RE: [APML] OT: spam blocking software

[Matt BenDaniel <matt@starmatt.com>]

I agree that the quantity of spam has gotten ridiculous; It seems like it's gotten much worse in the past few weeks. The spam I get that advertises anti-spam software smacks of "protection money" to me. I've just started using SpamCatcher. Seems to work. Anyone else using SpamCatcher?

BTW on pop-up stoppers, I tried a few them last year, but they kept interfering with sites I like to use (e.g. ebay). The authors of the anti-popups assert that you can manually configure to fix such problems, but too much manual intervention was required, so I just forgot about anti-popups altogether. Do they work better now?

Here's another issue: spybots. If you have not taken any provisions to fight these things, they're almost certainly active on your computer. They report on your activities to their "masters" out on the internet, potentially reporting on almost everything you do. These should be illegal. I just ran a free anti-spybot program called  SpyBot S&D (http://www.safer-networking.net/) that found a huge infestation of these parasites on my computer (I'm somewhat promiscuous on the internet), and at my consent, it wiped out all of them. My computer runs noticeably faster now. Who knows what private info I've already leaked out to who knows who. Anti-Virus software (e.g. norton, mcaffee) do NOT block spybots.

Matt

At 10:33 05-05-03 -0700, Bill Beeman wrote:
>I recommend Cloudmark's Spamnet.  It has been free in the beta version,
>but looks like they are moving to a small charge.  In any event, I will
>stay with it.  It is highly effective, and, most importantly, has a
>vanishingly small false positive rate.  Given the volume of spam that I
>see here I don't want to have to spend the time to comb through the
>rejected mail folder to look for stuff that was dumped but was not spam.
>www.cloudmark.com
>
>The downside is that it works only with Outlook, although a version for
>use with Outlook Express is due shortly.
>
>Good Luck!
>
>Bill Beeman
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org
>> [mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org]On Behalf Of Bobby Middleton
>> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 5:15 AM
>> To: astro-photo@seds.org
>> Subject: [APML] OT: spam blocking software
>>
>>
>> You guys have any suggestions for good spam blocking
>> software? It's past
>> totally ridiculous.
>> Bobby Middleton

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Matt BenDaniel
matt@starmatt.com
http://starmatt.com

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