On Friday 26 Mar 2004 06:44, 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.
Until switching to Linux I was using K9 under windows which worked very nicely. It can be set up to use a DNSBL check and implements its own variant on bayes. http://www.keir.net/k9.html -- Regards, Bob
