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

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