what's your favorite ad (or spam) defeating software?

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Both the Mozilla suite and Firebird web browser natively block popups.
http://mozilla.org

http://mozilla.org/frontpage/productIconMozilla.png

http://mozilla.org/frontpage/productIconFirebird.png

If for some dimented reason you prefer to use Internet Explorer consider installing the http://StumbleUpon.com toolbar; it also gives you access to an amazing community with quality url stumbling. (available also to Mozilla, Firebird, Netscape, on windows, mac, linux, and BSD)

http://www.stumbleupon.com/images/happyperson_toolbar.png

http://www.stumbleupon.com/images/osx_screen.jpg

Alternately install one of these to FREE local proxy filters:

http://proxomitron.info

http://www.proxomitron.info/images/iProxo.gif

or

http://privoxy.com

The former is best suited to power users. The latter is merely 300k under windows and has a flavor for every popular OS on the planet, but not as easily tweakable.

To "secure" email install a flavor of Disruptor: http://BestSpamSoftware.com

It uses ALL the greatest antispam technologies in one, easy to use interface. (easy regular expression builder for geeks)

OL for outlook
PI for outlook express or any POP3/IMAP client

both keep spiffy statistics with optional graphs of your spam

http://www.hlembke.de/prod/disruptor/images/stat2.jpg

After installing one of the mozilla web browsers grab yourself some extensions:

firebird:
http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions/

mozilla suite:
http://www.mozdev.org/logs/top50.html

edit: it seems images are in vogue here

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Ironically enough, I've found the new AOL mail to be quite good at blocking spam. 8.0 and up, that is. 9.0 gives some good features to it, too.

I have one spam email account, and one private 'main' account that I use. I also have a sprinkling of other accounts laying around, so if I'm worried about spam I use those.

As for Pop Up blockers, I've been using the Google Toolbar, and it works pretty good. Some flash popups get through, but it's few and far inbetween.

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If you're hardcore antispam you should get a free http://SpamGourmet.com account. Read their FAQ for directions. Wink

I, too, have multiple email accounts. It only takes a few minutes to track down the spammer. If everybody had a ZERO tolerance and retribution strategy there would be no serious spam problem!

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