Was gone for the weekend at the MWC and I come home to 50 e-mails in the inbox. 40 of them are spam. I've had enough.

I've had good luck with IHateSpam.

At work I'd get like 220 emails a day. No I don't surf porn (at work), I was just one of the lucky guys to have his email address posted on the company website long ago... IHateSpam would knock that down to about 10 a day.

http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=930

It's cheap, $19.95 for the first year, 50% renewal after that. It also works with POP3 and MS Exchange servers.

My favorite is from download.com, it is called ad-aware and it is completely free, and you can update it like you would anti-virus. Works great. Good luck!!

One other thing I should add about the IHateSpam software. I've been using it for like 8 months now and I've probably only had like 15 false positives. That's not to shabby for 8 months @ 220 messages per day.

Oh yea, they also have a free trial period.

My mail server admin uses spam assassin. It works pretty well. I get a LOT of spam to some of my accounts and it cuts it down to 1-2 a day at most. I haven't even bothered using some of the advanced features (like training) yet. Every time I check my spam folder I have tens of megabytes of spam. (!!)

Adaware hasn't nothing to do with spam. It deletes spyware from your system. The easiest thing to do is to change your email address and start fresh. I like having public and private email address. You use one email for correspondance with friends and family and use the other for everything you do on the web.

After that server-side spam filtering by your email provider is the best bet. Finally, you could use the spam filtering built in to many email clients. That alone may make your email more manageable.

Why pay anything to can spam? What a bunch of crap. Get a new email address at your email ISP.
ALWAYS use numbers as the start of your email address and end it with numbers.
The spam MF's will be a long time hitting you with their crap unless you expose that address in a public site... Most ISP's allow you 5 different id mailboxes. Use them. If you start getting spam, just delete and use another new one.

Cooley