Today Lester Stiefel commented courteously on the subject at
hand
Do you use an ISP pop mail account? If so, go to their
start page and their web mail access. If they have email
spam filtering, by using address book friends listing, try
setting this up by uploading or copying your email
addresses into their address books. Then switch to their
spam filtering by invoking their address book. Look for a
setting "pass only emails from people in my address book."
or set to "suspect email" if on earthlink or brightmail.
This approach work well for me, removing most of this
insidious garbage. You can obtain a detailed summary of
email waiting in the trapped area from earthlink or peoples
pc systems on a daily or weekly basis and can review these
by going to their site periodically, and checking the
suspect mail folders for new allowed mail coming in, then
transfer to inbox/add to address book.
No. Comcast is my ISP and I long, long ago learned /not/ to
let any of their "protection" near my PC. That certainly
includes McAfee, parental safeguards, pop-up protection,
malware, scans, etc.
As I commented on earlier, it is problematical to try to keep
ahead of computer-driven spam bots by looking at their past
logs or creating filters. All I've ever succeeded in doing is
to accidently block E-mail I /did/ want, and didn't stop a
single spammer. Using your address book to reverse engineer a
spam rule will kill your friends who happen not to be in your
AB or friends who never E-mailed you in the past.
I don't recall the OP mentioning how many blank E-mails they
get a day. If it is small, just turning the Preview pane off
in OE and deleting the crap is the easiest, least troublesome
way. If they're getting hundreds per day, it is time for a new
E-mail addy, the bots have you zeroed in.
Just my opinion, YMMV...
