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"Ryan" <rgaffuri_at_cox.net> wrote in message news:<_YWab.64$0Z5.29_at_lakeread03>...
> "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message
> news:3f6af895$0$15781$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net...
> > "Ryan Gaffuri" <rgaffuri_at_cox.net> wrote in message
> > news:1efdad5b.0309190346.4666fb34_at_posting.google.com...
> > > Im up to 200-300 spam emails a day now. i see many of you posting with
> > > fake email addresses. How do i do that? from the web I can just make a
> > > yahoo account. How do I do it from home with outlook express?
> >
> > In addition to Connor's advice I can recommend spamnet from Cloudmark
> > http://www.cloudmark.com/products/spamnet/ I use this for my home account
> > and it has a very high detection rate and a pretty low false positive rate
> >
> >
> > --
> > Niall Litchfield
> > Oracle DBA
> > Audit Commission UK
> >
> >
>
> thanks.. the spam is getting ridiculous. I got 50-60 of the MS Corp Security
> Viruses yesterday alone.
474 when I opened my email. All of them caught by our corporate virus scanner which deleted the attachments, but it still delivers a message telling you that you had a message. They kept arriving all day though a few Outlook rules deleted them for me.
1- MS needs to write better code and 2- People need to keep their systems up to date for patches. Both of these statements were true 5 years ago, and unfortunately both will probably be true 5 years from now.