E-Mail (Spam) filtering....

From: David V. Corbin <dvcorbin_at_optonline.net>
Date: Thu Jun 17 22:33:25 2004

Alas, I have yet to find anything that "really" works for me.

I run a software consulting firm. On a fairly regular basis, I will get
either a forward or an attachment of a spam (or virally infected) message
from a legitimate client (potental, current or past) who will ask "How do I
get rid of these...."

Of course the person does not realize that they are being an idiot doing
this, but if I lose the message, I lose business......

The best I have come up with so far:

1) Auto file (NOT delete) all suspicious messages in a specific folder [I
use Outlook 2003]

2) Run my mail client from within a virtual machine [VMWare] with regular
backups and undoable disks.

Again my situation does NOT match that of most people.....

David
Received on Thu Jun 17 2004 - 22:33:25 BST