Mom is getting lots of spam email, what can I do to minimize it?

Question

My mother is getting a lot of spam email and has been complaining about it for a while (can't blame her), anything I can do to cut down on the spam? She uses outlook express with a cox.net address.

Answer 1

call your internet provider asked for assistance on how to filter the spam. some internet provider filter the port on your email servers to avoid spam. what you needed is an anti spam software to be installed on your pc.

Answer 2

I don't know about cox.net's filtering abilities - I know *my* ISP is one of those cheapo outfits that makes itself inexpensive by charging a la carte - each and every little thing. So, what I'm saying is, we haven't bought their spam filtering service! If cox.net has one free, your best bet would seem to be to set up some filters there and catch the spam before it even gets as far as the download to O/E. (Sounds like they're not doing a good job of filtering on their own!)

Another way, might be, get an invitation from someone to gmail and forward you coxmail there. Your mom wouldn't have to change her email address, but you'd set up her Outlook Express pop/smtp to download from gmail instead of cox. The advantage? gmail has excellent and adaptive spam filtering. (I don't know whether Yahoo!'s spam filtering is as sophisticated - I haven't tested it, but you *could* set up the same sort of forwarding...)

Finally, the alternative is to buy some sort of software to lay into O/E to fetch spam agressively. I don't know if Norton does this (as it does for Outlook). I'm sure there's something out there. (Excuse my ignorance. I do all my email online these days...)

Answer 3

my mother gets it too and well the best way is changing her email. and never give out your email to sits unless necessary. but there really is no way unless you have a spam filter. just so u know the guy who invented spam is in the Guinness world record books and he never regrets making spam