Need a good, great spam blocker

Have given up on McAfee and Norton.
I have no problem on my laptop, use a hotmail acct. But on our PC we have 2 EMAIL accts through our ISP, GCI Alaska.
When we turn on the PC in the morning and open our EMAIL (outlook 7) we get between 150 - 200 spams. Needless to say, this is a royal pain.
Anyone know of any GOOD spam blockers software. I dont mind paying a fair price if it works.....
..........................Thanks.......Dennis........

 

Have you asked Twizz?

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Shaggie: Twizz? http://twizz.net/ Not quite what I had in mind.
If I was into ink, the one with the flowing cape and g-string would make an
interesting tatoo......
More info please............Dennis

 

Sorry, I don't know what came over me. I was referring to that other thread about spamming people.

I don't use outlook. If you pick a username with at least a few random characters in it, it cuts down on the spam. In Yahoo as a test I've set up accounts where the username is a common first name and last initial and let it sit there dormant. The spammers guess those types of names easily and there is spam when I check on it weeks later, even though I never used the account.

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a good way to block spam is with spam assassin set up on a linux (or other unix machine) that is a router between your lan and the internet - I have systems running with spam assassin that deliver 100% the correct mail with no "good" mail classed as spam, and with no spam classed as "good" mail. thats on systems that deliver 2000 emails a day with 35% being spam - theres a good way to use ordinary names that wont incur the penalty of being guessed by spammers and that is - when you set up the accounts use validation certificates so that your recipients will validate you against a certificate in your email and if the email headers class a spam as being areply from you they will be falsified by the fact they dont carry any validating certificate or validated by the fact that your reply certificates are contained in the email - its a good way of doing it if you have the time and if the number of emails you send or recieve per day is worth it

email certification is a possible way forward on new accounts

 

another way to filter the spam out is with... filters!

if you could, tell you email client to filter all incoming messages from certain recipients into a specified folder. that means, make all emails from family members go to a certain folder in your email client and all bussiness emails into a certain folder, friends in one, etc and so on. just add each non-spam, email address to go to a certain folder. all other spam emails will go to the normal place seperate from the email you want to recieve.

this way you can go strait to the emails you want to look at but you can still look and see if 'an old friend' has sent you an email that isnt on your filter list.