Worrying Spam!

[Kelvin]

Unfortunately, I''ve had to get used to the fact that I recieve about 30 items of spam a day, ranging from V*agra + cial*s adverts to obvious phishing scams etc. Outlook express will identify most of these a spam and I've set a rule for them to be deleted, however, over the last few days or so the spam count has increased and I'm getting a lot of 'undelivered mail' notices for e-mails which I have not sent, the senders e-mail being similar, but not the same as mine. Has anyone encountered the same problem, and more importantly, discovered how to solve it?

[fo3nix]

Also consider using Thunderbird instead of Outlook Express. It works just the same, but has a bayesian spam filter that learns as you report spam, so can often spot new spam like you can. It's free.

[henrys]

firefox is better
no spam

[fo3nix]

henrys: I don't think you understand what spam is. Firefox is nothing to do with email.

[deso]

Use a utility like Mailwasher. You can check your mail before opening Outlook and blacklist senders addresses.

[stevie21]

Use Mailwasher (in conjunction with Thunderbird, rather than Outlook) if you have POP3 email access (or hotmail). Use gmail otherwise.

I get hardly any spam at all *in my inbox* - very rarely