Best email/spam filter software and anti-virus

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Here's a shocking admission I work at IBM and here I am asking a computer related question!!! :thedummy Trouble is I have all this done for me, kind of mysteriously in the background.:)

Anyway the question

What is currently seen as the best software for SPAM avoidance, antivirus and firewall?

My dad, also a GSer is not very computer literate and has got used to Outlook Express but it seems it doesn't do anti spam very well.

His Norton firewall and antivirus has expired so it seemed like a good time to reconsider all packages before forking out for new subscriptions.
 
Just take a quick gander at lots of previous threads in this forum for a good list of 'freebies' and some you pay for.
 
Agree with Centaur...

But if you can't be ar**d to look, try these. ALL of these (free)...

ZoneAlarm
Spybot
AdAware
AVG antivirus

For Spam, try Spamfighter (good,not free, but cheap)

Plenty more out there if you must...
 
i bought McAfee security suite 2007 from ebay for £7.00.does everything in one package.its a cheap price to pay and one less thing to worry about.:thumb
complete with auto updates for the whole of 2007.
 
For products that consume spam: mailwasher or spamcop

Alternatively, for a cheap but effective solution simply bounce your email via a googlemail account. Set up the [email protected] to forward to gmail. Download the gmail account via POP3 to the email client of your choice. Once in a while visit the gmail account and have a poke around the spam filter folder to check that genuine emails have not been filtered out. If it has then stick the email address into the gmail address book which acts as a white list. Remember to set the from address in your email client to the "myaddress" account so that when you click reply the recipient sees you rather than the gamil filter account.

For spyware: Microsoft's own effort is okay; spybot is fine; lavasoft's ad-aware is good (free version is scan on demand only)

AV: I use Avast which I find more reliable than the free version from AVG (this gave me a fe false positives which was annoying).
 
wessie makes a good point re: spam. i have just started routing my email through the spam filtered account my ISP gave me years ago but i've never used :rolleyes:

works well. used to use mailwasher, but went off it when it mysteriously blacklisted my entire address book :confused:
 
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