• PC based spam filters
• Anti-spam Resources
• Anti-virus Resources
• Mac based spam filters
• Linux based spam filters

This free version of MailWasher has become very popular as a means of removing spam from your email account before downloading. This version is limited to one email account and doesn't support HoTMaiL accounts.

SpamWeed works with almost any Windows based POP email client e.g. Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express and uses advanced statistical analysis to detect spam. SpamWeed constantly learns as you use it and can provide over 99% accuracy in detecting spam.

The premium version of MailWasher. Offers many advanced features over the free version including MSN/HoTMaiL support, multiple email accounts, optional access to centralised fingerprint database.

A free proxy application that sits in-between your existing email application and your email server. All emails you download are processed through SpamPal and tagged if identified as spam making it easy for you to identify/automatically delete.

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.

One of the most heralded articles about spam and Bayesian filtering. Could be considered as the one that brought Bayesian to the masses.

An advanced JavaScript based email link encoder that allows you to display your email address on the web without fear of being harvested.

A popular range of anti-spam services including a free spam reporting service, filtered email accounts and site-wide filtering options using their very own blacklists. Your existing ISP/email filtering software may already use SpamCop blacklists!

A USENET newsgroup based upon the topic of email abuse (spam and viruses in particular). If you're a newbie to USENET or email abuse then lurk and tread lightly before you jump in!

A free service that allows you to sign up and assign an email address to a URL. This URL can then be used by humans to send emails to you. Spambots following the URLs shouldn't be able to get hold of the associated email address.

A free service offering disposable email addresses that foward to a specified address for a period of time from 24 hours to 8 days. After the time period has expired the disposable address will no longer function.

List of websites featuring server-based scripts that produce random addresses on the fly, the aim of which is to fill spammer's email harvests with garbage.

Information about and for battling spambots (email harvestors).

Check whether or not any email addresses can be harvested from your website using this online tool.

If you're a home user you can download and use this excellent free version of AVG anti-virus scanner. This anti-virus scanner is well received due to it's ability to automatically update it's own virus definitions - a feature often only with paid anti-virus software.

Think you may have found a virus on your computer or in your email? Want to check it against a database of known viruses?

Test your PCs defence capability by taking a port-scan test to see where you're exposed. This is a good way to test your firewall configuration is functioning.

SpamSieve gives you back your inbox by bringing powerful Bayesian spam filtering to popular e-mail clients. It learns what your spam looks like, so it can block nearly all of it. It looks at your address book and learns what your good messages look like, so it won't confuse them with spam.

The immensely popular Mailwasher Pro has, at last, been released for the Mac.

The immensely popular Mailwasher Pro has, at last, been released for the Linux.