How Do I Stop Receiving Spam Emails?
I often have people ask me the simple question, “How can I stop these spam emails?” I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed but in IT the short / simple questions users ask quite innocently are the hardest and longest questions to answer. After about the 100th time I’d heard this question I decided to put together a list of advice which I’m including below. 1. Check if your ISP has a facility to filter out spam before you receive it. 2. Check if your anti virus software has an option to enable spam filtering. If it doesn’t it may have a low cost upgrade to a version, which includes spam filtering. 3. If you are using Microsoft Outlook Express as your email client upgrade to the Open Source Thunderbird email client from the team who brought you the Firefox web browser. This includes an excellent spam filter and it’s free of charge. 4. Have two email accounts. For example you can easily set-up an account on G-mail and another on Yahoo. Use one for personal or business use and use the other w
