I keep getting loads of "Viagra" spam in my inbook in Outlook and the filters don't seem to be helping help!

Answer 1

Once your email address becomes known to spammers there is nothing you can do to stop it.

The only thing you can do is to use AntiSpam programs that will recognize known spam and send it to a spam folder.

My cousin uses an Antispam program that requires him to approve email allowed to go to his inbox. The program holds all new email addresses until he approves it to go to the Inbox. After that the email will go directly to the inbox. All the email not approved are "Bounced Back" to the last computer that sent it. This is great if the computer is hijacked and being used to send spam. The computer owner is alerted that he/she is getting back emails they never sent.

Most spam is sent through what is known as "BOT"s. BOTs are hijacked computers that have no or little protection. Security companies, Microsoft, and the Federal Government estimate 10+million computers are hijacked and used as BOT everyday. Many of these BOTs are networked through many different countries and ISPs. This make tracing the Spam back to the original sender very difficult. Most Spam is now being sent by Organized Crime organizations in Southeast Europe and Africa where corruption makes it difficult for U.S. authorities to get coorporation in stopping it.

Here are some sites where you can look at information about AntiSpam programs. They work with Outlook and Outlook Express. Free version usually provide lesser service than the pay versions.

http://www.spambutcher.com/spamblockingsoftware.html

http://netsecurity.about.com/od/emailspamblocking/a/aafreespam.htm

http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/comm/fwspam.html

Answer 2

You and countless millions around the globe. I use a product called Mailbox Dispatcher to help with this problem. It allows you to connect to your email accounts, download the header and first couple of lines so that you can review and delete them from your inbox before firing up Outlook/express. You can also whitelist and blacklist addresses and subjects. Have a look - it's freeware and has no ads.

http://www.anti-spam-tools.com/

Answer 3

I use Thunderbird Portable it has a very intuitive junk mail filter and I have installed a calender(Lightning) I find it better than Outlook. its called portable because it runs from a memory stick not the hard-drive so I can use my mail program anywhere on any machine and any operation system and it still holds all of my data.

It also has user definable mail filters which work very well

Answer 4

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Answer 5

You're not the only one, I don't think there's really that much you can do about it. In the future be careful who you give your email address to. I would say for friends and colleagues use outlook. But if your buying stuff or registering for something use yahoo/MSN/Lycos..

Answer 6

you can set up a rule. That says anything spelled viagra or whatever for that matter will go in your junk folder. Its under the tools menu.

Answer 7

My tip:

Set up a google account, direct your email into it and download your email from that, their spam filter is excellent!

Answer 8

Ooo! Thats a hard one!
I wouldn't worry it wears off after a few hours!
Gives you terrible heart burn though!

Answer 9

Buy some, it's great.