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If you use Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Firebird its far better to view all your mail on a mail server before you download it to your computer. This is a worthwhile security approach, especially now that numerous emails can carry unwanted payloads onto your computer or try to get you to click a link that could take you to a fraudulent log in page of a ‘well known bank’. This practice is called ‘Phishing’ and is one of the fastest growing threats on the Internet. The threats often arrive in an email that contains a link taking you to a fraudulent Web site appearing to be valid (looking just like your bank or mortgage company) so that you’ll enter your personal information without realising what is really happening. The crooks aim to steal your valuable personal information such as user names, passwords, credit card numbers, and Social Security numbers. To combat threats such as this I use Mailwasher Pro on all my computers.

MailWasher is a spam detection and mail preview tool that allows you to check your mail on a web server and delete any spam before you download it to your local computer. It can notify you when new mail arrives and automatically mark suspicious messages, so you can preview and delete them.

There are 3 levels of spam detection, and you can specify your own filters. MailWasher also offers the option to exclude your friends from spam checking and check mail against public blacklists.

The free version of Mailwasher is limited to one POP3 email account. If you have more than one account you will need to purchase the Pro version of MailWasher.

Check this link for more detail about the paid version – http://www.mailwasher.net/frequently-asked-questions.

The Free version of Mailwasher can be downloaded here – http://www.mailwasher.net/mailwasher-free

However, PDF spam, which saw a surge in August, dipped last month. Image and e-card spam volumes also fell. Image spam went from 10 percent of total spam in August to seven percent in September.

While PDF, image and e-card spam has gone down in volume, text and HTML-based attacks “are still very much in the wild”, the report noted.

According to Symantec, 400,000 JavaScript-embedded spam messages were observed in a one-week period in September.

Source: ZDNet