| If you are like me, each day you waste many | | | | send adds a little signature line promoting |
| minutes of your day wading through annoying spam | | | | SpamFighter to my email recipients. In the paid |
| messages in your email inbox. These messages range | | | | version, this does not happen. |
| from random advertising pitches, to Internet | | | | I'm not necessarily endorsing SpamFighter as the |
| pornography to cyber-criminals trying to get a hold of | | | | best free solution out there for individuals using |
| my sensitive financial data through phishing emails. | | | | Outlook or Outlook Express, but it worked for me. I |
| In my job as an Internet writer, I have about half a | | | | liked it because it a Microsoft Gold Certified partner |
| dozen email addresses that I monitor each day. It is | | | | and it did a good job of weeding out spam. As a |
| not an exaggeration to say that I get a combined 75 | | | | matter-a-fact, in the email account I tested it on it |
| or more spam emails to these email addresses every | | | | cut down my daily messages by 60 percent! |
| day. Well, at least I used to. | | | | My next step was to look for another option that |
| About three months ago, I decided enough was | | | | would work for my business-related email addresses. |
| enough. I set out on a quest to find ways to | | | | Since the goal for this was to find free anti-spam |
| mitigate the amount of spam hitting my inbox each | | | | programs, SpamFighter would not solve my problems |
| day. My first goal was to find free spam blocking | | | | on the business side. There are many other programs |
| software for my Outlook Express email program. | | | | out there that are free to use for businesses and |
| After some research and trying out a few different | | | | private use alike, but I found many too hard to setup |
| solutions, I actually settled on a program called | | | | and others were not so good at catching spam. |
| SpamFighter. If you are using it on private email | | | | In the end, I settled on using Google's Gmail platform. |
| addresses (which is what I tested it on), it is free | | | | I took my business related email addresses (which |
| software that works with Outlook and Outlook | | | | are all POP3 email addresses) and I ran them through |
| Express. Basically, it tests each email that hits your | | | | Gmail. Gmail has an awesome spam detection feature |
| inbox and then sends spam messages, advertising | | | | and it worked perfectly. It is also 100 percent FREE! |
| messages and phishing emails to your spam folder. | | | | As of today, my daily encounters with spam |
| The company that developed it offers a paid version | | | | messages has decreased considerably. Please |
| as well, but the free worked just fine for my needs. | | | | understand, no program or service can stop all spam |
| The only annoyance that made me consider | | | | messages, but these options did slow them down |
| upgrading to the paid version was that each email I | | | | considerably. |