K9 and filters

        To find out how you've gotten on spam lists and the like, take a look at:

http://www.SpamPrimer.com

        If you don't want to see them anymore, you might be interested in the 
filters that "learn".  There's several that are very "full featured", but since
I already have a very extensive filter list for all the e-mail lists I get,
that wasn't what I needed.  It's just that my SP@M filters weren't catching all
of it - especially the HTML ones.

        Enter K9.

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"K9 is an email filtering application that works in conjunction with your
regular POP3 email program and automatically classifies incoming emails as spam
(junk email) or non-spam without the need for maintaining dozens of rules or
constant updates to be downloaded. It uses intelligent statistical analysis
that can result in extremely high accuracy over time.
K9 learns from its mistakes and becomes better and better at being able to
identify spam. More importantly it learns to recognize what you consider to be
spam."

        Oh - and it's free.  99.6% accuracy now that I've got it trained - 
and it had 95% accuracy within the first week.  Thought you might be interested.

http://keir.net/k9.html

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Parasites

I just spent three hours ridding a co-worker's system of these baddies.  This
site has a scan as well as detailed removal instructions.

http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/

"Parasite" is a shorthand term for "unsolicited commercial software" -  that
is, a program that gets installed on your computer which you never asked for,
and which does something you probably don't want it to, for someone else's
profit.

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Home PC security

http://www.cert.org/homeusers/HomeComputerSecurity/

A step-by-step guide to home user computer security from CERT, with checklists
and worksheets to keep track of your progress!