Surfing the internet and at the same time protecting your email accounts from spam is a rather difficult undertaking today. I would like to indicate the best program to eliminate spam, that is all junk mail, unsolicited advertisements and beautiful company, however, this time, to indicate one or more programs that can give 100% protection security is impossible.
The anti-spam filters and the software that deal with them are "self-learning", that is, they continuously adapt the evaluation criteria based on what they have received in the past and what the user possibly indicates as unwanted, then crossing their data and statistics with the online ones of the other antispam servers.
Limiting junk e-mail is however possible and depends very much on everyone's attention not to spread their E-mail address and the degree of protection used on their PC.
Two basic steps are, without any doubt, having a good antivirus (Perhaps in this context the best is the Kaspersky Suite) and a good antispyware; two recommended steps are to pay attention to rootkits and install an excellent firewall.
The most important recommendation not to spread your email address is to let friends who write to us keep the email addresses of the recipients of their messages covered, especially in cases where there are many recipients.
This foresight is very simple as it is enough to write the recipients of an email message in the CCN field instead of on the To: or CC:
One of the best Antispam programs for Windows, XP or Vista, is Spamihilator which works with practically all email clients (Outlook, Thunderbird etc.) and for the main ones the configuration is automatic.
Spamihilator has a significant set of predefined spam filters, and while the program is rarely updated, the filters are updated often.
The greatest advantage is represented by the Self Training function, that is the possibility to learn from us which are the 'good' messages and which are the spam ones.
The most efficient program is SpamBayes.
Unfortunately, the graphical interface is non-existent, there are few instructions (moreover in English), and the need to train it for a hundred emails before it works properly, however, is the best recognized antispam software to date.
UPDATE : From Cesare's report and subsequent tests, PopFile with Bayes filter and updated to 26 May 2008 in its latest version must be reported as the best antispam software .
NOTE : when using anti-spam software, you must be very careful because, being never too precise, you risk losing important emails and having to look at both the anti-spam folder and the inbox folder every time.
Among the most famous email accounts, I would recommend the Yahoo Mail, whose spam filter seems to be more efficient than the others.
The Spam problem is still very open and, in another article, there are the basic instructions to block spam via Email and filter the inbox against advertising .
Get down there with the advice and your experiences.
