For years I haven't received any significant amount of spam due, I thought, to
an efficient at-source spam filtering by my ISP Tiscali. At one time you could
enhance your spam filters on your mail home page but this seemed to stop after
they introduced a chargeable spam and virus filtering at source. The problem
was so low that it wasn't even worth using Mailwasher. I don't really want to
subscribe to their chargeable method, even though the charge is very low, as I
don't need the anti-virus part of it due to my efficient AV on the PC.
Over the last week or so I have experienced a sudden upsurge of spam (now about
20 per day) and I can't understand what has changed. It is caught pretty
effectively (about 90% of it) by my Microsoft software and put into a spam
folder which is easy to delete but still I am concerned about the sudden influx
which used not to be a problem. Whether this is linked in some way to the
recent buy out of Tiscali by Car Phone Warehouse I'm not sure.
Has anyone else experienced a recent upsurge in spam and has anyone any
anti-spam suggestions other than returning to Mailwasher please?(I'm not
anti-Mailwsher just looking for newer alternatives).
Roger
