family and friends your new email address. Then (and this is the important bit) never put that address in any online form unless you're confident that you can trust whoever you're giving your details to. Almost all spam occurs because at some point you have given your email address to an unscrupulous company or individual who has then sold your details on.

Try mailwasher which has a good heuristic method for discovering scam. In addition you can blacklist e-mail addresses or domains in which case those e-mails will not only be deleted but optionally will be bounced back to the sender. The basic version is free and for a modest fee you can get the Pro version which allows you to monitor more than one mail account.

If you use Choice Mail and Outlook or Outlook Express

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I tried two popular spam blocking programs and it was almost impossible to keep up with the changing parameters. Finally, I tried www.cloudmark.com and I will stick with this. Cloudmark is a community of subscribers to a service that keeps an almost instantaneous data base of spam as it is sent. Each subscriber pays by the month or year and each contributes to the data base by spotting and blocking a spam message. How does that work? I get 75 to 100 spams a day. I turn on my Outlook and in come the spam, and almost as quickly as they come in they get dumped into the deleted message file or any other folder you designate. Occasionally a spam remains in the inbox. I highlight it, click on 'block spam' and it gets dumped but at the same time goes into the community database. As quick as the spammers change their parameters, the Cloudmark community catches and marks them as spam for automatic deletion. If you get a message that you want, that may be spam to others, but is not for you, you can click 'unblock' and the program will permit this messages from this particular sender to come in unscathed. There are lots of variables you can set up in the screening process. It really is a fantastic program, because you never have to worry about setting it up; the community does it for you. I have never had a good message designated spam and deleted. Thirty-nine bucks a year and worth every cent!

I have checked out numerous programs designed to control spam. After a two week vacation, I would find as many as 800 emails waiting, 90% spam or otherwise unwanted.
For me, the answer is a program called Mailwasher. Just Google the name to find the download. Mailwasher has many capabilities, but three go a long way to solve the spam problem. One, it gives you a quick preview of waiting mail BEFORE downloading to the preview pane. Checking unwanted ones eliminates them entirely before a full download. Secondly, it can be set to "learn" what kinds of email get regularly eliminated by you and will undertake automatic elimination for you. Thirdly, you can quickly add sources of repeated spam to an "enemies" list, excluding them before they get to either your preview pane or Mailwasher's editing screen. My 800 emails are reduced over two weeks to approximately 200, 80 of which I want and the rest unwanted. George McIntosh

I use only outlook Express and don't ever get any spam. I believe this is because I changed my email account name and email address from the original which I set up with my ISP when I first joined the net . I think ( though I might be wrong ) that this is why I get none .

Outlook and Outlook Express are POP3 email services so you must have one of the anti-spam software packages. I use Norton Internet Security 2006 which includes the anti-spam utility. However you MUST un-install ALL previous versions or you will have problems. After weeks of headaches I finally called Norton and went throught the notorious phone tree to speak to a real person in India. He directly me to a utility on the Norton web site that I downloaded and ran to clean all previous versions of Norton. Now I have my email address book loaded into the authorized email folder and it is 98% effective. Keep in mind that most spam emails are not text-based anymore because the spammers learned they can send the text as a dot.jpg (like a photo) preventing you from blocking specific text.

This is one of the most frustrating things in the computer world so don't let this get you down.

We have a cable modem and use Comcast. Inside of their own dedicated email program they will allow 20-40 emails per day of junque to come into your mail, and then they will "screen" another 30-50 but hold them for you to look at. It seems asinine that they can't catch more of them and filter them out. I've tried and tried to get them to work on it but they are totally unresponsive.

SpamBayes works great!I use the Outlook plugin.
I saved a temporary folder of a couple of days worth of junk mail and used my exisiting folders of good mail to train SpamBayes and it worked very accurately in the first day or two after I trained it.(sorry no exact numbers I started using it a realy long time ago)
It worked so well I introduced it to some of my co-workers who tend to have spam problems.
Netscape 7.1 also has an excellent bayesian filter built in! I have co-workers who have had great success with Netscape.

Bluesecurity is the way to fight spam, check it out at www.bluesecurity.com

I receive all my email in Yahoo, except at work where the really big corporation pays somebody else to keep the spam under control. With Yahoo Mail, I rarely get spam in my "Inbox". Yahoo routes it to the "Bulk Mail" folder where I can ignore it forever.

I also use the three services you mention and receive very little spam. I get 3 or 4 a day in Outlook Express to which only family and one organizations that I belong to know about. I use Qurb - www.qurb.com(PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005)which filters all spam or junk mail into a special folder.
In my hotmail accounts I do not get any junk mail because I have used their filter set to Exclusive - you will only receive e-mail from addresses appearing in your Contacts, service announcements from Hotmail, and messages you have consented to receive from MSN
Initially, Yahoo mail let much spam through but by constantly indicating which mail was spam very little comes through and instead goes into the Junk folder.

John

I have been using spampal for quite a while, its features include a Bayesian filter, public blacklists (DNSBL's), whitelists, an HTML filter, and more. It is totally configureable, meaning that you can choose to use all of the filters part of them and also change the level of scrutiny that each filter will apply to your emails.

For all of this you pay nothing, and also it is free of spyware