Rubbish emails.

[aceduce0]

How do we stop rubbish emails on our comp. Just come back from holiday and my husband had to scrub 7 pages of rubbish. What can we do?

[BillyNoMates]

Sadly not a great deal. Your ISP may have filtering which can be tweaked - I use Blueyonder and they allow you to set your own SPAM filtering level.

Other things are good practice such as NEVER registering to a website with your real/main Email address, or giving it out.

NEVER reply to SPAM Emails as this only confirms that your address is valid. Get a free Email address from Yahoo or MSN and use that for websites etc.

Over time SPAM will increase on any mail account. There are programs such as Mailwasher but I am sceptical to their worth.

I am sure others will have other/more ideas.

[aceduce0]

You have lost me. I am nearly 60 and find things hard to understand. not very technical. isn't there anything simple.

[Rock'n'Roll]

Hotmail and Yahoo have a filtering system,only really useful if your getting a lot from same address. \you can then direct them to bulk folder where they stay for a ddesignated time before being zapped. They do not count to your memory allocation. Also yahoo as a holiday response option. Not sure if it prevents mail arriving between your specified dates or just informs sender your unavailable as a hint to refrain from dending

[potterfan3]

Like Billy said, not at alot, just select them all and put them in your junk mail folder

[wendyl]

I have used a programme 0spam.com (pronounced zero spam although being even more senior than yourselves I still say oh)for quite some time which separates out spam is quite straightforward to set up incudes a free version

[peanut]

OK heres what i do, get a second e-mail like a yahoo account or something and give that adress to anyone you dont wish to get e-mail from like when you order things online or whoever requires an e-mail adress for whatever reason. Then set up a new account with your isp and give it to friends or family only. This works for me, all crap mail goes to yahoo and the good mail comes from my isp. Ive never had an unwanted e-mail.

[fo3nix]

aceduce: what email system do you use? the one your ISP supplied you with, or hotmail, yahoo, etc.?

[wendyl]

Forgot to say very much support the suggestion of having a separate email address for other than personal friends and spam has actually been less of late

[SpyWriter]

Outlook express is useful for filtering senders and words in the title

[ugly_bob]

Try spam arrest. Every time someone sends you an e-mail, it will send them one back telling them to reply if tehy are a real person. Their address will then be saved as an allowed address, and they won't have to do it again.
It costs around �2/month, and here's a link for a free 30day trial
http://www.spamarrest.com/tryit/index.jsp?1150 748295157

[aceduce0]

We are on Ntl World but also have hotmail as well

[henrys]

i used to get a lot nof them
i changed my user name
and pass
i put a number in front of user name
do not subscribe now
to anything
2 months no spam
using fire fox
maybe that bhelps

[camioneur]

I was in the same boat till I found Cactus..it's free, you have to train it but that's easy and I think you'll cope with the level of tech. Once trained, which will depend on the amount of both good and bad mail you get, you'll never have a problem..well I don't

http://www.download.com/Cactus-Spam-Filter/300 0-2382_4-10412203.html?tag=lst-0-2

[fo3nix]

If you were in control of your own email system, you could install a bayesian spam filter such as DSPAM. This is about as good as it gets, once trained.

Since you're not, you're pretty much left to either accepting whatever spam measures NTL and hotmail give. Your NTL is probably a POP account? If so you could check it with Thunderbird for example (http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird), which has a pretty decent spam filter once you've trained it for a while. That way your spam will at least end up in a special purpose spam folder, and not with the good email.

If you know someone on gmail (or maybe someone here will invite you?), get a gmail account. Does the same job as hotmail does, but it's far superior (including having better spam filters).