On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 06:44:56 +0000, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > I've been asked to help out someone who is slightly vurnerable and > is > receiving large volumes of spam. She is finding the content or > titles a bit > upsetting. Not being computer literate, she's probably unaware that > it's > "nothing personal" and that she is a random target along with > hundreds of > thousands of others. > > I plan to have a chat with her and look at her setup and see if > there's > anything that I can do. Apart from some words of re-assurance I'd > like to > check for a few other things while I'm there; virus scan / spyware > scan for > example. However, on the spam issue all I know about is Linux and > Spamassassin so I need to do some homeowork on what tools are > available for > the Microsoft platform. Could anyone provide me with any pointers > or sites > that might get me started? The only utility I've heard of is > mailwasher and > that seems to get mixed reviews. It's not my intention to start a > long OT MS > anti-spam thread; I'm really just looking for sites to start > researching. > > Thanks, > > Dougie
Hi, If you want to set up SpamAssassin on Windows then check out: http://www.openhandhome.com/howtosa.html If you want any easier method of using SpamAssassin then check out the commercial program SAProxy (basically a Windows wrapper around SpamAssassin): http://www.statalabs.com/products/saproxy/ If you're looking for good free Bayesian filters then check out K9, SpamPal, Popfile and Spambayes: http://www.keir.net/k9.html http://www.spampal.org/ http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/ A free downloadable virus scanner is available from: http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php Free online virus scans are available from: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm The best (in my opinion) free spyware remover is Spyboy S&D: http://www.safer-networking.org/ You might also want to install her the free ZoneAlarm firewall: http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownl oad.jsp?lid=zadb_zadown And finally i'd ditch Outlook ;-) All the best, Mat
